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#260 COUNTRY setting after installation
Hi!
Sorry to say that, but in 2020 users expect a proper COUNTRY (and codepage) setting after installation.
I chose German keyboard during installation and the installation process was done completely in German language, which is very nice, but the installer then writes COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS to CONFIG.SYS.
I would expect at least !COUNTRY=049,,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS.
So, please add another screen to ask the user for the country he lives in and set COUNTRY accordingly during installation.
Cheers,
Robert
This is not a bug. It is a feature request.
Please tell me more.
The ticket should not be in "bug reports" it should be in "feature requests"
Ah, sorry. I stopped reading your answer after "This is not a bug. It is a feature..."
I missed the word "request". Sorry again.
Cheers,
Robert
At present, the installer (called FDI), has multiple FDCONFIG.SYS and FDAUTO.BAT template files for different hardware and virtual platforms. During installation, it takes known data and updated settings and expands variables in the FDAUTO.BAT and writes that to disk. It could do that for the FDCONFIG.SYS. But, there is a larger issue. Sure it's 2020. But until very recently, no-one had bothered to provide us with the localization settings needed to tell FDI what to put in there. Most of the languages, like German still don't have any of that data.
Um, I see, I'm the only one who cares. ;-)
I changed my FDCONFIG.SYS to
!COUNTRY=049,,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYSand it worked fine. So what do you mean by "like German still don't have any of that data."?Cheers,
Robert
I would not go as far as saying that.
I just think that no one knows that it doesn’t do it because I haven’t been given the correct settings.
Last edit: Shidel 2020-01-17
For the settings either look for the Country setting in HELP or at http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Country_codes
Cheers,
Robert
Just my humble opinion, but I second Robert. When FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 is installed with the French language selected, FDCONFIG.SYS contains the following line:
! COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS
So this is code page is 858 but the US as the country.
It would be very nice if FDI could ask the country of the user and set FDCONFIG.SYS accordingly because French is spoken in several countries and just selecting France would also be inappropriate.
FreeDOS 1.3 writes
COUNTRY=049,858,C:\FreeDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYStoFDCONFIG.SYS, which is not that bad as before. :-)As WIKI is offline for the moment, here another link for the country code:
https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/country.htm
I noticed that several countries already have an updated country code. In case that this theme is already fixed I would propose to close the thread.