Re: [Freedos-user] Need your comments about the FreeDOS site

2012-09-26 Thread dos386
Another late comment: - When anouncing a bugfix release of something that hasn't been fully announced recently, write 1 or 2 sentences about what it actually is, before discussing the improvements. Example: WCD 5.2.0 Erwin Waterlander has released wcd 5.2.0. The new option '-I' (ignore

Re: [Freedos-user] Need your comments about the FreeDOS site

2012-09-26 Thread C. Masloch
Example: WCD 5.2.0 Erwin Waterlander has released wcd 5.2.0. [...] has absolutely no info about what the thingie is after all ;-) I agree. Hmm... I think to vaguely remember what /this/ WCD was, but it's still not as clear as it could be. In general, maybe append a short description of

Re: [Freedos-user] Need your comments about the FreeDOS site

2012-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
Agreed, we can be better with the news items. I think some of the more recent posts have been improving along these lines, though. But as we post new news items, we'll try to provide a bit of context for what the program does. Our news item about WCD 5.2.2 at least explained the WCD name as

Re: [Freedos-user] Need your comments about the FreeDOS site

2012-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Aitor Santamaría aitor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jim As you see, I am a bit delayed with mail. The site looks very nice and neat now!!! I was just wandering, whatever happened to those old technotes (usually text or mail exceprts) that there used to be? The

Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?

2012-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
Hi all, Sorry I've been away and missed this. I'm in grad school, which unfortunately takes up a lot of my available time. I'm going to skip the rest of the thread, and just mention I'm going to update the text in question with a statement like what Eric suggested. It still highlights the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
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 mate...@viste-family.net wrote: On 09/18/2012 09:11 PM, Rugxulo

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:11 AM, nospam nos...@georgpotthast.de wrote: Rugxulo has made a single floppy FreeDOS image called BARE_DOS that works well: https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ Georg FYI: I've also mirrored Rugxulo's BARE_DOS to

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-26 Thread Ricardus Vincente
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 17:22 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: The boot image I found didn't have CDROM drivers, but added them. I could just make an ISO of the floppies I ended up making, if you like. Rich... On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:11 AM, nospam nos...@georgpotthast.de wrote: Rugxulo has made a

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:11 AM, nospam nos...@georgpotthast.de wrote: Rugxulo has made a single floppy FreeDOS image called BARE_DOS that works well: https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ Georg FYI: I've also

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-26 Thread C. Masloch
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 Kernel on that image uses 386+ instructions... and it seems as if it does that without (properly) checking for the presence of a 386.