Blair Campbell schreef: > After finally resolving that Florian's hard disk trashing problem was > related to LBACache, I think that 1.0 can be released as long as > LBACache isn't loaded during the install process. > 1 final test candidate then? With all discussions and patches on the mailinglists, it's hardly been worthwile to test "already out-of-date" ISO files. Are you intending to release a pure ISO, or also a simple bootdisk that can load cdrom (386-586 haven't got Bootable CD-ROM support, and Smart Boot Manager might not work on all systems). > The upcoming release features 100% powerbatch prompts and better > language selection (top 10 languages presented first, with a 'More > Options' option to select the others. > Does it break compatibility with pre-386 platforms for now due to using PowerBatch? > The installer detects automatically which drives are suitable to be > installed to and gives the user a choice between them. (Which happens > to depend on SET /E by the way which turns out to be extremely useful > in this instance :-)) If they want to create a new partition, they > can run one of the fdisk variants included. (XFdisk, SPFdisk, or > Fdisk). > Cool. Maybe someday a FreeDOS distro can support "insert Partition Magic diskette and start PQmagic to (re)partition disks." > Since FreeCOM 0.84pre2 has become quite stable recently, it will be > included, and 0.82 pl3 MIGHT find its way in as a backup in case any > users would prefer legacy (but possibly better-working) versions. > Any language files that need to be updated? Added FreeCOM options for example? > I think that's it for now... oh and the ctty nul thing that some > people complained about in postinst.bat is gone now, so you in fact > can see the messages that some things want to print :-). > :)
thanks for your efforts on 1.0 Bernd -- Efficiency is intelligent lazyness ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
