> On Sep 18, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Sep 16, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Antony Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I think the best solution would probably be two setup programs. A quick >>> setup like Jim wants and then a more advanced setup that provides all the >>> advanced tools, disk image creation that more technical users would want. >>> >>> Simple version is the batch file, advanced version is C (or some other high >>> end language). >> > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Jim wants a super simple user friendly installer. >> Jim gets a super simple user friendly installer. >> >> However, after reading several of his posts on things like this. I think, >> that he would have no issue with someone creating >> their own release that had a custom installer with as many options as anyone >> wants. >> >> I do see many of the individuals here on the dev channel, REALLY, REALLY, >> REALLY want a lot options for the installer. >> >> Unfortunately, this is not an Option. (Pun intended) >> >> Maybe, all of you could convince him to do a "Developer” version of FreeDOS. > > > I think we need to have a simple install process, so that everyone can > install and use FreeDOS. Perhaps the simplest solution would be to > relocate the existing C:\FDOS to C:\FDOS.001. (If C:\FDOS.001 already > exists, increment to C:\FDOS.002 .. etc.) And rename the AUTOEXEC.BAT > and CONFIG.SYS to AUTOEXEC.001 and CONFIG.001, etc. Your V8 Power > Tools have the ability to do some math operations, so I guess this is > possible?
Yep. (i need to add the zero padding bit. At present, it would just do FDOS.1, FDOS.2, ….) I will make the zipped backup stuff an option for the power user mode. > > For others who want to have a "Developer" or "Power user" version of > the FreeDOS install process, I think that's fine. But I don't want it > to interfere with the primary FreeDOS install process. Perhaps a > solution would be to develop a separate "Power user" install BAT > script .. anyone who wants to use this alternative could exit the > primary FreeDOS install process, and run the "Power user" version from > the command line. > That will make a lot of these guys happier. :-) Not difficult to make “Dev/Power user installer” inside the default installer with just using a command line switch to turn it on. Like "setup /adv” to. If they happen to exit the installer and go to restart it, it should keep the novice installer from accidentally running the wron one. > Jim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
