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Jim uploaded to ibiblio my release originating in 2021 February. More information about this application is available on my website and linked from there.

From the recent freedos-devel mailing list discussion I found this report and noticed that it doesn't include lDebug yet. It would probably fit the devel category best. (It is an advanced fork of FreeDOS Debug.)

Reproduce steps below

Pick installer language=Russian

Pick "Continue installation"

Pick layout=Russian

======== Bug1: The next screen looks like this, just an empty rectangle. I pressed Enter here

Now finish the installation and reboot.

======== Bug2: Notice the garbage instead of localized text in Russian.

======== Bug3: Keyboard layout is messed. For example "m" is mapped into comma (I tried all keys to find "m" to no avail btw). It is because of mkeyb FR (!) in fdauto.bat. I commented it out and the layout was back to latin after reboot.

After all, I've made such changes to fdauto.bat

@@ -27,12 +27,13 @@
 IF NOT EXIST %DOSDIR%\CPI\EGA3.CPX GOTO NoCodePage
 LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1)
 MODE CON CP PREP=((866) %DOSDIR%\CPI\EGA3.CPX)
-LH MODE CON CP SEL=866
+MODE CON CP SEL=866
+MODE CON CP REFRESH
 REM LH KEYB RU,,keybrd3.sys
 REM LH CHCP 866
 :NoCodePage
 
-mkeyb FR
+rem mkeyb FR
 
 REM MOUSE
 CTMOUSE

After reboot the localization works correctly like this.

On 1.3-RC3, when the user selects the French language, the first screen is weird: the text is all over the place, the OS name is missing, and some letters are missing as well. See the screenshot below.

Additionally, when the installation is completed, the welcome to the system message has a "Parameter error". See below, at the top of the screenshot:

Is this something to be fixed by the translator or the coder?

"However, the entire process can be ported without to much difficulty ..."

should be

"can be ported without too much difficulty ..."

When scrolling through the "What is your preferred language?" list I noticed the Dutch option is buggy

Scroll to Esperanto:

Now scroll one step down (should be Dutch) and notice it says Esperanto again.

It is because of line 18 in FREEDOS/SETUP/NL/FDSETUP.DEF on the install media. Notice below Esperanto comes after Dutch. While in all other FREEDOS/SETUP/*/FDSETUP.DEF files their positions are swapped.

LANG_LIST=/r4/c32 'Engels' /e/p/r4/c32 'Spaans' /e/p/r4/c32 'Frans' /e/p/r4/c32 'Duits' /e/p/r4/c32 'Nederlands' /e/p/r4/c32 'Esperanto' /e/p/r4/c32 'Turks' /e/p/r4/c32 'Russisch' /e

I tried swapping the things on the istall media and it fixed the problem.

Also in FREEDOS/SETUP/NL/FDSETUP.DEF the following lines have Esperanto and Dutch swapped (compared to all other language defs). In case LANG_LIST above is automaticly generated from these lines it might be the problem's source.

LANG_EN=Engels
LANG_ES=Spaans
LANG_FR=Frans
LANG_DE=Duits
LANG_NL=Nederlands  <===== these lines should
LANG_EO=Esperanto  <===== be swapped
LANG_TR=Turks
LANG_RU=Russisch

Here i was published russian keymaps - http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/174/
Please, update list of keymaps (needed to update russian, add russian dos and russian typewriter)

This is rather a feature request: it would be nice if the user had the possibility to select his or her language after typing SETUP.BAT in the live environment mode as with the direct installation option from the startup menu.

Again, a feature request from the user's perspective: when using 1.3-RC3 in Live mode with VirtualBox, Internet is automatically configured and simply launching say Links allows the user to browse websites. But after installing FreeDOS and booting from the hard disk, the same Links, or Lynx, return a "NO PACKET DRIVER FOUND." message.

Sure, one could go struggle with the documentation, edit config files and so on, but wouldn't it be better to provide direct Internet connection as with the live mode?

Also, a question: in Live mode, would it be possible to put FDNPKG's config file somewhere in R: and adjust the %FDNPKG.CFG% environment variable accordingly so that we can avoid the "No repository is configured. You need at least one" message when trying to "install" a package from a repo?

I actually filed this bug here https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/OS/FDI/-/issues/10 but come to think of it, should I have filed it here on Github instead? All relevant info is there on Gitlab. There is a comment about certain assembly instructions maybe not being available on all cpus as well.

Is it possible to translate the first boot "Welcome to FreeDOS operating system blah blah" message in welcome.bat? It would be a welcome improvement, since it's the first "message" that greets the user.

As far as I know, the FreeDos code is dealt with on sourceforge's svn. But it appears that now this repo is mentioned on the freedos website. If I notice a bug in Freedos, may I report it here?

Cheers

On web page: "Creating a FDI based FreeDOS installer shidel edited this page on May 24, 2017"
Both the 512mb and the 32mb images links goes to: "There are no downloads available for "FDI-USB.zip" at this time." and There are no downloads available for "FDI-SLIM.zip" at this time.."
The YouTube video https://youtu.be/rKAq7HEQ1oE is out of date.

I create russian translation for FDI. I already made translate for KEYBOARD.LST and SETLANG.BAT. Soon i will complete translation for FDSETUP.DEF and publish files here.

Hello. I would like to use Hyper-V with FreeDos as I cannot have both VirtualBox and Hyper-V enabled at the same time. Alternatively I am looking for any other safe to use emulators that won't mess too heavily with my setup.

Thank you.