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Hi Shakna, if you'd boot FreeDOS and Windows 3.1 directly, perhaps it would even be 4 seconds as you skip Linux booting and the DosBox latency.
by fsiefken 10y ago
Hi Shakna, if you'd boot FreeDOS and Windows 3.1 directly, perhaps it would even be 4 seconds as you skip Linux booting and the DosBox latency.
- shakna 10y agoI've been watching FreeDOS for this for a little while. Unfortunately getting the particular program to install requires a little fudging as it tries to detect Win, and underlying DOS, and wants particular numbers to be present in the versions.
- fsiefken 10y agoperhaps VERSION could fix this -http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/version.htm http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/version.htm
- shakna 10y agoThat is very interesting, I might try it out to see if it works.
- shakna 10y agoBugger. The program tries to verify the integrity of MSDOS.SYS and VER.EXE with some sort of weak hash, as well as get the result of VER. FreeDOS's VERSION gets me halfway though, now just to generate some dummy files when I work out the right hashing algo to use...
- fsiefken 10y agoThanks for the update! What about just copying those files over from MS-DOS?
- shakna 10y agoUnfortunately that's not working right now... Guessing it does something else hacky to check that it truly is running on MSDOS and Win 3.1. But it is on my list to investigate when I'm back to work.