[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release

[Murali Krishnan Ganapathy]

Done. Added the lines. Thought I did not remove it.

- Murali

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
>
>>
>> I dont know if adding that feature (making memdisk force BIOS to 
>> choose the last possible drive letter), would help in any situation 
>> except the situation I described. Right now, having a 10MB floppy 
>> image is more than enough for me.
>>
>> BTW, Thanks to the new MEMDISK interrupt, I have one DOS image which 
>> does a whole lot of things depending on the arguments it gets. I have 
>> implemented an an rc.d style autoexec.bat and that makes things 
>> really useful. The key is a program which parses the boot time 
>> arguments and sets appropriate environment variables (a simple 
>> modification of the sample program which comes with syslinux). This 
>> is also available for download 
>> (http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gmurali/gui), in case anyone is 
>> interested.
>>
>> This feature has reduced the number of DOS images in my CD and hence 
>> maintaining them is a lot easier.
>>
>
> Hi Murali,
>
> I think it would be a good idea to preserve the comment I put in into 
> mdiskchk.c:
>
>  * This program can be compiled for DOS with the OpenWatcom compiler
>  * (http://www.openwatcom.org/):
>  *
>  * wcl -3 -osx -mt mdiskchk.c
>
> ... it's not exactly obvious what compiler to use and how to use it, 
> and saving people that trouble would certainly be a good idea.
>
>     -hpa
>
>