Hi Maarten, Thank you for your time. The packaging work is pretty straigh-forward - it's simply "look at what packages we have, and see if any newer versions are available and/or if any other interesting and useful software could be added".
All packages are here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ The "listing.txt" file will show you the exact list of packages, as well as their respective versions. Then, it's much searching around the internet/ibiblio/other to find out "what is the latest version of software xyz" - and if the one in the repo is outdated, creating a new package. From the top of my head, I now that these packages badly need a refresh: - DJGPP - FreeBASIC - FreePascal - Frotz But surely there are many more. Here is a short article that explains what a "package" is, and how it should be done: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Package Finally, about the bootable CD work - it's at the same place, ie: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ The "all_cd.iso" file is the bootable CD I used so far. It would need Jerome's installer to be integrated, and, well, much testing. The bootable floppy image used to boot the CD is here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/cdroot/boot.img cheers, Mateusz On 04/01/2016 04:07, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > Hi, > > That 4th one is always fun, I happend to be searching for boot images > (single ones) which could boot a CD yesterday. Couldn't find one in > anyway I tried. > > I have (I believe) the abillity to do everything from 2 to 4. Sorry for > my bad english. > Unless autoexec.bat is a core utillity, I can do that too, maybe. I am > sure about 2,3 and 4. > > If one is remaining you can give it to me (assuming autoexec.bat is a > core utillity and so I can't do that), if you want me to choose here and > now. Then I choose 3. > > If Mateusz is reading now, please can you send a mail with what needs to > be done and some instructions how you should want it to happen. I choose > 3, now. > > > Maarten > > Ps: For those wondering why I can't do the core utillity: > > In 2015 I made a school report about MS-DOS. After that (I just did!) > Iooked at some MS-DOS sources. I mailed to Jim that I had been reading > it. He doesn't want me to work on any core utillity. I give him right, > but well, I wanted to ,somewhere in time, help with some core utillity's. > But for now I can't do that. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Van: Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <mailto:jer...@shidel.net> > Verzonden: 3-1-2016 23:12 > Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <mailto:freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta > > The new FreeDOS batch file based installer (FDI) has been done for a > while now and > I have used it to install FreeDOS multiple times. Since, it just uses > Mateusz’s repo disc > image for packages and is not FreeDOS 1.1, I consider it a FreeDOS 1.2 > preview/alpha > version. > > It would be nice to have a FreeDOS 1.2 Beta Release sometime soon. Then > a RC and > Final version sometime thereafter. > > So, to the best of my knowledge this is what needs to be completed. > (Not by me!) > > 1) Universally compatible simple fdconfig.sys an autoexec.bat file that > is installed by FDI. > > The present one that is created is has limited compatibility. For > example, boot option 1 > is not compatible with VirtualBox. Someone needs to take a look at them > and provide the > needed changes. One additional consideration is regarding language and > codepage > support. FDI can automatically include custom settings for these when > creating a new > autoexec.bat based on the user’s selected language. If these settings > are to be included, > they need to be provided and placed in a custom SETLANG.BAT file for the > specific > language. FDI will embed them into the new autoexec file during the > installation. > > 2) List of packages for BASE and ALL. > > I have tried to make BASE as close to the what was in FreeDOS 1.1. > I have no clue what to put into ALL for 1.2. > > 3) Assist Mateusz in bringing all of his packages up to there latest > versions. > > 4) Assemble a Boot CD that contains the installer and the FreeDOS packages. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
