> So, by all means, if you want to test it, download it. > If not, wait until the final release and then the next cycle of > improvements can be made. I think the largest test population in the > wild would be if Erwin Veermans included the testing kernel on his > Nwdsk (Netware bootdisk).
I successfully performed full test-runs of my FreeDOS bloated NwDsk NetWare boot disk (including the always picky NIOS.EXE) using the combination of kernel 2034rc, himem/emm386 from emm386rc, freecom 0.82pl3, udma 7.0, lbacache 14apr04, cdrcache 07apr04, shsucdx 2.1a, cutemouse 1.9 (all installed/loaded). Optionally I added/tested fdapm 27nov03 and mkeyb 0.39. Michael has provided me with some special himem testversions to tackle problems with DELL PowerEdges with big ram (2GB). Himem-rc is jamming on those. We are currently busy to pinpoint the chipset/bios or the huge size of ram as the culprit using some extra himem-switches. When Michael releases his final himem/emm386 and Tom makes that official (and compresses it as hard as he can !) I will submit a new NwDsk containing all above updates (including kernel) at the Novell site while hoping that it behaves just as smooth for my users as it does on my own test-machines ;-) Or I will get more NwDsk-email than spam for once ... As with Bernd: we can test as good as we can but only when it gets out on all exotic hardware/software of our end-users we know where we stand. For my NwDsk I expect little impact from 2034 but I will be closely whatching the acceptance of switching from UMBPCI to EMM386 (though it looks very promising!). Erwin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
