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- THE FREEDOS BETA 8 ("Nikita") DISTRIBUTION
-
- RELEASE NOTES
-
- Jeremy Davis <jeremyd@computer.org>
- 07 April 2002
-
- This document based on prior Release Notes
- written by Jim Hall
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-
- Welcome to the Beta8 distribution!
-
- Please visit the FreeDOS web site ( http://www.freedos.org ) for more
- information on FreeDOS, including updates or possible problems with
- the Beta 8 distribution. Please read the errata.
-
- Please read and understand the licensing information for all programs
- you install and use.
-
- For a list of programs available in this distribution see the file
- programs.txt, which includes information such as program name, license
- (copying information, note some programs may be available only for
- non-commercial use), and primary location to obtain program.
-
-
- In the meantime, some notes and things you need to watch out for:
-
- * You should generally use the latest kernel with included programs;
- format 0.85 requires at least kernel build 2024f and emm386 0.4
- requires at least kernel build 2026. Other programs may have
- similar requirements.
-
- * Format now includes bad sector checking. It does not yet support
- FAT32 partitions.
-
- * The MINI and FULL distribution now use the same boot disk image.
- The choice of Mini or Full is presented at boot time. MINI consists
- of just the BASE install set and boot disk; whereas FULL includes
- the BASE install set, boot disk, and optionally the remaining install
- sets (EDIT, GUI, LANG, UTIL, and the source sets). Other than
- the BASE set (which is required), you only need to download those
- sets you wish to install.
-
- * The Fat32 enabled kernel, while may be available, should be
- considered experimental. The included utilities may not support
- Fat32 and may exhibit other anomalies when using it. It may
- also be compiled using 80386 specific instructions so only use
- on 386 or higher based computers.
-
- * This distribution is provided in a form suitable for 3.5inch
- 1.44MB floppies, and defaults to using the standard (Fat12/Fat16
- only) kernel.
-
- * Other floppy formats {3.5inch 720KB, and 5.25inch 1.2MB & 360KB}
- may also be provided [install disk images for each type, and install
- sets divided into sizes to allow the extracted files to fit].
-
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- FreeDOS is a trademark of Jim Hall.
- It was claimed as a trademark to prevent its possible abuse or misuse.
- The name FreeDOS may be used by the FreeDOS community to refer to
- programs that are part of the FreeDOS operating system, or to associate
- their programs with FreeDOS.
-