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2004-02-05
The FreeDOS Beta 9 Distribution is now available on ibiblio and Fdos.org. This release is available as an ISO image
For your convenience we also provide a 1.44MB bootdisk image.
(A complete diskette distribution still lacks, though.)
please see the readme file for more info.Hello list,
This 4th prerelease has finally seen daylight in order to have recent packages distributed together and features many updates.
Highlight of this release is that you can consider FAT32 formatting no longer experimental. Another important thing is the ability to easily build a bootdisk. (for experimenting it can create a dualboot disk if you insert a win98 bootdisk,
instead of an empty diskette)The cdrom features a more intuitive installation process by automatically determining in which phase of the installation you are (partitioning, formatting, installing, transfer system files)
finally, HIMEM & EMM386 drivers have been improved thanks to mr Michael Devore and other contributors.Please have a look at the readme file for detailed disk layout and RAM usage information.
This is a prerelease because it provides only the Base diskset and the corresponding sources for it.
If the FreeDOS 1.0 ToDo list is empty enough, maybe the next release will be FreeDOS beta9, just before a FreeDOS 1.0 distribution.Beta 9 can be obtained from Ibiblio.
With kind regards,
Bernd Blaauw
Updates to BASE include:
- Kernel 2033 [was 2032a]
- Sys 3.1, uses a /K option for selectable kernel filename [was 2.9]
- Format 0.91o, with stable FAT32 formatting.
- UDMA 6.8, for accelerated disk reads and writes (PIO -> UDMA)
Other disksets have not been included due to lack of time and diskspace (and especially download time)
Updates for the ISO only include:
- ISOLINUX/MEMDISK 2.09pre10 [was 2.07]
Updates for the bootdisk and installation include:
- MetaKern bootloader renamed to metakern.sys instead of kernel.sys
- Updated kernel, sys and bootsector to 2033 versions
- Menu has been made a little fancier
- Implemented speedup tricks (CDRcache, Memdisk)
- Keyboard layout selection FINALLY works.
Please see History.txt in the FreeDOS\DOC directory of the cdrom for the complete set of changes.
You can easily integrate this cdrom distribution to your custom cdrom by adding the software and running MAKEISO.BAT in the ISOLINUX\BUILDCD directory.
Mirrors of the Beta9:
Were you looking for the source code?
You may want to visit the FreeDOS developer page at SourceForge to get the source for the kernel, FreeCOM, and Install program. For more source code to FreeDOS, refer to the maintainers list.
Files archive:
Primary download at ibiblio (formerly Sunsite):
Mirrors of the FreeDOS files archive:
- gd.tuwien.ac.at(www)
- gd.tuwien.ac.at(ftp)
- planetmirror.com(www)
- planetmirror.com(ftp)
- powerlink.no(www)
- rediris.es(www)
- rediris.es(ftp)
- wermlandsdata.com(www) (Sweden)
- If you would like to mirror the FreeDOS files archive, please email the webmaster!