Hi David, > > 3. An optional floppy-only "Base" install. > > This could be a 1.44MB emergency boot floppy image (like BALDER... > > [or] multi-floppy (3 disks?) install of everything from "Base"...
> I vote for this one. I appreciate the "official" FreeDOS install CD, > and have used it lots. However, I've got a few floppy-only machines. > I looked at rugxulo, and it looks okay, but I think FreeDOS needs an > "official" floppy installation as a companion to the CDROM. While there is no official 1.1 CDROM yet, I vote for making the Rugxulo floppy distro official :-). It contains all the BASE things which will be in 1.1, plus some mixed other open source things (mostly "small goodies"). So his distro can be seen as "a diskette version of the not yet existing 1.1 CDROM plus some additions" :-). Talking about FreeDOS 1.1, it would be quite interesting to compare the "up to date ness" of the Rugxulo distro (and his list of "current versions out there") to the list of packages available on FDUPDATE. By making the FDUPDATE package collection complete, we would be almost there when it comes to creating a CDROM for FreeDOS 1.1, using 1.0 and the updates :-). > I think the floppy installation needs to > be as complete as the CDROM. Agreed for BASE, but not for FULL: The full distro is more than 100 MB after installing and there are many better ways to get such amounts of data on your harddisk without having to create a big pile of floppies. For example you can boot the 1.0 install diskette and mount (yes :-)) the ISO from a file. To copy the file to your harddisk before that, you can use: non-bootable CDROM, DVD, USB stick, internet, Windows, Linux... I also think that we should make a CDROM of 1.1 BASE first - FULL is just too much work, and you can always install packages from 1.0 full or via FDUPDATE :-). Some useful URLs about FDUPDATE, Rugxulo and FreeDOS 1.0: > http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/fdupdate/ > www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=dir&dir=base > http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/fdpkgnew.txt > http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall > http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdDependencies Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
