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Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD (Users)

posted by mceric, Germany, 30.04.2021, 19:00

> Yeah, it needs some more recent CD driver like GCDROM.SYS and AHCICD.SYS
> http://rayer.g6.cz/download/download.htm#SATACD
> Why is not included?
If you have looked at http://www.z80.eu/freedoscd.html

Note that this website is about FreeDOS 1.0 and not 1.3 ;-)

The current version includes UDVD2 which is quite recent,
but I still think it should also include ELTORITO as extra
driver to be used during the install itself, because that
would work on most systems with the help of the BIOS. The
UDVD2 driver is non-AHCI, but most SATA controllers can
be switched to non-AHCI mode in BIOS setup unless they
are very new.

What is the license of the AHCICD driver? Your download
says it is SHAREWARE by Rudolph Loew, but you have removed
the actual license text file. It is nice that sources and
a patch from Japheth are included, but if Rudolph changed
the license to something free, add a small text file about
that to the download.

Also, the download includes some encoded text file which
puzzles me. Adding headers and using uudecode, a binary
starting with "0GBZ" comes out, which seems to be packed
with something, but I do not know that magic or unpacker.

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