[arachne] Re: Pocket Arachne 1.85 testing

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Message resent 16th August 2005

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:52:20 -0600, Scott Warnick wrote:
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> If I'm not the only person in the world using FAT32 drives and a cable
> modem connection, the Pocket Arachne team has a couple of
> issues to address, i.e. FAT32 drives and potentional RAM cram. The
> solution isn't obvious, though. When I was experimenting I found
> out that OpenDOS has by far the smallest kernel/command.com combination.
> I'm sure that's why you chose it.  (Kernel size matters a whole lot when
> you are working with a 1.44 MB floppy and your ramdisk image takes up
> 1.2 MB.) How would you feel about a two-diskette distribution of PA185 for
> users who have FAT32 drives or who just want to run under a different
> OS? I can create it and upload it if you will point me to a good
> ramdisk image creation tool.

How about creating a CD instead of running 2 floppies?
Booting (reading) a floppy is a slow proces and reading 2 floppies is
very slow. Besides: modern computers don't even have a drive for a flop.

At least 2 items should be on that self booting CD:
#1 DOS operating system (FreeDOS?)
#2 Arachne
#3 Many other DOS programs are possible

We have a problem though... Pocket Arachne writes to the disk, eg the
configuration files. That is not possible on a CD.

Regards, Bastiaan

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