About deleting unwanted folders from SOURCE.

[Martin H]

I'm just having the following in my SOURCE folder :

I386\

CDROM_IP.5

CDROM_NT.5

CDROMSP4.TST

And then i have deleted the following folders from I386 :

WIN9XMIG\

WIN9XUPG\

WINNTUPG\

LANG\

Now i then just wanted to make sure if this is allright when using HFSLIP ?

I mean, if an update contains updated files for the 'I386\LANG\' folder, then i will not get them, but however, i'm deleting the LANG folder in the first place because i don't care about that folder anyway...

So, if one of you guys would please tell me if it's okay for me to have those folders deleted when using HFSLIP(and when not caring about them), then i would really appreciate it.

I just wanted to be absolutely sure about this...

Thank's in advance.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Delete them afterwards because a couple of fixes actually have files that go into those folders.

I would however keep the "WINNTUPG" folder as that is the one you need for repair installations.

[Martin H]

Thanks for your reply, Kelsenellenelvian

Yeah, i know about the recovery console feature, and although it's a nice feature for many, then i would personally just rather re-image my system partition back to a working state with a recovery disc.

I'm only deleting folders that i know for sure that i'm not going to miss...

I'm using an answer file when running HFSLIP, so that the process is unattended(with a couple of 'PAUSE' and 'SET /P' commands deleted ) and at the end an ISO is made, so that's why i would much preffer to not delete the folders afterwards(and if i'm deleting them afterwards anyway, then shouldn't it then not be okay to do it beforehand also ?)

[Kelsenellenelvian]

of course deleting them first is ok you'll just end up with a couple megs less space.

[Tomcat76]

If hotfixes came with subfolders they are only copied over into the SOURCESS folder if they already existed. At least, that's the case with HFSLIP for 32-bit OS's. HFSLIP64 would recreate non-existing subfolders in SOURCESS and copy over the new binaries in such case.

[Martin H]

Thank's again Kelsenellenelvian

Hi Tomcat76

Many thanks for your reply and yes, i could see from the code that subfolders are checked for existence in SOURCESS and isn't re-created if missing, but just wanted to know if you guys thought that it was allright to do so, or if you thought that it would be a bad idea or something, but of course it depends on myself and if i'm going to miss those missed binaries or not...

Anyway, since i'm sure that i will not miss them, then i will just keep on using a SOURCE folder without those unneeded folders...

Thank's again, mates

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I'll be damned hfslip is smarter than I thought

Bravo Good Job!