Should we add a backup utility to the UTILS package?Like Microsoft's BACKUP command?So if the user wanted to backup everything (A command line option could be invoked to backup packages).I am not sure if we already have one,it has been a while since I ran a full installation on FreeDOS.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > > On Nov 12, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Jayden, > > > > as far as I am concerned, the installer should NOT backup > > the entire drive - only the DOS directory which would get > > overwritten, plus any (config, kernel) files in the root > > directory that gets overwritten plus maybe the boot sector. > > Agreed. (boot sector is not backed up at present, would need a utility) > > > > > As far as installing and updating individual packages is > > concerned, that task can be left to FDNPKG which does it > > in a sophisticated way. > > One reason I updated the installer to use FDINST instead of > just unzipping the packages. > > > > > Actually I could even appreciate an option where things > > already known to be from properly packaged packages can > > be omitted in the backup, to have a small backup which > > only contains things manually added to DOS by the user: > > Not a bad idea. Might even implement it at some point down the road. > > > > > Replacing CHKDSK version 23 by version 42 is no loss as > > far as I am concerned, so FDNPKG can just go ahead here. > > Yep, unless CHKDSK 42 breaks compatibility with John Doe’s custom > startup autoexec.bat file. In fact, unless they noticed it was updated, > probably wouldn’t care. > > > > > Cheers, Eric > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-devel mailing list > > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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