Hi, I could only test the base disc. Drive C: is a FAT32 drive (FreeDOS and WinXP pre-installed).
(*) You can choose between 6 items, but only 2 are visible in the "FreeDOS install / FreeDOS safe mode" menu. (*)There is no info that you have to tpye "ESC" to exit PG (*)After install program I got following problem: Translated to Englisch (after a very very LONG delay): "Error: installation aborted config files hasn't been created type sys a:\ c:\ manuell" (I have no drive A:, only if I have an USB stick pluged-in). After pressing a key, I saw "C:\". BUT THEN if I type "dir" I saw only crap. The dir command shows me only some ASCII characters above 128 at drive "C:"!! And only 2 directories. Harddisc seems to be destroyed. After a restart the harddisc seemed to be ok - but: Boot loader of WinXP seemed to be destroyed. It told me, that a DLL file is destroyed or not found. ALSO old FreeDOS installation cannot be lunched via boot loader. If more than bootloader is destroyed, I will tell you more info in a next Email! Bye Florian Blair Campbell wrote: > This will probably be the final testing release. As usual, you can > find the variety of ISOs at > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing > . The old testing ISOs have been moved to > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/old > . > > And of course, the new features: > > XCDROM has been slightly modified as I wondered if increasing the > timeouts would help Eric's CRC errors. Also, the default device is > now FDCD0001 to avoid filesystem conflicts. > > The text installer was ported to OpenWatcom and now zip lists are > properly created for each unzipped package. The executable is smaller > than the original due to downsizing in the embedded unzip source code. > If there is time before 1.0, it will also make sure there is enough > size on the destination disk before unzipping. > > The full livecd portion was removed from fdbasecd.iso and fdbasews.iso > to make them smaller downloads for those with slower internet > connections. > > FreeCOM now supports a cool IMHO SET /E extension. It is the > equivalent to 'VAR=`COMMAND`' syntax in UNIX shells, and will set the > environment variable to the first line of output created by the > spawned program. Also there were some bugfixes. 1.0 will include a > FreeCOM with a bugfix for the 'WHAT.EXE can't set environment > variable' problem. > > GRUB4DOS is no longer installed as the default bootloader for FAT32 > drives, but is still included. > > ISOLINUX was updated to the latest version. > > The translations that people sent to me are now all included afair. > And Aitor can check my spanish translation of XCopy now :-). > > CPI files are now in %DOSDIR%/CPI > > Some bugfixes in FDPKG > > XFdisk now really can be run from the fdisk menu (bugfix). Especially > for those of you who had problems with fdisk, XFdisk should probably > be a good choice. > > All (both) timeouts were increased to 60 seconds due to popular > demand. FYI though, timeouts work 100% correct for me in VMWare, > Virtual PC, and QEMU. > > It is now possible to install to a different directory than C:\FDOS, > but some files are still installed to C: (and C: is the drive that is > sys'd). > > Probably some other things I forgot. > > Enjoy testing. > > Oh, and this is a very important oh. After releasing the first test > ISO, I only got ONE report back. Even if the distro works 100% > perfect for you, I would still like to actually know that. > -- Florian Xaver <http://www.flox.at.tf> *Webdesign *oZone-a GUI operating system for DOS,Linux,Win *SWORD-a nice GUI library for DOS/DJGPP Dr-DOS Wiki <http://www.drdos.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
