I set up a bootable image of Freedos 1.3 on a zip 750mb disk! I did so by copying the FDOS directory without copying the packages directory.
Interestingly, I have fdnpkg.exe on the zip disk. Of course fdnpkg.exe checkupdates doesn't work right if there is no packages directory. It would be nice to be able to identify installed programs that were not installed by package and install the package over them. If there's no package for a program that is installed, it would be nice to be able to identify it for removal. This is sort of the reverse of package management. Tell me what's on the system that was not put there by package management, find out if there's a package for it, install the package over it, and flag anything that's left in any directory except perhaps for stuff under directory foo. In my case foo is a directory called XP_PIECES. A poor name choice as there is stuff for Windows 98 and Freedos as well in there. This reverse package management doesn't really really exist in Linux either :-( For anyone who has installed a program to Linux using a tarball instead of an rpm or deb (not Slackware ;-)), you understand what I"m talking about. -- Michael C. Robinson
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