Re: [Freedos-devel] packages for dosemu-freedos.

[Eric A. <er...@co...>]

Hi Bart,

> First of all, I couldn't find a "kernelx.zip" package.

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/
has  kernel2036-binary.zip  and  kernel2036-source.zip :-)

For unstable 2037, you will have to ask Blair. But the ISO
contains the various kernel binaries in unpackaged form
already as far as I know.

> But it looks like the sources are missing documentation?

Yes, a really regrettable move to save space. The docs are
only in the binary packages, so you need the binary package
AND the source package to create an updated binary package.
I would prefer having the docs in BOTH packages.

> to save some disk space? It doesn't seem completely proper to me.

> Is there a list somewhere with all the versions that are used?

The ISO contains a tool called RIPCORD (or did it get renamed?)
which tells the version numbers of all components. Alternatively,
grab the LSM files from the zips on the ISO or from an installed
system :-).

> And is the command.com that is used in FD 1.0 somewhere under
> ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/command/
> at all?

Good question, you will have to ask Blair for that one again.
Not sure if all changes are in CVS yet and if something based
on the CVS is on ibiblio already. As for FreeDOS kernel 2036,
my copy of the kernel contains a few changes which are not in
CVS yet, so the kernel on my page and in the ISO is slighly
newer than the CVS stable 2036.

I also recommend to read the notes about known 1.0 issues on
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall

By the way, any plans for publishing some upgrade pack to 1.01?
The fdbase* ISOs could be updated to 1.01 completely, but people
who do not want to re-download the fdfull* ISOs should be able
to get things updated by downloading one or more files from some
"updated since 1.0" directory on ibiblio :-).

Eric