Quoting "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net>:
Stephen Stafford wrote:
I had a spare half hour, so I threw together a bootable iso image which uses freedos. ........
Thank you for making this available.
At a size of 57.3-MB, that is a fairly quick and reasonable download for anyone with a high-speed connection. (Those with a dialup modem might wish to abstain.)
Looking at it, we really don't need the FreeDOS installer files, or anything in the "EXTRAS" directory. A fair amount of the stuff on the image is surplus to requirements in fact. The isolinux stuff isn't really required if we're not providing multiple boot option. When I get a day spare, I'll have a look and see how minimal it can actually get. Intuitively I'd be stunned if it couldn't be reduced to 10MB or less. This one was just a proof of concept, I didn't bother to pare it down at all. I have no idea how big the Fractal Creations stuff is. I think it would be nice if we could keep the whole project down to a size that would fit on a business card CD. I believe that's 50MB roughly, so whatever goes on there should fit into that ideally. I know that it's the kind of thing I'd like to be able to hand to clients "This is fun, boot it up and have a play". Does anyone know how big the Fractal Creations data is exactly? A nice thing might be to include the pars for every one of Jim Muth's FOTD or similar. Assuming that Jim allows that of course. They are fairly small provided you put several per file. In terms of download size, the image should compress fairly well too. Cheers, -- Stephen Stafford | Development and support consultant <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk> | http://www.clothcat.org <ssta@clothcat.org> | Never put off until tomorrow what you can <bagpuss@debian.org> | con someone into doing for you today ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.