Hi Jerome,
> I gave a lot of thought to the issue of “Installed” and “required” free space
> for the batch based FDI in FreeDOS 1.2. With the amount of additional
> overhead and complexity it would require, I decided it was not worth the
> effort at present.
>
> Base size,
> Base + sources size,
> Full size,
> Full+ sources size,
> All package sizes (custom advanced mode)
> All packages + sources sizes,
Start with Base.
> Temp storage requirements to expand largest installing package,
Difficult.
> Temp storage for custom install lists,
> Temp storage for custom autoexec and config file creation,
Shouldn't take much.
> Size needed for copy style backup,
> Size needed for advanced zip backup,
Means what?
> Size needed for MBR backup,
> Size needed for config file backup,
Shouldn't take much.
> Size of packages to be removed and upgraded,
It's just "-", not "+" then. ;-)
> a couple other minor things.
>
> Basically, all of these would all need to be known and/or calculated before
> the installer could say “43.5mb of packages to install” requiring 87.2mb of
> free space.
Of course, uncompressed ZIP length should be calculated during ISO build
at the latest, but not at runtime of the installer.
But what else is a computer for if not crunching numbers?
Robert Riebisch
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