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[Lodovik]

Hello and congratulations for such a great project!

I have a problem. I've built an ISO which is booting fine into ram, no apparent problems. I just wanted to add some antivirus applications I use in DOS (McAffee and Fprot). I know they're working on NTFS so I thought I could zip them and put the archive in the ISO. All went well, I also put Pkunzip and some other utilities that were tested in XP before. But, when I try to run something as simple as pkunzip, the command-line freezes and I get no response. Same thing for many other tools I used to run in XP as command-line utilities. Is there some DLLs I should add to the build that will enable 16-bit programs?

Thanks!

[xpdoctor]

That means that we need one more script supporting 16bit apps. We can create it based on barts plug in for pe builder. I'll try to make it.

[xpdoctor]

Well thats a start. This script does exactly wat dospe.inf do. I hope that nuno wil help us to make it smaller by removing some mci or sound references. I haven't tested yet, so post any problem you find.

Get the latest version of dospe.script here : dospe.script

[Yorn]

Also, if you wanted you could use 7zip instead of just regular zip and repackage your base file:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Then you could use HXDOS in your DOS to unpack it:
http://www.japheth.de/HX.html

[Lodovik]

I wasn't aware that support for 16-bit needed that much files. But it will do nicely for me as my maximum ISO build size is around 100 MB so the build will run into RAM on a 256 MB computer with a 64 MB ramdrive. I will also take a look at Yorn suggestions as replacement for pkunzip. My current solution to the problem was self-extract WinRARs. Scan was OK but Fprot need 16-bit support anyways.

Thanks for the help!

[smiley]

I haven't tested it so if you find any bug please report it .

(I have changed my nic from xpdoctor to smiley)

[Lodovik]

The 16-bit support is working like a charm! I had some errors while processing the script though:

FileCopy - Failed to copy [G:\XP_SP2\I386\_DEFAULT.PIF] to: [G:\ISO\Openbuilder\Target\i386]

FileCopy - Failed to copy [G:\XP_SP2\I386\SYSTEM.INI] to: [G:\ISO\Openbuilder\Target\i386]

FileCopy - Failed to copy [G:\XP_SP2\I386\WIN.INI] to: [G:\ISO\Openbuilder\Target\i386]

Expand - Failed to CAB expand file: [G:\XP_SP2\i386\mapi.dl_] Dir:[G:\ISO\Openbuilder\Target\i386\system32]

Expand - Failed to CAB expand file: [G:\XP_SP2\i386\rasapi16.dl_] Dir:[G:\ISO\Openbuilder\Target\i386\system32]

Expand - Failed to CAB expand file: [G:\XP_SP2\i386\wowfax.dl_] Dir:[G:\ISO\Openbuilder\Target\i386\system32]

Expand - Failed to CAB expand file: [G:\XP_SP2\i386\wowfaxui.dl_] Dir:[G:\ISO\Openbuilder\Target\i386\system32]

But no errors after booting the ISO. Maybe these are due to the fact that I use XP SP2 as a source. But, looking at the names of the files, I don't think it will cause any problems...

Tanks again, Smiley

[jaymcjay]

Can you attach the script to add 16-bit support? It'd be pretty useful for testing purposes. Thanks!

[Lodovik]

Here it is...

Attached Files

•  16_bit_support.script   8.04KB   348 downloads

[smiley]

Fixed the errors that occured. I have changed many things that were wrong in the script.

If any other error occures, please report

Thank to all for your help...

I'll post also in The developement section. Please report there.

Get the latest version of dospe.script here : dospe.script

[Nuno Brito]

Thanks for adding 16bit support, I'll surely add it on the next release!

[Yorn]

It'd be interesting to see how much this support increases the size of the build, too. But what's great is if someone doesn't need it, they just turn it off. Pretty cool if you ask me.

[Nuno Brito]

I've already tested it and adds around 3~4Mb..


Not sure if these values can't be optimized.. (UPX, makecab, removing obsolete files)