What about the user's other data?Such as documents,extra programs,etc.?Are we going to assume they already backed it up?
On Thu, 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. > > As far as installing and updating individual packages is > concerned, that task can be left to FDNPKG which does it > in a sophisticated way. > > 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: > > Replacing CHKDSK version 23 by version 42 is no loss as > far as I am concerned, so FDNPKG can just go ahead here. > > Cheers, Eric > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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