Re: [Freedos-user] Ontrack Disk Manager

2022-01-24 Thread Darik Horn
Ontrack is a super nice contribution by Kroll because it is important
software for old motherboards.  In order to make Ontrack better conform
with FreeDOS licensing rules, I removed most of the non-free software in
the dist package and put it here:

*
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SuBdp6TmXmWj2GYFvDfnxv8r6gQr9UhQ?usp=sharing


Changes from the upstream release in the ontrack-9.88.0-freedos.ima.xz file
are:

1. The DMZIP1.EXE and DMZIP2.EXE files are combined and repacked as the
DM.CAB file. This reduces distribution size from two floppy disks to one
floppy disk, but the actual application software is unmodified.

2. DR-DOS system components are replaced by FreeDOS equivalents.

3. The AUTOEXEC.BAT file is accordingly rewritten.

4. The SPLASH.EXE utility is compressed by UPX.

5. The DDO is preinstalled to the floppy boot area so that the FreeDOS
kernel does not complain about LBA translation errors involving large disks
and/or large partitions at boot time.
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[Freedos-user] Ontrack Disk Manager

2022-01-24 Thread Darik Horn
Regarding this old ticket:

* https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/211/

FreeDOS 1.3 is compatible with Ontrack v9.57 and Ontrack v9.88.  I tested
these disk overlays on a 486 with AMIBIOS 2.02, which has the 504 MB
addressing limit.

Kroll released their Ontrack software to the retro computing community at
zero-cost per:

* https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ontrack-disk-manager.html
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