Re: install-freedos-master works

Unfortunately it is not so easy to combine everything inside one 
repository. This was considered, but there is a strong incentive to keep 
these things separate.

Many software distributions are facing a dilemma on which software to 
offer to users and which software had best be avoided. Part of this is 
related to whether software provides recipients with all four freedoms 
or whether they might restrictions in unexpected moments in case they 
want to use the software for specific purposes (commercial) or have a 
requirement to modify/distribute it. There are thus reasons for some to 
avoid distributing or recommending software that doesn't guarantee there 
won't be restrictions, instead seeking to provide only software for 
which full freedom is guaranteed.

Therefore care was taken to avoid combining these scripts with DOSEMU2 
itself. At this point DOSEMU2 itself and some software that runs in it, 
can be handled without restrictions. The software that this script 
installs cannot be easily modified as some of the tooling required to 
compile it has restrictions. Future developments, either in removing 
restrictions from the tooling used or by replacing this tooling may 
allow these tools to live more closely together again.

Op 11-04-2021 om 13:47 schreef Jude DaShiell:
> after a sudo make install and deleting a few old directories, I ran 
> dosemu -t and then ran insfdusr.  I was told that no user space existed 
> so exited out of dosemu and went into the 
> ~/builds/install-freedos-master/src directory and ran 
> freedos-installuserspace.
> The downloads from the ibiblio archive happened and were successful.
> Next dosemu -t and I find 6 directories on c: tmp was the only directory 
> earlier and I got a bin directory and doc and help and they're populated 
> with files.
> install-freedos-master ought to go into dosemu with documentation so 
> things aren't so biforcated in the future.
>