> > On Oct 1, 2024, at 11:06 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > * 'romos' and 'eltorito' were NOT in 2409 but exist in 2410, but both are > > on the package list from 1.3. I assume these were accidentally not > > included in 2409?
(oops, I missed a 'not' in my original email .. I've added it above) On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:36 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > Actually, I think ROMOS is probably to be excluded from the release > media. The package contains disk image files which contain programs > without sources. I agree. > The eltorito package is simply a driver from SYSLINUX. It possibly > gets used by the LiveCD at boot. A long while back, I was informed > that this driver would only work when booting from CD. However, > users have reported that it has worked for them when they booted the > installed system. So… Since it is a low priority driver during the > CD initialization, I figured it doesn’t hurt to just include it. Sounds fine to me. > > * 'kittenc' and 'fdisrc' were in 2409 but are not in 2410. I assume > > these were accidentally missed while moving packages? > > kittenc got missed. I just added it to the list. > > fdisrc is a little odd. I left it out. The installer is a batch > program and therefore it is its own source. However, the RBE performs a > large amount of processing on the raw FDI source files when creating > the install media. The FDISRC package is the raw version of the > installer’s files. Like the Kernel and FreeCOM, it is handled very > differently than every other package in the release. At present, > the RBE will want to place those sources in the UTIL group. While > we do not need to include those files, it is nice to provide them as > well. I will just need to find some spare time to tweak the RBE so it > will put them in the DEVEL group. Thanks for both of these. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
