Hi Thalis!
If FreeDOS took hours for you to install, you might have tried to install everything and the sources. This can be 100s of megabytes and if you are not a programmer, you will rarely touch the source code. To have a result more similar to MS DOS 7, simply install only the "base" packages. You could even try a basic install floppy :-) Extra packages can be installed with the package managers or often by just unzipping the packages without management. It could also be that something went wrong with a default driver config for network, USB, memory or disk / CD, slowing down the whole install process? In that case, install with more basic boot config. FreeDOS has more support for modern hardware, but it would be very interesting to hear which MS DOS programs fail in which ways for you with FreeDOS. On old hardware, it can be useful that FreeDOS has smaller drivers, so more RAM is free for your apps, but you should expect the need to tune the EMM386 configuration in different ways than with MS DOS. Using only XMS / HMA drivers is easier, but gives less impressive amounts of free memory. For running apps in general, the differences between MS DOS 7 and FreeDOS are relatively small either way. Price and license differ significantly, of course :-) Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
