> On Sep 10, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: >> >> - about RAMDisk: it might come handy indeed, but remember that >> FreeDOS should still be able to install on old machines, ie. from a >> floppy, on a 8086 CPU, with no XMS, and only 256K of conventional memory >> or so. This highly limits the amount of fancy stuff one can do. > > You can use TDSK (Turbo Disk) to use convention memory for RAM disk.
That would be fine. Even a 1 or 2 Kbyte RAM disk would be sufficient to pipe the data around in the installer. > > However, I do think it's better to get "something" out, even if it's > 386+ and needs CD, rather than trying to do literally everything by > yourself (with few testers) in the vain hope that it's still 8086 and > floppy friendly. (I'm totally sympathetic to 8086, but it's very very > hard to stay 100% compatible unless you write or compile everything > yourself, which is impossible.) At present, I’m making it work either on a completely read-only setup or a system that can generate temp files for piping data. I will leave it up to who builds the distort release to which way it works. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! > Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools > in one place. > SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
