Hi Jerome, >> Well, having four times slower install than >> possible, when installing on real hardware, >> does sound like something which *is* worth >> fixing ASAP and in rc4, unless you plan to >> release rc5 only a week later ;-)
> RC4 is no slower than RC3 or RC2. Which is too slow, given that easy solutions have been available for several years, which could speed up the process by a factor four. >> Several of my other suggestions are about >> EASY to fix and old bugs in your config and >> autoexec templates, which will help making >> rc4 lower in bug count at low effort for you, >> preventing future "I have tried the distro, >> but it is full of problems" reviews. Given >> that "RC" implies "better than beta" :-) > > Any changes at all, require additional testing. That is exactly why I asked you to make those changes. There is no need to test an already discovered bug AGAIN just because you want to keep it in rc4 ;-) So I hope rc5 comes soon. > RC4 has an enormous amount of change. Both > for the install media and behind the scenes. That certainly is exciting. > In reality, it is almost as if we stopped > the 1.3 line entirely and are doing 1.4-BETA. ;-) > It was planned for 1.3-FINAL to follow RC4. But, > depending on the amount of change we do. An RC5 > is not out of the question. Possibly even only > a few weeks after RC4. Check the proposed config/autoexec changes again. They are both easy and very useful so I certainly would not want to wait for 1.4 to have those... > I’ve asked before for assistance on making the install > boot config more universal. But, that was a long time ago. > They sure can use improvements. But, they aren’t critical. > The current ones have more or less been in place for YEARS. Sorry for not emphasizing those problems earlier in that case. Now is your chance to fix them without waiting for new reports a few extra years later ;-) >> Luckily http://mercurycoding.com/downloads.html >> has been as-is for three months, pre-packaged, >> so UHDD, UDVD2, RDISK, XMGR etc. have been >> fully available for the distro repositories, >> also DEBUG, JWASM, HIMEMX and 64-bit HIMEMSX. > > I think all of those have been on the repo ( > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/index.html > ) for months as well. In that case, you had them immediately after Mercury, but several of them are still missing from 1.3rc3. In theory, you could just paste the new files over an old kernel package to avoid having to re-distribute files over subdirectories, but those packages are not very small, so it is still relatively many steps to do. Auto-built kernel binaries are available via github. Interesting the Jeremy lives nearby your place! Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
