---- Le ven., 05 avr. 2024 11:38:28 -0400 Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote ----
> Hi Paul, > Just a side note about installing using the FullUSB. > > One of my DOS test machines is an Acer One netbook with a 1Ghz Atom > processor and an ancient 30Gb SSD. This machine has no CD/DVD drive. It does > boot from the FullUSB when written to a flash drive. It takes about 5 > minutes from start to finish (boot, partition, reboot, install, reboot) to > do a Full install without sources. > My about 40 mins [did not really check the clock] in an emulated (kvm) was Full install with sources. Also... using FullUSB just because not liking [understand less] the iso format. I take/took for granted, that USB key format is the same as an hard disk... so used the USB key image on an emulated hard disk. But I realize that I could use the USB key image on an emulated USB key: https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/devices/usb.html > Although it can only use one at a time, modern versions of FDIMPLES can use > different local package repositories. > > You could have different repos on different drives. Or, even multiple ones > on the same drive in different paths. > > When FDIMPLES starts, it checks the current drive for a repository in one of > the standard paths. If it does not find one, it searches existing drives C: > through Z: for a repository. > > You can also tell it to check a specific drive (and/or alternate path) for a > repo at startup. > > For example, > > C:\>fdimples e: > C:\>fdimples d:\repo-1 > > etc. > So, I guess this tend to suggest the follwing approach for most people: (almost obvious, but was not really told to me before) Have C: be the target hard disk, have D: be the installation disk... on installation, boot D: , do a minimal installation, then on usage boot C: but with D: present, do fdimples D: to add needed packages. People that need packages only present on Bonus disk should add the E: drive with the Bonus image, and use fdimples e: to add packages from the bonus disk. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
