Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

[Mateusz Viste]

On 25/11/2015 02:05, Don Flowers wrote:
> Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg is all out
> of whack.

That's unlikely. I included more than enough of whack inside FDNPKG so 
it never runs out of it. Surely the problem must be different.

Mateusz




> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mateusz Viste  > wrote:
>
> On 24/11/2015 16:32, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> > Is there an Ibiblio link?
>
> As usual, yes :)
>
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip
>
> Also updatable from itself, ie: FDNPKG UPDATE FDNPKG
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
>  > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:40:41 +0100 Mateusz Viste
> mailto:mate...@viste.fr>>
>  > writes:
>  >> Hi all,
>  >>
>  >> I released FDNPKG v0.99.3 today. This is a purely bugfix release,
>  >> I'd
>  >> highly recommend upgrading any older version.
>  >>
>  >> FDNPKG v0.99.3 [23 Nov 2015]
>  >> - [fix] files zipped uncompressed are extracted correctly (v0.99.2
>  >> regress),
>  >> - [fix] closing file descriptors on install failure (no risk of fs
>  >> trashing).
>  >>
>  >> http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net
>  >>
>  >> Mateusz Viste
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux/exfat

[Geraldo Netto]

Hello Alain/All,

Well, i won't promise do to now but it should be easy
sometime ago i was hacking on it but i didn't finish the changes
now i'm back to work (java) after some "forced" sabbatical months (no
customers/projects - oops...)

Also, we have to mention that Joe have a working implementation of exfat
so, you can at least read exfat partitions with his ltools like exfat :)

i'm saying this because this freedos on linux thread started
when Alain made his virtualbox image available as a way to overcome
the exfat issue
and of course, using linux enable us to do a lot of interesting things
but we have to keep in mind that old machines are not suitable to run linux
so, this is why i'm talking about Joe's exfat driver


Kind Regards,

Geraldo Netto
Sapere Aude => Non dvcor, dvco
http://exdev.sf.net/


On 24 November 2015 at 18:08, Alain Mouette  wrote:
>
>
> On 23-11-2015 14:34, Geraldo Netto wrote:
>>> A better alternative would be to start with a minimal version od Ubuntu
>>> and stripp some things off.
>> For this, maybe you could use the 'uck - ubuntu customization kit'
>> Last version is from  2013 but with a few changes you can easily
>> remaster ubuntu in a few minutes...
> This looks like an alternative, are you willing to five it a try for
> next LTS?
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

[Don Flowers]

I am getting a (-15) error on almost every package in the NLS
extraction and the actual binaries. I eventually extracted the
"boot.img"  and copied the new fdnpkg files to it and the extracted
the "all_cd" files to a directory on my hard drive and adjusted the
FDNPKG.CFG file. It works fine this way, but I never had a problem
with the all_cd before.

On 11/25/15, Mateusz Viste  wrote:
> On 25/11/2015 02:05, Don Flowers wrote:
>> Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg is all out
>> of whack.
>
> That's unlikely. I included more than enough of whack inside FDNPKG so
> it never runs out of it. Surely the problem must be different.
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mateusz Viste > > wrote:
>>
>> On 24/11/2015 16:32, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>> > Is there an Ibiblio link?
>>
>> As usual, yes :)
>>
>>
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip
>>
>> Also updatable from itself, ie: FDNPKG UPDATE FDNPKG
>>
>> Mateusz
>>
>>
>>
>>  > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:40:41 +0100 Mateusz Viste
>> mailto:mate...@viste.fr>>
>>  > writes:
>>  >> Hi all,
>>  >>
>>  >> I released FDNPKG v0.99.3 today. This is a purely bugfix release,
>>  >> I'd
>>  >> highly recommend upgrading any older version.
>>  >>
>>  >> FDNPKG v0.99.3 [23 Nov 2015]
>>  >> - [fix] files zipped uncompressed are extracted correctly
>> (v0.99.2
>>  >> regress),
>>  >> - [fix] closing file descriptors on install failure (no risk of
>> fs
>>  >> trashing).
>>  >>
>>  >> http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net
>>  >>
>>  >> Mateusz Viste
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >
>>
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Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

[Mateusz Viste]

Thanks for the more detailed report. Can you confirm please that you get 
all the "-15" errors using FNDPKG v0.99.3, and not any earlier version? 
To know the exact version you are using, simply run FDNPKG without any 
arguments. It will print its version somewhere at the top of the screen.

-15 is a general failure of the deflate library, so if this does happen 
on the latest version of FDNPKG, then it is quite alarming. I 
triple-checked the installation of various BASE packages using v0.99.3, 
but haven't got into any troubles. Can you provide the name of one 
package you have problems with, so I can test this one specifically?

Note, that the FDNPKG binary on the bootable image is quite old - 
probably v0.98 or so.

Mateusz



On 25/11/2015 16:32, Don Flowers wrote:
> I am getting a (-15) error on almost every package in the NLS
> extraction and the actual binaries. I eventually extracted the
> "boot.img"  and copied the new fdnpkg files to it and the extracted
> the "all_cd" files to a directory on my hard drive and adjusted the
> FDNPKG.CFG file. It works fine this way, but I never had a problem
> with the all_cd before.
>
> On 11/25/15, Mateusz Viste  wrote:
>> On 25/11/2015 02:05, Don Flowers wrote:
>>> Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg is all out
>>> of whack.
>>
>> That's unlikely. I included more than enough of whack inside FDNPKG so
>> it never runs out of it. Surely the problem must be different.
>>
>> Mateusz
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mateusz Viste >> > wrote:
>>>
>>>  On 24/11/2015 16:32, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>>>  > Is there an Ibiblio link?
>>>
>>>  As usual, yes :)
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip
>>>
>>>  Also updatable from itself, ie: FDNPKG UPDATE FDNPKG
>>>
>>>  Mateusz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:40:41 +0100 Mateusz Viste
>>>  mailto:mate...@viste.fr>>
>>>   > writes:
>>>   >> Hi all,
>>>   >>
>>>   >> I released FDNPKG v0.99.3 today. This is a purely bugfix release,
>>>   >> I'd
>>>   >> highly recommend upgrading any older version.
>>>   >>
>>>   >> FDNPKG v0.99.3 [23 Nov 2015]
>>>   >> - [fix] files zipped uncompressed are extracted correctly
>>> (v0.99.2
>>>   >> regress),
>>>   >> - [fix] closing file descriptors on install failure (no risk of
>>> fs
>>>   >> trashing).
>>>   >>
>>>   >> http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net
>>>   >>
>>>   >> Mateusz Viste
>>>   >>
>>>   >>



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[Freedos-user] boot manager for dOs?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi all,
being very focused with my question to avoid off  topic chatter.
does anyone know of a boot management comparative to say grub,  that runs 
in pure DOS?
as in a tool that would let me, if I choose, load another edition of an 
operating system that has been installed on a different partition?
Thanks,
Karen


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Re: [Freedos-user] boot manager for dOs?

[Mateusz Viste]

On 25/11/2015 18:59, Karen Lewellen wrote:
 > does anyone know of a boot management comparative to say grub, that
 > runs in pure DOS?
 > as in a tool that would let me, if I choose, load another edition of
 > an operating system that has been installed on a different partition?

The boot manager itself runs without an OS. Hence Grub is 
platform-agnostic. The configuration tool for such boot manager however 
does need an operating system. A DOS version of the grub configurator 
exists. I haven't ever tried it, but heard it works.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos

Myself, I only ever used a custom boot manager a few times, and it was 
one called 'BootIt NG'. I recall it worked pretty well, but it was 
somewhere 15 years ago, when I played with multi-booting FreeDOS, 
Windows 98 and some Linux flavors. Apparently BootIt NG is still out there:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

Mateusz


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Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

[Don Flowers]

Hey Mateusz,
I usually start my clean install from the all_cd.iso with FDNPKG install
kernel, but since you announced the update to FDNPKG, I tried to install
FDNPKG first. After loading the db to temp it begins the install but then
produces several (-15) errors in the DOC, NLS and BIN directory ending with
a zero byte .EXE for FDNPKG and FDNINST.  When I install from the all_cd, I
first have to modify the boot.img file to install ahci.sys for my SATA
drive, so it is necessary for me (and others I would presume) for any
update to the A: part of the all_cd.iso to have updated files. That is what
was messing me  up. The fdnpkg.cfg file was updated, but it appears (and I
will have to double-check my assumption) that the FDNPKG.EXE file is not
updated. This seems to create the crc errors. I have used this SATA driver
on another computer (on older all_cd.iso downloads) and it always performed
flawlessly.

But one other thing I shoud report is that I tried an experimantal
extraction with PKUNZIP version 2.50 and it reported CRC errors in the few
random packages I tried to extract. I have not yet tried this after
creating the on-disk repo.

I am now iin the midst of Thanksgiving prep, so I will try another clean
install over the weekend.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Mateusz Viste  wrote:

> Thanks for the more detailed report. Can you confirm please that you get
> all the "-15" errors using FNDPKG v0.99.3, and not any earlier version?
> To know the exact version you are using, simply run FDNPKG without any
> arguments. It will print its version somewhere at the top of the screen.
>
> -15 is a general failure of the deflate library, so if this does happen
> on the latest version of FDNPKG, then it is quite alarming. I
> triple-checked the installation of various BASE packages using v0.99.3,
> but haven't got into any troubles. Can you provide the name of one
> package you have problems with, so I can test this one specifically?
>
> Note, that the FDNPKG binary on the bootable image is quite old -
> probably v0.98 or so.
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
> On 25/11/2015 16:32, Don Flowers wrote:
> > I am getting a (-15) error on almost every package in the NLS
> > extraction and the actual binaries. I eventually extracted the
> > "boot.img"  and copied the new fdnpkg files to it and the extracted
> > the "all_cd" files to a directory on my hard drive and adjusted the
> > FDNPKG.CFG file. It works fine this way, but I never had a problem
> > with the all_cd before.
> >
> > On 11/25/15, Mateusz Viste  wrote:
> >> On 25/11/2015 02:05, Don Flowers wrote:
> >>> Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg is all out
> >>> of whack.
> >>
> >> That's unlikely. I included more than enough of whack inside FDNPKG so
> >> it never runs out of it. Surely the problem must be different.
> >>
> >> Mateusz
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mateusz Viste  >>> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  On 24/11/2015 16:32, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> >>>  > Is there an Ibiblio link?
> >>>
> >>>  As usual, yes :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip
> >>>
> >>>  Also updatable from itself, ie: FDNPKG UPDATE FDNPKG
> >>>
> >>>  Mateusz
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:40:41 +0100 Mateusz Viste
> >>>  mailto:mate...@viste.fr>>
> >>>   > writes:
> >>>   >> Hi all,
> >>>   >>
> >>>   >> I released FDNPKG v0.99.3 today. This is a purely bugfix
> release,
> >>>   >> I'd
> >>>   >> highly recommend upgrading any older version.
> >>>   >>
> >>>   >> FDNPKG v0.99.3 [23 Nov 2015]
> >>>   >> - [fix] files zipped uncompressed are extracted correctly
> >>> (v0.99.2
> >>>   >> regress),
> >>>   >> - [fix] closing file descriptors on install failure (no risk
> of
> >>> fs
> >>>   >> trashing).
> >>>   >>
> >>>   >> http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net
> >>>   >>
> >>>   >> Mateusz Viste
> >>>   >>
> >>>   >>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] boot manager for dOs?

[Don Flowers]

I am currently testing Terabyte BootIT baremetal which is the successor to
BING. That said I have had sucess with Smart Boot Manager (it is
configurable with the asm package so you can adjust colors and even change
the title to correspond to your business). My favorite of the open source
BM,s is XOSL, once setup it is quite elegant and if you install grub in the
root or boot directory of your linux partition, it will load grub as well.
Since installing Windows 10 however, XOSL and W10 are not on good terms. I
have also tested OSL2000 but IMHO it is not worth the $25 price. If you
don't mind the generic partition titles in your menu the Ranish Partition
Manager has a perfectly adequate boot manager.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Mateusz Viste  wrote:

> On 25/11/2015 18:59, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>  > does anyone know of a boot management comparative to say grub, that
>  > runs in pure DOS?
>  > as in a tool that would let me, if I choose, load another edition of
>  > an operating system that has been installed on a different partition?
>
> The boot manager itself runs without an OS. Hence Grub is
> platform-agnostic. The configuration tool for such boot manager however
> does need an operating system. A DOS version of the grub configurator
> exists. I haven't ever tried it, but heard it works.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos
>
> Myself, I only ever used a custom boot manager a few times, and it was
> one called 'BootIt NG'. I recall it worked pretty well, but it was
> somewhere 15 years ago, when I played with multi-booting FreeDOS,
> Windows 98 and some Linux flavors. Apparently BootIt NG is still out there:
>
> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
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Re: [Freedos-user] boot manager for dOs?

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Karen Lewellen
 wrote:
>
> does anyone know of a boot management comparative to say grub,  that runs
> in pure DOS?
> as in a tool that would let me, if I choose, load another edition of an
> operating system that has been installed on a different partition?

The Software List has a "BOOT" category:

http://freedos.sourceforge.net/software/?cat=boot

It's not everything and the kitchen sink, but it's perhaps a few that
are worth keeping around (including some already mentioned here).

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Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

[Don Flowers]

I just boot the latest all_cd.iso and the fdnpkg version on it is 0.96

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Don Flowers  wrote:

> Hey Mateusz,
> I usually start my clean install from the all_cd.iso with FDNPKG install
> kernel, but since you announced the update to FDNPKG, I tried to install
> FDNPKG first. After loading the db to temp it begins the install but then
> produces several (-15) errors in the DOC, NLS and BIN directory ending with
> a zero byte .EXE for FDNPKG and FDNINST.  When I install from the all_cd, I
> first have to modify the boot.img file to install ahci.sys for my SATA
> drive, so it is necessary for me (and others I would presume) for any
> update to the A: part of the all_cd.iso to have updated files. That is what
> was messing me  up. The fdnpkg.cfg file was updated, but it appears (and I
> will have to double-check my assumption) that the FDNPKG.EXE file is not
> updated. This seems to create the crc errors. I have used this SATA driver
> on another computer (on older all_cd.iso downloads) and it always performed
> flawlessly.
>
> But one other thing I shoud report is that I tried an experimantal
> extraction with PKUNZIP version 2.50 and it reported CRC errors in the few
> random packages I tried to extract. I have not yet tried this after
> creating the on-disk repo.
>
> I am now iin the midst of Thanksgiving prep, so I will try another clean
> install over the weekend.
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Mateusz Viste  wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the more detailed report. Can you confirm please that you get
>> all the "-15" errors using FNDPKG v0.99.3, and not any earlier version?
>> To know the exact version you are using, simply run FDNPKG without any
>> arguments. It will print its version somewhere at the top of the screen.
>>
>> -15 is a general failure of the deflate library, so if this does happen
>> on the latest version of FDNPKG, then it is quite alarming. I
>> triple-checked the installation of various BASE packages using v0.99.3,
>> but haven't got into any troubles. Can you provide the name of one
>> package you have problems with, so I can test this one specifically?
>>
>> Note, that the FDNPKG binary on the bootable image is quite old -
>> probably v0.98 or so.
>>
>> Mateusz
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/11/2015 16:32, Don Flowers wrote:
>> > I am getting a (-15) error on almost every package in the NLS
>> > extraction and the actual binaries. I eventually extracted the
>> > "boot.img"  and copied the new fdnpkg files to it and the extracted
>> > the "all_cd" files to a directory on my hard drive and adjusted the
>> > FDNPKG.CFG file. It works fine this way, but I never had a problem
>> > with the all_cd before.
>> >
>> > On 11/25/15, Mateusz Viste  wrote:
>> >> On 25/11/2015 02:05, Don Flowers wrote:
>> >>> Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg is all out
>> >>> of whack.
>> >>
>> >> That's unlikely. I included more than enough of whack inside FDNPKG so
>> >> it never runs out of it. Surely the problem must be different.
>> >>
>> >> Mateusz
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mateusz Viste > >>> > wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>  On 24/11/2015 16:32, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>> >>>  > Is there an Ibiblio link?
>> >>>
>> >>>  As usual, yes :)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip
>> >>>
>> >>>  Also updatable from itself, ie: FDNPKG UPDATE FDNPKG
>> >>>
>> >>>  Mateusz
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>   > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:40:41 +0100 Mateusz Viste
>> >>>  mailto:mate...@viste.fr>>
>> >>>   > writes:
>> >>>   >> Hi all,
>> >>>   >>
>> >>>   >> I released FDNPKG v0.99.3 today. This is a purely bugfix
>> release,
>> >>>   >> I'd
>> >>>   >> highly recommend upgrading any older version.
>> >>>   >>
>> >>>   >> FDNPKG v0.99.3 [23 Nov 2015]
>> >>>   >> - [fix] files zipped uncompressed are extracted correctly
>> >>> (v0.99.2
>> >>>   >> regress),
>> >>>   >> - [fix] closing file descriptors on install failure (no risk
>> of
>> >>> fs
>> >>>   >> trashing).
>> >>>   >>
>> >>>   >> http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net
>> >>>   >>
>> >>>   >> Mateusz Viste
>> >>>   >>
>> >>>   >>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

[Mateusz Viste]

Okay, I'm not sure I understand the wholeness of your situation, but is 
it right to sum it up like this? "you had troubles because of using a 
severly outdated FDNPKG v0.96 that was embedded inside the boot.img 
portion of all_cd.iso" ?

If that's correct, then the problem should be gone by now, since I 
updated the all_cd.iso's boot image yesterday with latest FDNPKG 
(v0.99.3). Can you confirm it's all good for you now?

The fact that you get CRC errors using pkunzip is odd, though. Sounds 
like it might be some hardware trouble, or disk/cd driver incompatibility...

Mateusz



On 26/11/2015 00:02, Don Flowers wrote:
> I just boot the latest all_cd.iso and the fdnpkg version on it is 0.96
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Don Flowers  > wrote:
>
> Hey Mateusz,
> I usually start my clean install from the all_cd.iso with FDNPKG
> install kernel, but since you announced the update to FDNPKG, I
> tried to install FDNPKG first. After loading the db to temp it
> begins the install but then produces several (-15) errors in the
> DOC, NLS and BIN directory ending with a zero byte .EXE for FDNPKG
> and FDNINST.  When I install from the all_cd, I first have to modify
> the boot.img file to install ahci.sys for my SATA drive, so it is
> necessary for me (and others I would presume) for any update to the
> A: part of the all_cd.iso to have updated files. That is what was
> messing me  up. The fdnpkg.cfg file was updated, but it appears (and
> I will have to double-check my assumption) that the FDNPKG.EXE file
> is not updated. This seems to create the crc errors. I have used
> this SATA driver on another computer (on older all_cd.iso downloads)
> and it always performed flawlessly.
>
> But one other thing I shoud report is that I tried an experimantal
> extraction with PKUNZIP version 2.50 and it reported CRC errors in
> the few random packages I tried to extract. I have not yet tried
> this after creating the on-disk repo.
>
> I am now iin the midst of Thanksgiving prep, so I will try another
> clean install over the weekend.
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Mateusz Viste  > wrote:
>
> Thanks for the more detailed report. Can you confirm please that
> you get
> all the "-15" errors using FNDPKG v0.99.3, and not any earlier
> version?
> To know the exact version you are using, simply run FDNPKG
> without any
> arguments. It will print its version somewhere at the top of the
> screen.
>
> -15 is a general failure of the deflate library, so if this does
> happen
> on the latest version of FDNPKG, then it is quite alarming. I
> triple-checked the installation of various BASE packages using
> v0.99.3,
> but haven't got into any troubles. Can you provide the name of one
> package you have problems with, so I can test this one specifically?
>
> Note, that the FDNPKG binary on the bootable image is quite old -
> probably v0.98 or so.
>
> Mateusz
>
>
>
> On 25/11/2015 16:32, Don Flowers wrote:
>  > I am getting a (-15) error on almost every package in the NLS
>  > extraction and the actual binaries. I eventually extracted the
>  > "boot.img"  and copied the new fdnpkg files to it and the
> extracted
>  > the "all_cd" files to a directory on my hard drive and
> adjusted the
>  > FDNPKG.CFG file. It works fine this way, but I never had a
> problem
>  > with the all_cd before.
>  >
>  > On 11/25/15, Mateusz Viste  > wrote:
>  >> On 25/11/2015 02:05, Don Flowers wrote:
>  >>> Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg
> is all out
>  >>> of whack.
>  >>
>  >> That's unlikely. I included more than enough of whack inside
> FDNPKG so
>  >> it never runs out of it. Surely the problem must be different.
>  >>
>  >> Mateusz
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mateusz Viste
> mailto:mate...@viste.fr>
>  >>> >> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>  On 24/11/2015 16:32, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>  >>>  > Is there an Ibiblio link?
>  >>>
>  >>>  As usual, yes :)
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip
>  >>>
>  >>>  Also updatable from itself, ie: FDNPKG UPDATE FDNPKG
>  >>>
>  >>>  Mateusz
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>   > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:40:41 +0100 Mateusz Viste
>