Hi Jim, Harold / Mercury, > Elsewhere in the discussion, I think we talked about unzipping the > packages. I'm not sure what the "live" part of the ISO would be, but maybe > that only needs to boot up the BASE packages (it doesn't make sense to have > DEVEL on the "live" part, for example). > > That would minimize the size of the ISO, because the "live" part would be > fairly small, and the packages to install would be zipped.
That would be a good compromise - basically BASE is "a similar set of tools as you would get with plain MS DOS", which only takes a few megabytes in pre-unzipped "live" style. The rest, which easily takes more than 100 MB even in zipped, CAN still "go live" together with a little installer trick to use a ramdisk as install target to use FreeDOS on modern computers. A ramdisk of 200 or 500 MB easily fits most of the installable packages AND works on most newer PCs. So I would be happy if a ramdisk can be loaded before the installer and can be used by it, of course as user selectable optional step :-) As mentioned earlier, I would also appreciate the possibility to install to USB disks or USB sticks, keeping the main harddisk of the PC "safely ignored" :-) >From the thread: >>> I think "too big" is relative here. The fd11src.iso is less than 40MB That is base + live base + zipped sources, I believe? Note that keeping the sources zipped is always okay. The main question is how much of the binaries to pre-install versus kept zipped. >From my off-list reply: >> The "fdfullcd" ISO was 150 MB and if I remember correctly, that was >> the size with zipped packages: Installing all packages to directories >> and then turning the result into an ISO could be 100s of megabytes. Regards, Eric PS: Dropping the image mount sub-topic again, pending Rugxulo's reply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
