Hi Bernd, > 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? for real bugs ;-) > * Tech Wiki? > * Install Wiki? you can add a note about misbehaving 1.0 things to the http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall wiki page, to inform other users about the problem. only if the problem is interesting enough for them, of course. > * Mailinglist? you have to decide yourself whether things are interesting for the list. sometimes it can be better to mail a few people directly first, and only start using the list as soon as things start being of public interest. > * Privately mail Blair Campbell? please also CC the developers of the affected software and people who are interested in distro creation, like you Bernd and me and Fritz (as we have that diskette distro). > * Are the exact sourcefiles of kernel, freecom, install and mem all in > public CVS somewhere or are modified versions included on the CD? For MEM, the version on http://freedos.sourceforge.net/mem/ (1.11) is even newer than the FreeDOS 1.0 one. The used kernel is not completely in CVS yet (sorry about that), the CVS only has 2036test. The real 2036 can be found on www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ ... as for FreeCOM, you would have to ask Blair if all changes are in CVS already. > * 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? It is your own choice what exactly to put in ODIN. The install CD has a directory called ODIN as far as I remember, you could start with that and remove some install-specific files... My own diskette distro attempts have a size of 3 diskettes at the moment, but you can do a lot with disk 1 of 3 already :-). The distro contains a full install of fdbasecd, with most of the docs zipped :-). > * 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 Good point, thanks for finding out! You should add that to the mentioned Wiki page. > * FreeCOM has a whiteline at VER, but not at CLS for example, this > prevents SET /E MYVARS=VER Interesting problem, but if you only want the version NUMBER, then you better use a small tool which returns that as the errorlevel. I could write one if you do not already have one. Takes a few bytes. > * SETUP batchfile has no /? for anyone who would like to find out > what's it for ("installing FreeDOS 1.0 operating system"). Right. And it should use the copy of SHSURDRV which is on the cdrom, not the one which it assumes to be in the caller PATH... > * SETUP 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 That is too extreme and does not explain what is happening and why. But it is okay to use %comspec% /f for the main check. Nice idea. Does copying nul work like that? Use another small file which is in the distro anyway otherwise :-). > "%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 is probably because the FIRST shell does the redirection and the second shell only does ECHO YES! Good point. And of course it would be very good to use OSCHECK BEFORE trying to create files on C:, to avoid some unnecessary write attempts on non-FAT drives. If OSCHECK is not suitable for that for any reason, for example if it can happen that it triggers an abort/retry/fail prompt, please do tell me, then I can update OSCHECK! By the way, please do provide a REAL CWSDPMI for download, too. Just using HXRT DPMI instead without telling anybody is a bad idea. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
