Op 18-12-2011 23:31, Pete Batard schreef: > 1. I am the developer of Rufus [1], which is a DOS-bootable USB flash > drive creation utility for Windows. One of the versions of Rufus embeds > FreeDOS (kernel + freecom) for installation as the default DOS, in lieu > of the WinMe DOS that can be extracted from diskcopy.dll.
I've recently learned about your Rufus program from the Reboot.pro forums, it seems quite interesting indeed. Would likely be a nice addition from ReactOS (which you made use of already) but as that's GPL2 while your program is GPL3 that won't be possible I guess. > 3. All the machines I have tried so far report the CHS vs LBA computed > mismatch warnings. Considering that first time FreeDOS users might be > put off because of these benign warnings, I would very much like to > avoid them. There's a list of warnings indeed. A big one at that, especially when using syslinux's "nopassany" directive to hide physical disk drive units. > Could this patch be considered for the mainline tree then? I can't answer this, as I'm no developer. It could be an interesting addition for kernel 2041 if any kernel maintainer is still active occasionally. > PS: is there a reason why one must have an AUTOEXEC.BAT present, even a > blank one, to avoid the prompts for date&time in FreeCOM? What is the > purpose of mandatory prompting for those? Remove your CMOS battery and you'll see. Basicly, ancient machines often had no battery and yet needed to have a time and date set. I guess FreeDOS follows MSDOS design in this aspect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
