Hi, On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > 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.
However, some rare setups (and tools) choke on too much RAM (as opposed to not enough). This may not be flawless. Then again, nothing is, so the only way to know for sure is test. > 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 :-) FYI, for simplicity, you may like something like Jack's RDISK, but as mentioned before, it lacks a few features (that I guess he considered rarely used). If unloading is important or something like XMSv2 compatibility, you'll have to (also) have something else available. > >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. I'm not sure exactly what you want here. I don't know of any (obvious) useful tools for this case. Sorry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
