> Well, the secret to the read only image would be to create a ram disk and > set temp there, copy a few files. Microsoft uses RAMDISK. This would allow > the creation of temporary files as well as provide a storage for frequently > accessed DOS commands, since CD is slower than RAM. I did some searching and > noticed that FreeDOS is without a ram disk program, I am going to try > SRDISK. It just became GPLd as of version 2.09 and has some very good > features like being resizable and using EMS or XMS...
We already do use a ramdisk in the installer. Read the setup bat file: It runs shsuRdrv... Note that the SHSU toolkit also contains many CDROM related utilities and drivers, including drivers which can "mount" an ISO image or FAT16 image into RAM. They can even load compressed images. Another version, shsuCDHD, can "mount" an ISO image directly, using only a small amount of RAM :-). Do not forget that all ISO mounting still requires loading SHSUCDX or MSCDEX afterwards to connect the ISO file- system to a drive letter. Anyway. I can reply to your question that FreeDOS 1.0 already does include SRDISK (XMS version and EMS version) but that our default ramdisk is SHSUDRDRV, which is a lot smaller on disk. As you say that you searched and found no ramdisk, maybe we should put a good explanation of which SHSU tool does what in some readme or online. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
