> On Apr 29, 2026, at 12:04 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > [..] > I agree, we should remove this from the distribution. It may be too > late to remove it for T2605 (days away) but certainly it should be > removed for T2606. > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 9:09 AM Fritz Mueller wrote: >> >> Hi, >> whereas the program shsurdrv works fine, shsufdrv works on MS-DOS but not >> FreeDOS. >> I already asked the programmer some time ago and he confirmed this. >> So my question: Why having a program in the distribution that is not usable? >> >
SHSUFDRV and SHSURDRV are both part of the same package SHSUFDRV. SHSURDRV.EXE is used on most systems and virtual machines by the primary FreeDOS installer to create temporary storage space when no hard disk has yet been partitioned and formatted. It is preferred over using SRDISK because it can be told to keep a minimum amount of XMS memory available for programs on systems whose available memory is not known. If SHSURDRV.EXE fails to allocate a RAM drive (Or always under QEMU), it will fall back and attempt to allocate a RAM drive using SRDISK. While the FreeDOS installer “can” run without any RAM drive or temporary storage, removing the SHSUFDRV package will greatly curtail some of its functionality which occurs prior to partitioning and formatting the internal disk on many systems. Only relying on SRDISK (when supported) can also result in having no free XMS when booting from the LiveCD, which could prevent the user from trying various games and programs. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
