Hi Eric, thank you for your replyIt's nice to feel that one is not alone in Dosland :)Yes I was installing the source code aswel, because I am studying programming and I would surely like to have an idea of what's under the hood. Ok I might install again on the Pentium MMX without the source and
Hi Geraldo,
are you sure you want to start a discussion about
password cracking here?? Of course there are other
reasons why unpacking can be useful - for example
to re-package in more modern ways or to re-stub
software which uses outdated DOS extenders etc.
Regards, Eric
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Hi Jon,
for your advanced multi boot project, you could boot FreeDOS
from floppy and use the SHSU... drivers to open the ISO file
of the install CD as if it were a CD drive, after using your
Windows or Debian to copy the ISO to your DOS/Win95 harddisk.
The ISO has plenty of ZIPs to use with the
Hi Thalis!
If FreeDOS took hours for you to install, you might
have tried to install everything and the sources.
This can be 100s of megabytes and if you are not a
programmer, you will rarely touch the source code.
To have a result more similar to MS DOS 7, simply
install only the "base" packa
Dear people of FreeDos, thank you for having me on your email list :)Can anyone convince me to use FreeDos over MS-Dos 7.1?I tried installing FreeDos on a Pentium MMX, with CD-Rom, and it took 8 hours of installing painfully slowly, before I did something that interupted the process. MS-Dos took me
