Re: [Freedos-devel] A few FreeDOS 1.1 questions

[Eric A. <e....@jp...>]

Hi Bernd,

> 1) Is there any existing artwork for FreeDOS? I mean a CD jewelcase 
> front+back covers, a DVD case front+back covers, and a CD label/cover 
> and/or Lightscribe cover. So far unable to find anything like this.

We have one for 1.0 and you even saw it on a real CD years ago :-)

www.freedos.org/freedos/images/logos/ and for crystalcase/jewelcase:
www.auersoft.eu/soft/by-others/ freedos-cdrom-label-art-FDLFinal.zip

> 2) Do the internet updater programs (FDPKG and FDUPDATE ?) only update 
> an existing (harddisk-)installation, or can they also update an 
> installation location/source ( what in Windows would been called 
> "slipstreaming" nowadays) ?

They only update the installed system but on the other hand I
recommend to download fdbasecd1.1 as soon as it is available,
as that will be around 10 MB and many base apps got updated so
downloading the updates will take similar amounts of bandwidth.


>     In other words, I wouldn't mind booting CD, setting up RAMDISK and 
> internet access, followed by downloading either a fresh FreeDOS ISO or 
> the very latest packages,
>     with in the end (remastering my rewriteable CD as well as) 
> performing a FreeDOS installation from updated installation medium.

The updated packages are here:

www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/fdupdate/
www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/fdupdate/wip/

They can be combined source / binary or separate source / binary.
To make a binary-only from combined, drop source/** from contents.

Recommended command to make the ISO:

mkisofs -R -D -V "FreeDOS 1.1rc1" -o ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso \
  -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
  -no-emul-boot \-boot-load-size 4 \
  -boot-info-table /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/

Eric