One thing I'd like to see in the next FreeDOS is a better installer. Installer should be writable to a USB stick or be bootable and runnable from a disk image; there is a rather outdated FreeDOS runnable quasi-floppy image on the System Rescue CD, though this image has no installer.
I would like to see an installer (not necessarily bootable) that could run from Linux or FreeBSD, since many computer users these days have no DOS system, and running from Linux or FreeBSD would give the user more control than booting FreeDOS and not knowing which partition or disk is which. I have big hard drives, 3 TB or bigger, partitioned GPT, so the only place I could install FreeDOS to is a USB stick. Even on a modern system, FreeDOS can be useful for hardware diagnostic tools or BIOS/UEFI flash update. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel