> On Mar 4, 2022, at 3:57 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > - it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions > and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand > made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p
When the installer verifies there is no drive readable to DOS and there is a drive that can be used that has NO partitions and that drive can be safely partitioned, it asks FDISK to please auto-partition the drive. There are no auto-partition options to make only one that uses the entire drive. So, it comes down to making everyone (including novices with no idea how to use fdisk) partition the drive manually or let fdisk do what it wants. It would be great if there were an option to just use the whole drive or only create the first 2GB partition. But there isn’t. If fdisk were updated accordingly, then the installer would do that instead. Without such an update to fdisk, I still think the benefits provided by auto-partitioning out weigh making everyone manually partition their drive. > - one of the installers took 20 minutes, but the legacy one was fast? He was talking about the FloppyEdition taking 20 minutes. This has to do with pass-through compression. However, the FloppyEdition is primarily designed to install from Floppy Diskette. When doing that, the largest bottleneck is actual floppy speeds. I have done performance comparisons on real hardware against MS-DOS 6.2. Obviously, different systems could yield other results and FreeDOS is much larger. To be fair, total time/total disks FreeDOS was about 5% faster. This is negligible and not usually worth mentioning. It could also be a little slower on other systems. But for all intents and purposes based on their size, install speed is comparable. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
