Jerome, > I’m not sure what version of UnRAR you are using.
I used these two upstream releases to repack the latest FreeDOS 1.3 release candidate: 1. ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar/rar250.exe for decompression. FreeDOS ships the 16-bit UnRAR 2.50 binary from this release, and the IDOS.SFX module inside is what provides scripting features. 2. ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar/wrar290.exe for compression. The console RAR 2.90 binary from this release has the LFN support needed for FreeDOS source packages. > I’m not sure what you mean by installation scripting. Run rar250.exe for a demonstration. It can make the FreeDOS installer look and behave like the MS-DOS installer. (Screenshot attached.) > Lets take a couple different install situations as examples. > ... > Situation 1, Installation onto basic 286 w/EGA ... > Situation 2, Install for 486 w/VGA ... > Situation 3, Install VirtualBox, (i686 compatible) ... RAR implements the PKZIP listfile syntax, so the SETUP.BAT invocation would change to this; SET TCPU=8086 REM vinfo stuff goes here... unrar x freedos.rar @%TCPU%.txt Where the @LISTFILE corresponds to a SLICER /G %TCPU% build command. Or excluding things that don't run on an 8086 or 80286 processor could be more concise: unrar x freedos.rar -x@%TCPU%.txt > requiring additional overhead for the install program and multiple passes > through the spanned disks. RAR does only one media pass. (This is better than PKZIP, which reads the last floppy disk twice.) > Honestly, I don’t really care about SLICER. Outside of the installer, it has > almost no use and zero chance for any form of adoption by the community. I’d > rather file it in the trash can, use an existing tool and work on other > things. But to my knowledge, nothing else can do what it actually does in an > acceptable manner. The demo that I published can already do it. What are your SLICER /G inputs when building the installation media? -- I will redo the demo to more perfectly replicate current behavior.
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