Hi Jerome
I'll email you offlist with a screenshot of the "Partitioner" typo.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net>
wrote:
>
> Hello Jim and All,
>
> Changed the English language “Select Language” text.
>
> Changed all “wish to” to “want to”.
>
> I removed all of the Periods for options.
>
> I removed the Background fill character from the default theme.
>
> (That all took about 2 minutes)
>
> Waiting on reply from Jim to finalize default theme color scheme.
>
> I could not locate the typo in:
>
> "Yes - Partition drive %1"
>
> Do you mean that it says “Partition drive D:?” If so, that is not a typo
> it is the true drive letter where FreeDOS will be installed. Usually, when
> booting from a USB stick under DOS, the BIOS pushes the C: drive down
> a letter to D:. On some systems, it does not. FDI does some detection
> to determine wether C: or D: should be the target for the installation.
>
> I understand this can be a little confusing to the user. I think it would
> be
> a very bad idea to always just say C:. However, with just a little work,
> I could have Normal mode just refer to it as “your hard drive” and other
> vague terms.
>
>
> > My suggestion is to leave it as-is, and add a note in the release notes
> for folks who use VirtualBox. I think "not compatible with VirtualBox"
> means it doesn't break/damage anything, it just doesn't work (well). If so,
> that suggests it's okay to leave in.
>
> Sounds good to me. It basically locks up immediately during the loading of
> JEMMX. Maybe later, if I get around to adding a VirtualBox detector to
> V8Power Tools. I will have it set a different default option for VirtualBox
> during installation.
>
> >
> > 2) 4DOS is always shown as a boot option. At present, 4DOS is not
> installed with BASE. It is only installed with ALL. Always Remove, Remove
> if not installed, Always install, Ignore issue?
> >
> > I saw that, and also noted that it only worked if you installed all
> packages. But a quick reboot lets someone pick something else.
> >
> > Option 1 is to leave it in, and add a note on the option like "(only if
> you installed everything)". But that might be awkward.
> >
> > Option 2 would be to remove the option, and assume only power users will
> experiment with 4DOS. These users can edit their own CONFIG.SYS to specify
> 4DOS.
>
> I will just remove the 4DOS option from the CONFIG.SYS file. Easiest for
> me. :-)
>
> Thanks again. Jerome
>
>
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