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THE FREEDOS BETA 9 ("Methusalem") DISTRIBUTION
RELEASE NOTES
Bernd Blaauw <bblnews@hotmail.com>
03 February 2004
This document based on prior Release Notes
written by Jim Hall and Jeremy Davis
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Welcome to the Beta9 distribution!
Please visit the FreeDOS web site ( http://www.freedos.org ) for more
information on FreeDOS, including updates or possible problems with
the Beta 9 distribution. Please read the errata.
Further information about FreeDOS prerelease distributions may
be found at http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/
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 0.91n requires at least kernel build 2033 and emm386 0.7
requires at least kernel build 2033. Other programs may have
similar requirements.
* Format now includes bad sector checking. Support for FAT32
partitions is almost stable.
* The prerelease versions of the FreeDOS distribution contain only
the BASE install set and it's corresponding SOURCE (directory SRC_BASE)
We provide a bootable cdrom and a 1.44MB bootdisk.
You may create a bootdisk from the cdrom using option 3 in the main
menu, or in Windows using the autorun.inf entry
(FREEDOS\SETUP\BATCH\BOOTDISK.BAT)
an enhanced bootdisk is available from
[ http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc4/fdbeta9.img ]
* The Fat32 enabled kernel has gone out of the experimental phase
for quite some time. It's now stable.
However, not all FreeDOS programs can handle FAT32 properly yet.
* This distribution is provided only as an ISO image. Though
disk images may be provided in a form suitable for 3.5inch
1.44MB floppies and others to allow booting from floppy and
using the CD-ROM. [Please use the Beta 8 distribution or
check for a newer prerelease distribution for floppy use.]
* About bootdisk:
The contents of the first disk is small enough to fit on diskettes
ranging from 360KB to 2.88MB (most common: 1.44KB).
It provides you with a freeware (and almost completely GPL) bootable
diskette that allows you to run the Memory testing program Memtest86,
to install FreeDOS, or to add programs yourself (for example, freedos
allows PartitionMagic to access fat32 and NTFS drives).
* About bootdisk creation:
If an empty diskette is inserted, we create a standard FreeDOS diskette.
However, if you insert a Windows 98 bootdisk, a dualboot is created
on the diskette between the two operating systems.
Because the provided ATAPICDD cdrom-driver is still experimental,
we also support using a few well-known and stable cdrom-drivers which
are contained on this very same win98 bootdisk.
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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.