> On Jun 23, 2025, at 5:33 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Hi! > > Quick question... > > Does the online FDRepo v3 data also support existing > installations which expect older data online, or will > everybody who has installed FreeDOS in the recent past > have to reinstall and/or update repo handling tools?
It is backward compatibility with the existing tools to download the package updates. > > Regards, Eric > > PS: I also think we should keep offering ISOs! Easier > to boot ancient PC from CD than from USB ;-) The repo ISO images are not the same as the FreeDOS release images. The repo images are not bootable. They are simply images of the latest version of the packages in the related update repository. At present there are two repositories that create an ISO of packages. The “Latest” and “1.4 Downloads” both create a DVD image whenever a package is updated in specific repository. The 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 Update repositories are configured to not generate an ISO image. The Release images are stored elsewhere on IBIBLIO and are not part of or present in any of the “Download and Update” repositories. As for creating those additional ISO images, I only see one real benefit. If a user has real hardware and a supported DVD drive and no network support, they could download and burn the DVD image to get the latest package updates for their version of FreeDOS. But, if they are running FreeDOS in VirtualBox, VMware, DOSBox Staging or (possibly) QEMU, it is easier to just use a package manager to update directly from the online repositories. This is also the case if they have a working network setup and are using real hardware. But, if for whatever reason, they do not have networking and want to install the latest packages, they could just download the newest monthly test build and install that. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
