Hi! I am happy to announce to availability of an updated FreeDOS Install CD, containing all of the disksets and also some enhancements. After testing, please e-mail me with suggestions for additional software to be included/excluded and other things. Jim Hall is in the process of downloading and uploading the ISOs to ibiblio, and I will notifyt the mailing lists when this is finished. Here is the Readme:
The files available are: http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/torrents/FreeDos-Boot-CD+Sources-2005-07-18.iso.torrent http://freedos.sharedaemon.org/torrents/FreeDos-Boot-CD-2005-07-18.iso.torrent and the md5sums are: 356b0276407272550f6a76312449c949 *FreeDos-Boot-CD+Sources-2005-07-18.iso 366a430b0af2ce18d3ec9a15d078a97a *FreeDos-Boot-CD-2005-07-18.iso These files are intended for testing only at this point as they are largely untested and likely have many problems to be worked out. For those just looking to to a basic install with updated packages this should be fine, but there are no guarantees. FreeDos-Boot-CD-2005-07-18.iso This is the file that most people will be wanting. This is a FreeDOS Install/LiveCD with the Base, Edit, Lang, Util, and Net disksets, in addition to an 'Extra' diskset with many other useful programs. This is almost half the size of FDBOOTCD.ISO because it lacks ANY source packages. If you only want some source packages, it is probably best to download them seperately. FreeDos-Boot-CD+Sources-2005-07-18.iso This is the file that mostly developers will be wanting. This is a FreeDOS Install/LiveCD with all disksets in addition to the 'Extra' diskset and 'SRC_EX' diskset which consists of many useful programs and their sources. This is almost double the size of FreeDos-Boot-CD-2005-07-18.iso because it contains ALL of the source packages. Again, if you only want some source packages, it is probably better to download them seperately. This ISO is available for GPL compliance. md5sums This file contains the md5 hashes for the above two files so that you can check to make sure that the files were downloaded correctly. Both CDs contain updated packages including the latest HTML Help binary compiled with kitten, Devload 3.15, OSPlus Editor 2.1.1, MPXPlay 1.52, HXRT 1.26, 7za 4.23, Format 0.91u, EMM386 2.04, HIMEM 3.11, OpenGEM 4.0, FDXMS 0.94, and FDXMS286 0.03. The LiveCD portion of the CD-ROM contains useful software like the entire Base diskset, MPXPlay, 7za, Open Watcom, and games like Bolitaire and Jump'n'Bump. After installing FreeDOS from the CD-ROM, you can do several useful things not available from the original FreeDOS CD-ROM. You can update the kernel to the latest unstable kernel via wget by typing 'krnlupdt' at the command prompt if wget is installed. If you don't want a package installed anymore, you can remove it by typing 'fdpkg binary remove <pkgname>' for a binary package and 'fdpkg source remove <pkgname>' for a source package (example: 'fdpkg binary remove UDMA2'). If you want to install further software from the CD-ROM, set the 'cdrep' environment variable to your CD-ROM drive (set 'CDREP=D:'), then type 'fdcdrom <pkgname>' and it will find the package on the cdrom and install it (example: 'fdcdrom OWATCOM' to install Open Watcom). Enjoy Testing! ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
