> On Nov 12, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Eric Auer <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
