The 1.44MB disksets are available inįull\disksets and the 360KB disksets are available in full\disksets. Provided along with several of the disksets split up so they mayįit on 360KB or larger disks. Those without a 1.44MB floppy drive the other disk images are Image and disksets are the suggested ones to use, however to assist
#Drive snapshot 1.44 install#
* The FULL distribution is provided with 3.5inch 1.44MB & 720KBįloppy images and 5.25inch 1.2MB & 360KB floppy images. Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall To install Drive Snapshot, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell: To. * The MINI distribution is only provided with a boot disk image forģ.5inch 1.44MB floppy and disksets that will fit on 1.44MB disks. (so for now, /U /Q is implied even if not specified). Remember it still does not do bad sector checking Format no longer requires rebootingĪfter formating. * The version of format included requires FreeDOS kernel 2024f or However, if you don't have ANY floppy in the driveĪt the time, you get a very odd error message from the kernel. If you have the Install Bootįloppy in the drive, the install program will correctly ask for Of the first install set before it tries to do anything. * The install program really should ask you to insert the first disk Programs from the Install Boot Floppy is slow. Installation will take longer than you may expect, and running * Floppy access under the FreeDOS kernel is still a little slow. In the meantime, some things you need to watch out for: Updated versions of the the semi-official "Hot" releases may be found atĬhanges from Beta7 are noted in changes.txt Problems/updates with the official Beta7 may be found on the FreeDOS web
Release Notes THE FREEDOS BETA 7 ("SPEARS") DISTRIBUTION Fixes: It might show wrong status of logical drive on display when there it. This Wayback snapshot has a note that "9/8/01 FreeDOS Beta 7 ("SPEARS") Distribution is now available on ibiblio." So is more correct. Volume cannot be rolled back by snapshot when using cloud-connected folder. So we probably had that on our minds when we picked the codename." Her self-titled album Britney would be released November 2001, and in September 2001 we would have heard a ton of her music on the radio to advertise the new album. I think this had something to do with Britney Spears. From Jim: "Jeremy was release coordinator at the time, so he would have given this Beta a codename. We aren't exactly sure of the origin of this codename. The FreeDOS Beta 7 "Spears" distribution was released 8 September 2001.