Hi! Looking at the 720k boot disk for the installer, I noticed that FDISKPT.INI and FDISK.INI are quite large as the former contains many "definitions" of unknown partition types and the latter contains only comments and the end of file marker, so I suggest to reduce the comments (mention that the full version is in a zip package) and omit all unknown lines in the partition type list (test how fdisk deals with it).
The partition type list can also do without the last and longest column, if that is okay for fdisk: You could truncate it or keep only a important comments, of course testing whether fdisk is happy. In total, you could save 20 to 30 kB. I notice that your 720k floppy contains THREE kernel files and only TWO of them differ from each other, which makes it very easy to save 44 kB :-) You also have TWO versions of FDISK, although only one of them is used unless some manual intervention takes place, I believe. Again 36 or 39 kB to save. Several of the V... tools can be UPXed, saving space. You may want to use a more lightweight COUNTRY file (actually your 001,858 country line barely needs it) and some smaller alternative for FC. What is the purpose of the large slicer tool? The saved space could be used to add drivers and tools: Tools could include for example UNZIP and FIND and GREP, DEBUG, WHICHFAT, MORE / MORESYS / PG, EDIT / TED3, MODE, CHKDSK and (if 386+ target audience) DOSFSCK with CWSDPMI. Drivers could include HIMEM and UIDE, but only when you have a boot choice between 8086 compatible and 386+ mode. Drivers can also include UDVD2, SHSUCDX and SHSUCDHD, MKEYB, CTMOUSE etc. I would not LOAD EMM386 while installing: It is too little "one size fits all" for that and users can still work on their EMM386 configuration AFTER installing. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
