(this message just appeared, else I would have answered sooner)
Gerry Hickman wrote:
Hi Eric,
you should try ODIN or the bootdisks on fdos.org (fdos.org/kernel/ also
has the newest kernel and shell versions,
More zip files, more URLs!
http://fd-odin.dosius.com/ (says it's the "primary" but I get DNS lookup
failure)
this is the original site where the Odin distribution was published
http://odin.fdos.org/ (this one seems to work)
http://www.ibiblio.org/ (who knows?)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1disk/odin060/
these are mirrors of the Odin distribution, though now seem to be the
primary locations (the fdos one also has the old versions)
http://sourceforce.net/ (various)
http://www.fdos.org/ (says it's a mirror but looks different)
it is both; it mirrors the main freedos.org site, visit
http://www.fdos.org/freedos.html or for the Spanish (little outdated)
http://www.fdos.org/es/FreeDOS.htm
the rest of the site is where I post my FreeDOS related stuff, or anyone
else who has expressed an interest but doesn't have hosting abilities;
in particular, official distributions would be here first then I'd
mirror to ibiblio, I have boot disks (trying to get people to use
alternate disk images than the install one), and currently where I
upload near daily cvs builds of the kernel & freecom.
http://www.freedos.org/ (seems to be down right now)
probably visited during the move?
Then they all have links to even more links, and some go round in
circles, way too much information for my type of brain.
:-) Your not the only one, but some days its fun just following them,
even revisiting old information I'd forgotten
In short, ODIN has the very strange property of "defaulting to F5 style
boot". But it has lots of software included, while the fdos.org boot-
disks are very "bare" :-).
I generally have more to do than I have time, so I try to setup builds
available on my sites to be automatic; periodically checking on them.
So the fdos.org ones are generated from a script, shortly it will be
easy for me to add other FreeDOS programs and ensure they are updated.
Presently only the kernel & umbpci are easily updated, but with upcoming
changes, I will be able to automatically update multiple locations (disk
images, iso, downloads) by a single commit of updated sources. I can
detail my work in progress for the curious, but that's a separate thread.
I think that's what I need, the "bare boot disks". I didn't find them
while browsing www.freedos.org, but I'll check the other sites. I found
http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/
the official CD-ROM image and FDos1440.img files were too complicated,
but I understand some people want installable versions that
automatically detect hardware.
...
(of course you can also work without any UMBPCI/EMM386... I prefer the
usbaspi4 and aspidisk drivers for USB, by the way, even DEVLOADable well)
These are news to me! Do you ahve URLs? I'm having problems with USB on
machines that don't support it in BIOS properly such as ASUS A7V333.
I believe aspidisk is included with ASPI drivers; I know source to a
basic one is available with Adaptec's ASPI sdk, but I don't recall any
exact links offhand.
A couple USB [for DOS] sites (mostly contain duplicate information, a
few links no longer work, and it should be noted I haven't tried any of
them, not using USB myself):
http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/
http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13288.html
ftp://ftp.pierskalla.com/pub/dosusb/installing_windows_using_usb_con.htm
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.os.free-dos/browse_thread/thread/ca7e1c4a17c33338
http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/index.htm
http://www.lvr.com/usb.htm
http://www.usb.org/
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