On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:48:04 +0200 Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> On 17/09/2019 01:00, Jon Brase wrote: > > My question isn't actually what packages are in base. My question is, given > > the presence of an existing MS-DOS install, what is the minimal set of > > packages that would need to be unpacked onto the MS-DOS partition *in order > > to get the package manager running*. > > FDNPKG is a stand-alone application. It can run on any DOS, not only > FreeDOS. > > > Do I just need to install the package manager itself, or does it have other > > dependencie? For instance, does it use batch scripts that require FreeCOM? > > Does it, in general, require the presence of any FreeDOS components other > > than itself? > > No dependencies. Just download FDNPKG, configure a set of repositories > (either from FreeDOS, Svarog386, or anything compatible), and that's it. > Good to know. Have it running under MS-DOS using the CD as a repository, haven't tried setting up networking yet. Under FreeDOS itself, I'm having a bit of trouble getting my CD drive set up. Specifically, having just installed components through FDNPKG, I'm having to write up my own FDCONFIG.SYS / FDAUTO.BAT, and I'm having trouble figuring out which components are current and what their usage is from the documentation. There's a "XCDROM32" (or something like that, I'm not currently at that computer) in the BIN directory, but "help xcdrom32" takes me to a help page for xcdrom, which says its deprecated and UIDE.SYS should be used instead. There's a help page for UIDE.SYS, but I can't actually find UIDE.SYS itself anywhere. Can anyone provide an example FDCONFIG / FDAUTO set that is current for FreeDOS 1.2 and contains sane defaults for a machine from circa 1995? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
