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Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD (Users)

posted by Laaca Homepage, Czech republic, 29.04.2021, 13:44

Yesterday I tried to use the FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD. Because I found a Dell Latitude610 notebook. And I am really dispappointed because it is something really awful. The live system is unusable, the boot process ends in the minimal configuration unable to do anything useful. No file manager is prepared and the user has no usable help. The user even has no information which disc drives are in the system.
Why the hell after so many years of FreeDOS development is it so terrible? Look for example at the Hiren Boot CD. It is the way how it should look like. THe boot ends in menu which allows to select many utilities and more sophisticated programs - everything sorted in categories and subcategories.
Or you can exit this menu system into Volkov commander or into clean DOS prompt.
OK, thought I and started to perform a full featured installation into hard disk.
Ugly FDisk (although we have a more user friendly partition tools) and then the installations. Everything takes a lot of time (installation and the Live boot).
And again. After the boot virtualy unusable system. No file manager, no infi about installed drives. No utility for getting some system information. To get some such info I had to run the text editor Blocek which is surprisingly in the basic installation and to look into its "system information" window. Why there is not bundled any sysinfo utility?
Why after the instalation for CD is only minimum applications available and for the rest I have to do i manual installations?
Nevertheless - the packages are very carelessly sorted. The "utility" subdirectory is then sorted not at all.
Many of usefull programs and utilities are missing and many of senseless programs are included. Who needs a B64 encrypter in the basic installation?
I am so disgusted that I can't continue with this text. Everything was wrong.




And I have to say that although I am using DOS for 27 years this

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