HI,
How many of you remember the DOS 6.22 install process? If possible, it
should aim for that. It's simple and straight to the point. It worked
across all platforms and got DOS up and running with minimal fuss. Once the
setup is done, after a reboot, the FreeDOS package manager can run to add
additional software and system tweaks.
The package manager could be a 16-bit or 32-bit application. (I remember
PKZIP running perfectly fine on my Tandy 1000 EX before I had 640K RAM), so
FDPKG would have to work from a floppy disk/image on lower end systems (or
lower end in emulation)
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:28 AM Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> On 10/09/2015 10:51, Eric Auer wrote:
> > My personal opinion is that on 8086, you should rather use a floppy
> > distro like RUFFIDEA or BREZEL which has the "base" category already
> > pre-installed on one or a few floppies and you just XCOPY that to a
> > disk of your choice manually. Imagine how many floppies and spanned
> > zip files across multiple floppies a full install on 8086 would be.
>
> I would tend to agree on that, but it's apparently not a common point of
> view. Not that long ago, I almost triggered an apocalypse on this very
> list by stating that 8086 machines probably do not need a package
> manager. I can only imagine that an installer will be perceived as even
> more fundamental.
>
> Without going into multi-floppies installations, it might be nice for
> the FreeDOS installer to be compatible with the lowest possible machine,
> if only to effectively present an intro screen, help to format the disk
> and copy the most basic stuff to C:\FREEDOS. Even on a full-blown
> Pentium PC there won't be more to do for the installer. Once the most
> basic system is up and running, then people can install any additional
> software via FDNPKG.
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
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