Hi Jerome,
> https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2020/05/freedos-13-rc3-coming-soon--update-on-floppy-edition/ The page (by Jim and Aitor, it says) writes: > FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 coming soon + update on Floppy Edition > > Work on FreeDOS 1.3 has slowed since FreeDOS 1.3-RC2, but things are > still moving forward. We have been tracking FreeDOS 1.3 packages on > the FreeDOS wiki. Jerome has been doing most of the package work on > this, and has also been working on updates to the FreeDOS 1.3 > installer. We don't have the FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 ready yet, but wanted to > share this extra update: > > Jerome is planning to add a special "Floppy Edition" of the FreeDOS > 1.3 distribution, for those folks who run classic PC hardware that > don't support CD-ROM media. Jerome shares these notes on the Floppy > Edition: + Should run on any PC hardware that runs FreeDOS, maybe > even 8086 (requires EGA though) + Requires 720k or higher capacity > floppies (not enough capacity on 360k floppies to hold everything for > the installer) + Only runs in ADV (advanced mode) or AUTO (automatic > headless mode) and a few other things + Supports a preset install > path from the command (for example, SETUP AUTO ADV C:\FREEDOS) + > Skips installing programs not supported on your CPU (on a '286, this > skips 386-only programs like CWSDPMI) + Don't forget to read the > Readme file. Would you like to test the new Floppy Edition? Testers > needed! You can find the test release of the new FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 > Floppy Edition at our files archive on ibiblio. The last time when I had a 8086 at home was when a school gave away some really old classroom computers. Which is what motivated me to tinker on that tiny terminal somebody later made a BIOS extension variant from :-) The thing was: Most of the computers did NOT have EGA, that really was a luxury. They also tended to have only small floppy drives. So if you really want to target such hardware, there should be plain text mode support :-) And remember: XT are very slow. How far away are 360k disks from containing the installer, by the way? Regards, Eric PS: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=16677 says HWiNFO 6.1.1 for DOS is available. Thanks RayeR, Vogons and author! _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
