Guys, where's the best place to put some feedback on the 1.0 ISO? tiny
bugreports and tiny enhancement ideas as well to an otherwise great
distro already.
* Bugzilla?
* Tech Wiki?
* Install Wiki?
* Mailinglist?
* Privately mail Blair Campbell?
What I've so far found are:
* Are the exact sourcefiles of kernel, freecom, install and mem all in
public CVS somewhere or are modified versions included on the CD?
* Is there any specification on what files should go to an ODIN
diskette? with a batchfile and full installed FreeDOS (or LiveCD?) it
should be easy enough to create such a disk I guess?
* on CDROM, HELP refuses to run on CD, as ODIN directory's index.htm
refers to /EN/INDEX.HTM which doesn't exist on CD
* FreeCOM has a whiteline at VER , but not at CLS for example, this
prevents SET /E MYVARS=VER
* SETUP.BAT batchfile has no /? for anyone who would like to find out
what's it for ("installing FreeDOS 1.0 operating system").
* SETUP.BAT batchfile, line 99, which tests if a file can be created on
C:\ , kinda needs a change. It relies on redirection and on
the /F parameter of the SHELL LINE in a config.sys file. A better
workaround might be something like:
@echo off
%comspec% /f /c copy nul c:\test.txt
if not exist c:\test.txt format c:
if exist c:\test.txt del c:\test.txt
"%comspec% /f /c echo yes > c:\test.txt" seems not to function, the 2nd
shell closes before redirection already, and thus if primary shell has no /F
parameter, you'll get half a dozen "abort/retry/fail" questions before
FreeCOM/kernel gives up.
This last issue I mention because only when I add /F to my own bootdisk,
the CD works. We can't rely on all bootdisks having a /F switch in
config.sys for COMMAND.COM, and thus it's better to have the /F switch
on cdrom in batchfile.
Bernd
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