Releases/Beta9

The FreeDOS Beta 9 distribution was released on 28 September 2004.

Codename

Unlike previous iterations in the FreeDOS Beta distributions, this version did not have a codename. The FreeDOS Beta 9 RC1 (release candidate 1) was the last distribution to use a codename.

History

This Wayback snapshot shows a news item dated "2004-09-29 05:43" that says "Bernd Blaauw has posted the FreeDOS Beta9 (Final)."

That news item was pulled from the Sourceforge news servers (we used their news posting service) and I'm pretty sure that their servers were GMT. I would have written that in US/Central, 6 hours ahead, so just shy of midnight on 28 Sep 2004. Assume 28 Sept is more correct, since that date shows up elsewhere on the Internet.

Release candidates

• FreeDOS Beta 9 RC1
• FreeDOS Beta 9 RC2
• FreeDOS Beta 9 RC3
• FreeDOS Beta 9 RC4
• FreeDOS Beta 9 RC5

Service releases

• FreeDOS Beta 9 SR1
• FreeDOS Beta 9 SR2

Release notes

FreeDOS beta9-final (2004-09-28)

Readme file

Table of Contents:
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I)    How to view this document
II)   What to get, platform dependant
III)  How to boot up
IV)   Installation
V)    Post-installation disk/RAM layout and configuration files
VI)   Using FreeDOS
VII)  Updates and help

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I      - How to view this document

This document is posted online and thus may incidentally not comply with the
DOS specification of keeping line width below 80 characters. We recommend
using a HTML viewer or the FreeDOS program PG, which supports line wrapping,
found at www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/pg/

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II     - What to get, platform dependant

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