Releases/1.3/RC2
The FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 distribution was released on December 9, 2019.
History
FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 was made available in several formats:
- FD13FLOP.IMG - Basic FreeDOS installation boot floppy image.
- FD13LITE.IMG - Plain DOS system only! USB stick image. (Also VMDK)
- FD13FULL.IMG - Plain DOS system and Full install USB stick image. (Also VMDK)
- FD13LGCY.ISO - Contains all the packages as FD13-FullUSB. However, it is a bootable CD image designed for older hardware.
- FD13LIVE.ISO - FreeDOS LiveCD along with support for a Plain and Full installation. Sets up a minimal FreeDOS environment on the LiveCD so you can use FreeDOS without installing.
Further information about the two LiveCDs are detailed in the Release Notes, below.
Changes
The FreeDOS 1.3 RC1 distribution is based on the package lists documented in Releases/1.3/Packages
The contents of the LiveCD are BASE + FDI requirements + a few useful and simple utilities. Note that we will continue to fine tune packages in the LiveCD if needed for FreeDOS 1.3.
Release notes
The release notes were published in plain text format. Original version is shown below:
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FreeDOS 1.3-RC2 Installation media.
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Some general system requirements.
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A FreeDOS FULL install with sources requires 450 MiB of free HD space.
Without sources, 250 MiB of free space will be needed.
A FreeDOS PLAIN install with sources requires 50 MiB of free HD space.
Without sources, 20 MiB of free space will be needed.
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What's in all those release ZIP files?
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README.TXT
The simple "before you choose and install" document.
(All zip archives contain a copy of this README file.)
verify.txt
Contains MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 hashes for all of the different release
files.
FD13-Floppy.zip
* FD13FLOP.IMG - Basic FreeDOS installation boot floppy image for systems
that support a CD-ROM. But, the system cannot boot from either of CD-ROM
release media.
FD13-LiteUSB.zip
* FD13LITE.IMG - Plain DOS system only! This USB stick image does not
contain all of the packages that are available in a FULL install. It only
contains the basic plain DOS set of packages.
* FD13LITE.VMDK - An Virtual Machine Disk description file to simplify
attaching the LiteUSB image to a virtual machine (like VirtualBox and
vmWare) as a hard drive.
FD13-FullUSB.zip
* FD13FULL.IMG - Plain DOS system and Full install USB stick image.
(Also, includes may extra packages that are not installed in the
"Plain DOS" or even the "Full Install". These extras can be installed
later using FDIMPLES or another package manager)
* FD13FULL.VMDK - An Virtual Machine Disk description file to simplify
attaching the FullUSB image to a virtual machine (like VirtualBox and
vmWare) as a hard drive.
FD13-LegacyCD.zip
* FD13LGCY.ISO - Contains all the packages as FD13-FullUSB. However, it
is a bootable CD image designed for older hardware. It uses the classic
El Torito Boot CD-ROM format. Some modern computers and virtual machines
are known to have issues booting CDs that use this ancient specification.
Unless you have a computer that requires this type of bootable CD, we
recommend using the LiveCD media.
FD13-LiveCD.zip
* FD13LIVE.ISO - This media is similar to the LegacyCD. However instead
of relying on the BIOS floppy disk emulation, it uses SYSLINUX and MEMDISK
to boot an emulated floppy disk. Along side support to perform a Plain and
Full installation FreeDOS, this media is also able to run FreeDOS live from
RAM or CD (depending on computer system and hardware) without installation
to an internal hard disk drive.