[Freedos-user] floppy installer backup feature broken

2021-12-16 Thread Darik Horn
The FreeDOS 1.3-RC5 floppy installer always fails if the user chooses a system backup: Creating backup of previous OS files to C:\BACKUP.001. ERROR #1, Subprocess error Failed. CRITICAL error: Unable to backup files in target directory. The installation of FreeDOS 1.3-RC5 has been

Re: [Freedos-user] slicer-0.17 error code #2

2021-12-16 Thread Darik Horn
> I went with gzip first because it’s small and 8086 compatible. But now that > it does at least one, it could easily have others added. Like maybe (bz2, > p7zip, etc). It wouldn’t take much to add them. The new gzip feature is likely optimal, especially for 16bit+1meg machines. I've done a

Re: [Freedos-user] slicer-0.17 error code #2

2021-12-16 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On Dec 16, 2021, at 1:49 PM, Darik Horn wrote: > > NB: https://gitlab.com/DOSx86/slicer/-/merge_requests/1 > > There seems to be a related bug with /e and /i handling, which are > no-ops on my test machine. Could be. Originally, those switches we designed for mostly creating an

Re: [Freedos-user] slicer-0.17 error code #2

2021-12-16 Thread Darik Horn
NB: https://gitlab.com/DOSx86/slicer/-/merge_requests/1 There seems to be a related bug with /e and /i handling, which are no-ops on my test machine. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net