Hi to all,
did you ever try to boot from the diskette with an inserted CD or from the diskette itself?
As it is a live version the CD offers "Use FD in live environment mode", "Install to harddisk", "Boot from HD" and "Boot from diskette".
When you choose "Boot from diskette" at this position (or when you directly boot from diskette) there is NO option for "Use FD in live environment mode" - it only offers INSTALLATION (at least I did not find it, if it exists, please tell me). If I go to CD-ROM drive D: I can only see setup.bat - and this one also only offers installation, no live environment. I am sure there is a batch file that offers live environment too,but it is not in the root folder, means: newbies will not find it.
From my sight this is dangerous, even there is a warning that it may overwrite your system.
@Jerome: sorry, but I think this is an important point for discussing - and not distributing the diskette.
Willi
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 12:46 PM
From: "Jerome Shidel" <[email protected]>
To: "FreeDOS Developers" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy
From: "Jerome Shidel" <[email protected]>
To: "FreeDOS Developers" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy
Hello all,
The LiveCD menu also contains a Boot from floppy disk entry.
Do we really need to keep this option on the menu?
A user can just insert a floppy disk and boot it without having the CD inserted. I think the use case for this option is very low. Removing it would problem only be a minor inconvenience. If it affected anyone at all, it would only effect a handful users at most.
Jerome
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