how on earth shall I expect to build a bootable ISO image with mkisofs?
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>From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com>
>To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 1:23 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp
>
>Hi,
>
>On 7/2/11, Bernd Blaauw <bbla...@home.nl> wrote:
>> Op 3-7-2011 2:59, Rugxulo schreef:
>>> I guess you mean Mike plans to write something like this one day. We
>>> do already have a port of WGET (via DJGPP), but I've not heavily
>>> tested it. (Or did you mean one with IPv6 support?? Dunno ...)
>>>
>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/wget/
>>
>> But yeah ment Mike's version. The existing DJGPP versions are rather
>> huge (1.8 at 400KB, your linked zip at 800KB).
>
>UPX it. Or just rebuild it (I've not tried), esp. with "smaller" DJGPP
>2.03p2. Check the linker map, it should tell you where the biggest .o
>files are. But yes, DJGPP's libc leaves a lot to be desired in small
>size. (--gc-sections doesn't work for COFF.) Might be better to
>rebuild (if possible, probably unlikely due to POSIX crud) with
>OpenWatcom.
>
>BTW, somebody mentioned HTGET, which we have also (though I haven't tried it):
>
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/htget/
>
>I also can't help but wonder if something like w3m would build. Bah,
>too curious for my own good. ;-)
>
>> That's not helping a "hey
>> let's boot from floppy, configure internet access and install from
>> downloaded/mounted ISO file"
>
>Floppies just don't hold enough. Add to that the fact that they fail
>semi-frequently, and you have a lose/lose combination which makes
>everybody hate them (and soon they will be officially obsolete, ugh).
>
>> I wonder if your Watcom package can be converted into a self-hosting
>> bootable compiling platform. Gives me something to mess around with,
>> trying to get that working.
>
>Well, you need FreeCOM buildable too, and I don't see any new releases
>with Bart's patches (guess it's in SVN?). Other than that, it just
>depends on what else you need.
>
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