> 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.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: > 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. I would recommend we keep the updated install process very simple. Make it straightforward. I think pre-'386 systems are in a very small minority. We'll be able to address over 99% of all FreeDOS users by making this a CD-based installation. If you have an 8088 or a '286, then you'll need floppies to install. I agree that should be a separate floppy-based distro. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
