downloaddos script

downloaddos script

[Jude DaShiell]

the script which is part of install-freedos-master package may have worked 
but in order to do that, it would have needed at least one alternate 
download site from which to retrieve its files.  Does any such site exist 
in better shape than the ibiblio site?  I haven't got familiar with the 
code in the script yet and could do a couple things to fix this.  One 
would be to replace the ibiblio site with another and the other 
possibility would be to have an alternate site downloaded from when the 
ibiblio site didn't have a file and in that way get as much stuff from 
each site through the download process.

Re: downloaddos script

[Tomas By]

On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:01:26 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> the script which is part of install-freedos-master package may have
> worked but in order to do that, it would have needed at least one
> alternate download site from which to retrieve its files.  Does any
> such site exist in better shape than the ibiblio site?


freedos.org ?

/Tomas

Re: downloaddos script

[Jude DaShiell]

Thanks, I'll check that out and see what it has.  After that, I'm going 
into the code of the script and see what I can do.  Python isn't one of my 
main languages but I can handle bash scripts.



On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, Tomas By wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:01:26 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> the script which is part of install-freedos-master package may have
>> worked but in order to do that, it would have needed at least one
>> alternate download site from which to retrieve its files.  Does any
>> such site exist in better shape than the ibiblio site?
>
>
> freedos.org ?
>
> /Tomas
>

Re: downloaddos script

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

Hi Jude,

Thanks a lot for reporting the issues with the script. I checked with 
the FreeDOS project what had happened and that package had been renamed.

If you update to the latest version of the script, everything will work 
correctly. Missing files are simply skipped from now on and the renamed 
package has been incorporated too.

Be sure to let it know if you run into more issues!

Best regards,
Julius

Op 09-04-2021 om 17:01 schreef Jude DaShiell:
> the script which is part of install-freedos-master package may have 
> worked but in order to do that, it would have needed at least one 
> alternate download site from which to retrieve its files.  Does any such 
> site exist in better shape than the ibiblio site?  I haven't got 
> familiar with the code in the script yet and could do a couple things to 
> fix this.  One would be to replace the ibiblio site with another and the 
> other possibility would be to have an alternate site downloaded from 
> when the ibiblio site didn't have a file and in that way get as much 
> stuff from each site through the download process.
>