Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Jim and VCF, thank you for sharing the stream on > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peIYEAM9pk > > Of course, I have some thoughts about it: > > Earlier in the video, when you present some spreadsheets > and word processors, there is a point where you show the > Windows 3 about screen and it mentions 386enh mode? > > When going through the install process, I do not see how > you can do interactive partitioning of the disk, or to > install non-destructively. I guess you have to exit to > DOS for that and somehow trigger the remaining steps of > the install manually, bypassing the destructive steps?
Correct, the installer tries to do everything for you; the user should just be able to respond to prompts. If you want to do things manually, you can always exit the installer and run FDISK. To install non-destructively (for example, if you already did FDISK + FORMAT + SYS, and don't want the installer to run SYS again) you can run this: SETUP ADV ..and that will give you the option to control the installation at a very micro level. We've recommended this to a few people who have asked, but virtually everyone else can use the regular installer. > Also, it seems a bit tedious to download roughly 1 GIGABYTE > of installers (livecd and bonuscd) and walk through the > entire install process only to create a 50 or 120 MEGABYTE > image for qemu. We should offer a pre-installed disk image. Which format? IMG? QCOW? QCOW2? VMDK? DMG? VDI? VHDX? There are many options, which is why I haven't provided an image. I'm also sure that whatever image type I pick, someone will complain because it's not their favorite. :-) But if we think an image would help, and we know what format would be most useful to most (all?) virtual machine / PC emulator environments, I can do the "Plain DOS, plus sources" install on a 120MB image (zipped) and put that on Ibiblio too. > Note that there is no obvious link from > > https://freedos.org/download/ to the used subdirectory > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/ Do you mean the links to download the LiveCD, BonusCD, FullUSB, LiteUSB, LegacyCD, and Floppy Edition? Click the links on that page to download them. > and even less so the subdirectory presented in the video, > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/ If you mean the monthly test releases, those are here: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ Jeremy announces the URL every month on freedos-devel. [..] > PS: There is only a TEXT file about metados left here? > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/ The "unofficial" folder was an old copy of Rugxulo's MetaDOS floppy distribution. I kept the folder there because the GNU GPL says that people who download something that's covered under the GNU GPL must be able to request the source code for at least 3 years. Rugxulo said he stopped working on MetaDOS, but I needed to keep the files on Ibiblio in case someone asked for the MetaDOS source code, and I need to keep them on Ibiblio for 3 years (the MetaDOS 0.7 was from February 2019, but I think I marked that folder as inactive sometime in 2021, so I'm planning to delete the "metados" directory at the end of 2024 (and since "unofficial" only contains "metados," I'll delete "unofficial" at the same time). Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
