On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > In case it hasn't already been made obvious, this is a warning for > inexperienced users who (surprise!) would rather NOT wipe out their existing > OS and data if all they want to do is play around and experiment with DOS.
> Perhaps it needs to mention that VMs (e.g. QEMU) are a much safer > alternative. Jim Hall responded: > Yes, this warning exists because I received about a dozen complaints > from very unhappy people after the 1.1 distribution. These people > downloaded FreeDOS, went through the install process, and were > surprised they had wiped out their Windows partition. So I put a note > on the http://www.freedos.org/download/ page that let people know this > might wipe out their C: drive. The complaints stopped after that, but > it didn't seem to dent our number of downloads each week. > I'm building the new website. I'll update the notice to encourage new > users to install FreeDOS in a virtual machine. Even better might be to install FreeDOS onto a USB stick. User must still be sure to know where the installer is installing to, to avoid trashing something on the hard drive like a Windows installation. I have no hard drive to install FreeDOS to, or for that matter ReactOS or even eComStation, because I use GPT on hard drives. On the matter of FreeDOS suffering from hardware incompatibility with modern computers, that applies also to (open-source) ReactOS and (commercial closed-source and very outdated) eComStation. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
