On 3/4/2021 12:36 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
On Mar 4, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com
<mailto: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.
Well, could you consider that this is likely an observation of a symptom
rather than the cause?
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.
I don't see how this would prevent the transfer of boot record, kernel,
command.com and a basic config.sys&autoexec,bat (and a basic FREEDOS\BIN
folder). If someone at this point chose to format the C: drive, I doubt
that there is any reason NOT to make this drive bootable (and at least
baseline workable, in case of an unexpected abortion of the install
process). That doesn't mean that the installer has to reboot at that
point, so the boot order of the system for example should not be an issue...
Ralf
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