THE FREEDOS BETA7 ("SPEARS") DISTRIBUTION ERRATA Jim Hall Jeremy Davis Updated Nov 10 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the errata file for the Beta7 distribution. I'll post any problems/updates with the Beta7 in this file. Please read this file before reporting bugs against Beta7, to make sure that you are not reporting a problem that is already known. If you find a bug in the FreeDOS Beta7, please do not email me directly. Instead, please post a bug in the FreeDOS Bugtrack database (please search for your bug first - try to avoid entering a duplicate bug.) See http://www.freedos.org/bugs/ COMMONLY MIS-IDENTIFIED AS BUGS: * Floppy access under the FreeDOS kernel is still a little slow. The installation will take longer than you may expect, and running programs from the Install Boot Floppy is slow. * The GUI disk set only includes SEAL. I didn't have enough time to include the other systems with this disk set. Sorry. * The NET disk set is not included. Rather than inflict a half-baked set into the distribution, I have decided not to include the NET. THINGS THAT ARE BROKEN: * Refer to bugtrack for bugs reports. * The kernel included should be updated before attempting to install to small partition sizes (usually less than 128MB), otherwise install will fail, usually accompanied by directory corruption. PACKAGES TO UPDATE: (get from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/) * Due to an oversight on my part (Jeremy), Joe Cosentino's Start program was not included in the utility diskset. I apologize for this mistake. Ripcord Beta 7 H1 includes an updated utility diskset. Start may be downloaded from http://www.geocities.com/xsaintx69/freedos/ * Fdisk 1.0 RC 2 released 9/21/2001 * Kernel 2025 released 9/26/2001 * Tree 3.7.1 released 10/16/2001 (updated command line parsing only) --------------------------------------------------------------------------