On 20/10/2015 22:32, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, at the risk of being controversial:
Eric you mad man! You might need to run for your life soon :) > IF you can NOT boot from CD then you almost always want a floppy distro, > not some fancy shiny installer... Just my personal experience here ;-) > > For the 16 bit case, I suggest a boot floppy with the necessary tools to > unpack zip files. Plus some floppies with all of BASE pre-installed, for > XCOPY style install. Plus some instructions on where to get additional > zip files and instructions for gaining access to the CD and/or ISO file. I secretly agree with you there. Only secretly, and won't say it loud, since there are 16bits extremists lurking out here, and I don't wish to start kilometer-long threads about the superiority of 8086 over everything else. :) So my 'official' position is that a full-featured, multi-repository networked package manager is overkill for 8086, even if it would be "nice to have" in utopia-land. For everything else (installer, chkdsk fat32, whatever else) I just don't care, since it's not I who would do the (very theoretical) job anyway. I think the base of the system (kernel/command/basic tools) needs to be 8086-compatible for sure. Everything else? well.. If anyone sticks to 16bits, sure, that's cool. Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
