> On Mar 4, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [..]
> Yes, I can fix this problem myself, that is not the issue. It is that this
> all seems to trip potential new users right at the start.
From what I recall (and I could be wrong), the vast majority of “new” users are
not running on bare metal. Mostly it get’s installed
into a virtual machine. That isn’t to say it is not a problem. Just saying it
isn’t how most users run FreeDOS.
> I would also wondering why the C: drive, though offered to be formatted, is
> at the same time not "SYStemized", including a baseline config.sys and
> autoexec.bat as well as a base FREEDOS folder before starting FDIMPLES to
> install further packages. To me, this seems to be the next logical step (and
> what I just did manually to move on on this system)...
>
Not sure what you mean.
If you are referring to why the kernel and the shell are not transferred
automatically to drive C: when the disk is formatted, there are several
reasons. Mostly, those are:
— some systems won’t boot into FreeDOS after a simple SYS. Sometimes more work
is required to make that happen. All of it is consolidated into a single par of
the installer to aid in simplifying the code some.
— the installer can run in advanced mode. when it does, that step is optional.
A user could for example in advanced mode, install just the FreeDOS binaries
onto PC/MS-DOS.
— most systems are (including VMs) are configured to boot the HD before the CD.
The installer wants to be sure the install process has completed before
committing the system to boot from the internal HD.
> Ralf
>
:-)
Jerome
_______________________________________________
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
