On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Tony wrote: > Would boot floppy emulation (used on Windows 95/98) be easier to implement? > I'm looking from a marketing perspective. ISOLINUX throws Linux out there to > the enduser even though the result is FreeDOS on the machine. I think that a > FreeDOS install CD should boot with FreeDOS, if the hardware is capable, > jump into a 256 color mode show the logo (adventurous) or better yet, boot > into FreeDOS Live run either a custom environment, or GEM (it's cute) or at > least use its VDI to show a desktop where you can click on an icon that says > install FreeDOS, or exit and run from the command prompt.
$ mkisofs -o ~/myiso.iso -b bootdisk.ima . It's seriously that easy with mkisofs... > FreeDOS bundled with GEM would provide a small subset of apps on a live CD > (I recall a word processor, a paint program, and a BASIC interpreter among > the included apps) and would give some similarity to the Linux distros (in > that of a GUI and starter apps), but in FreeDOS' case, only on the live CD > would GEM run. The installation of GEM would either be a separate > installation (ran from the CD) or via an advanced tab in the already > existing INSTALL program. The problem is, most of those apps are abandonwarez. (This is why the GEM distribution on GrODIN, uFgem, does not and will not include them.) -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
