Re: [Freedos-devel] final preview for FreeDOS 1.1 release

[Bernd B. <bb...@ho...>]

Op 27-12-2011 13:35, Travis Siegel schreef:
> I'm assuming this is only a preview (as mentioned) and not a release
> candidate?

I had the intention of releasing it in current form but am getting some 
usefull feedback already.

> There's lots of things missing from this one (just browsing the iso
> image, not actually installing it you understand)

It's going to be very basic indeed, with the option of extending it 
later (a real live environment like the FDOS directory on FD1.0, and 
more programs like the FULL CD had). That would be a version 1.2 or 1.3 
I guess. After all, having DOS installed and then still not being able 
to do much, isn't any good either.

> I'm puzzled why the actual fd iso is inside another iso that would be
> basically unusable if booted on a pc (unless I'm missing things on
> the image, like I said, I just browsed the disk in osx finder, didn't
> actually try installing it or anything)

The inner ISO can be treated as FreeDOS CD itself. The outer ISO is just 
a wrapper. Both contain the bootdiskette image (FDBOOT.IMG) to find and 
access CD contents. Benefit is the inner ISO can be booted into memory 
(see bottom menu option) thus making the CD drive available again.

> Also, a point for the networking section.  Has anyone thought about
> including ka9q in this section? It's not wattcp to be sure, but it
> sure has a lot of  power, comes in gpl versions (or at least some
> versions do) and it can turn a dos machine into a full blown tcp/ip
> server.  I used it (briefly) back in 1996 when I first got my
> softcon.com domain up and going until I had my linux boxes ready to
> take the load.

> Also, I'm not seeing any development tools, was this deliberate?

Yes for now, I'd like to keep things small for the moment.
My intention is releasing the following:
1) simple ISO with all packages (containing binaries + sources)
2) double ISO with all packages (only binaries, no sources)
3) 1.44MB bootdisk image