Re: [Freedos-devel] A Poll of sorts

[Johnson L. <jo...@tm...>]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:52:20 +1300, you wrote:

Hi,

>And adding complex filesystems such as ext2, ext3, or ntfs to the
>FreeDOS kernel will certainly not make it smaller, probably more like
>100% bigger. So you need a driver indeed, and some exist, but that
>won't enable booting.

Is it able to let DOS call "external support" driver when booting, just =
like a
plug-in, then the kernel can be smaller but still have a way to support =
those
file system.

I know it's ddifficult, not easy. But isn't it fun (or challenging) to =
did
that?

>DOS is pretty much married to FAT. That's just the way it is, or it
>wouldn't be DOS ;)

It's extreme hard to fundmentally change this, since changing may break
compatibility, but extend the DOS ability through drivers still can be =
done.


Rgds,
Johnson.