Hi Florian, >> USBDOS device scan is part of install but should >> only be done AFTER install, no USB devices used DURING install > > USB support in FreeDOS?
The FreeDOS 1.0 FULL distro defaults to downloading various proprietary but free USB drivers (which can hang because the NIC and DHCP autoconfig can hang) and then run the drivers. Alledgedly to allow you to access USB drives during install, but you cannot easily switch the target to the USB drive at that late moment during install, and the USB bus scan also had a considerable risk of hanging or crashing. Because of those crash-risks, I recommend that FreeDOS 1.1 delays all downloads and USB bus scans to after installing an initial working system. This will make initial install much faster and much more reliable. We have a POSTINST step already so it would be easy to move risky activities to there :-). Note that this only affects FULL, because BASE does not include software which involves networking or other crash risks as part of the install process :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
