> This seems a poor way do discover what I see in the initial fdconfig.sys > file created by the FreeDOS installer, which is very broken and useless
I think the FreeDOS 1.0 installer wrote a menu for these choices, which was more useful. If the new installer left you with no menu display by default, that's an error in it. > Obviously the FDCONFIG.SYS options can be selected via [01234], but it > would be nice to be able to see the boot menu and not have to blindly > select from a hidden list of options Right. The config file should use menu to display a menu, and optionally menudefault. Note that what is displayed using menu doesn't actually "create" the menu; as you see the config handling already asks you for a menu using your current (default installed?) configuration. The menu command is more like the echo command but intended for displaying the config menu. menu: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/menu.htm menudefault: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/menudef.htm > instead of unhelpful partitioning info at boot time. If you prefer, that can additionally be turned off: sys config c:\kernel.sys showdriveassignment=0 The file name here must specify the kernel that you use to boot, typically found in c:\kernel.sys. If the file name is kernel.sys and the path (typically c:\) equals the current directory then you need not specify the file name at all. The command syntax is described at http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/sys.htm The following file (kernel's sys.txt) describes these kernel settings: http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos/kernel/trunk/docs/sys.txt Regards, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
