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- "The commandline is dead, long live the commandline!"
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- FreeDOS beta 9 ("Methusalem") distribution
- 2004-02-03
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- prepared and distributed by Jeremy Davis.
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- FreeDOS is a trademark of Jim Hall
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- INTRODUCTION:
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- This is the feature-list for the fd beta9 cdrom release
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- Featurelist:
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- *(CD/DVD)ROM
- +can be burned on 650MB cd or higher capacity
- +can be easily integrated on distribution cdroms,
- like magazines which want to promote FreeDOS.
- +bootable on modern computers if computer supports it
- (Intel P166 or compatible, or newer computers)
- +can be used on all computers with a cdrom-drive.
- 720KB, 1220KB and 1440KB diskette-images are available.
- +easily recreated in case you want to update the cdrom.
- +bootdisk builder allows you to create freely distributable
- general-purpose (troubleshooting/installation) bootdisk,
- something that is quite difficult in NT family OS's
- (even XP, given the limits of the WinME kernel used on bootdisk)
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- *FreeDOS beta 9 distribution
- +updated lots of programs to latest version
- +installs a default config.sys and autoexec.bat configuration files.
- +does not overwrite any MSDOS (tm) or Windows(tm) files.
- +multiboot capabilities with MSDOS 5.0 - 6.22 and Windows 95 - ME
- using MetaKern bootloader.
- +supports installation on FAT16 partitions beyond 8GB (large disks),
- for example create a 100MB Freedos partition at end of 60GB harddisk.
- +multimenu automatically created as demonstration for bootup options
- +includes several language files to aid installation and use.
- +DOS kernel supports FAT32 and allows you to install Windows
- +includes UDMA driver for harddisk read and write acceleration.
- +FORMAT program includes optimised settings for later-on NTFS
- conversion.