Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

Hi. This is a good idea. I'll link to the 1.0 boot floppy image, under
the "FreeDOS 1.0" section.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Mateusz Viste <ma...@vi...> wrote:
> On 09/18/2012 09:11 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>> 4). There ARE floppy images, as mentioned, just slightly moldy. Most
>> of us make do with old stuff and manually install.   :o)
>>
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/balder/balder10.img
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/odin/odin060/fdodin06.8088.zip
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/floppy/img/base/install.img
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img
>> https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/BARE_DOS.ZIP?attredirects=0
>
> Maybe it would be a good idea to take one of these, and put a link right
> on the FreeDOS website, in the download section at
> http://www.freedos.org/download/ with a little note 'if you need to
> bring alive an old and rusty pc with only a floppy drive onboard, take
> this 1.44M bootable image' ?
>
> Even if it's only for 0.0001% of the user base, it's still nice.. plus,
> the fact that there would a floppy image available for download is also
> a message 'FreeDOS cares about old systems'.
>
> just my $0.03. :)
>
> Mateusz
>