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
>
>
>
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