Re: [sls@datamart.com: Base14-10.bin is broken?]

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

>Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
>
>> Urgh.  What about just finding a rawrite that understand vfat and
>> going with vfat in all cases rather than msdos disks ?
>
>I thought about that for a brief moment, but first of all, it's not an
>easy task, and second of all, it ties us to Win95/98, and locks out
>people with FreeDOS[*], OS/2, DR-DOS or even just older flavors of
>MS-DOS/MSWin.  None of which support vfat, afaik.  It may even fail
>with NT3.x, though I'm not entirely sure about that.
>
>[*] it could be argued that FreeDOS is really the only one we should
>actively support -- not that I'm making such an argument, but some
>might.   I'd certainly oppose any plans to *drop* support for FreeDOS,
>though.

Excellent point.

I think we should adopt the new subarch/disk-size directory structure
to work around problems:

   disk-1.20/driver##.bin
            /rescue##.bin
            /base-##.bin

   disk-1.44/driver##.bin
            /rescue##.bin
            /base-##.bin

Thoughts?


.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>