Hi Mercury, > Personally I would rather see an executable installer also and save any > batch installers for a floppy distro, A batch would be perfect for a > setting where every byte counts.
Actually no: Easiest would be a floppy with pre-installed DOS and the usual tools (fdisk, format, sys, xcopy). Next step would be to add UNZIP and have zipped tools. Gives you more installable stuff per size on the floppy, but less useable stuff without install ;-) Size wise, a small executable with few features is probably even smaller than a medium size set of generic tools and several large batch files to give the limited language of BAT enough power for a decent installer. Plus you have to load all those small files, probably repeatedly, so a small exe is also FASTER for floppies. > But this is Jim's project and what Jim wants, Jim gets. lol :) This also depends on availability of people who want to implement it. Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
