Whats Wrong Here

Hello there. I am working on a bootdisk for recovering files.

here is the harddisk copyier code

print("What side do you want to copy to?")
side = io.read()
path = disk.getMountPath(side)
if path then
print("Copying")
for i, v in pairs(fs.list("/")) do
fs.copy("/"..v,path.."/"..v)
end
print("Done")
fs.delete(path.."/".."startup")
fs.delete(path.."/".."rom")
read()
disk.eject(side)
os.reboot()
else
print("Not a valid disk")
end

it works all well except for the fs.delete(path.."/".."rom")
the rom folder gets copied to the disk
Is there anyway i can fix that?

Thanks

Mandrake25, on 21 February 2012 - 01:48 AM said:

Hello there. I am working on a bootdisk for recovering files.

here is the harddisk copyier code

print("What side do you want to copy to?")
side = io.read()
path = disk.getMountPath(side)
if path then
print("Copying")
for i, v in pairs(fs.list("/")) do
fs.copy("/"..v,path.."/"..v)
end
print("Done")
fs.delete(path.."/".."startup")
fs.delete(path.."/".."rom")
read()
disk.eject(side)
os.reboot()
else
print("Not a valid disk")
end

it works all well except for the fs.delete(path.."/".."rom")
the rom folder gets copied to the disk
Is there anyway i can fix that?

Thanks

Simply check for rom/ during copying:

for i, v in pairs(fs.list("/")) do
 if v ~= "rom" and v:sub(1, 4) ~= "rom/" then 
  fs.copy("/"..v,path.."/"..v)
 end
end

Something like that should work.
If you can't delete disk/rom, then that's a bug! I'll test it and report for you.

Edit: I'm able to delete disk/rom on 1.3; not sure about 1.21.

Thanks dude! I am on 1.21

When i try to use the harddisk copyier to copy the hdd to a floppy i get this

Well then, add another check to see if you're trying to copy disk/ into disk/!

I tried

elseif input == "2" then
print("What side do you want to copy to?")
side = io.read()
path = disk.getMountPath(side)
if path then
print("Copying")
for i, v in pairs(fs.list("/")) do -- Patched by Advert
if v ~= "rom" and ~= "disk" and ~= "startup" and v:sub(1, 4) ~= "rom/" and ~= "disk/" ans ~= "startup" then
fs.copy("/"..v,path.."/"..v)
end
end
print("Done")
read()
disk.eject(side)
os.reboot()
else
print("Not a valid disk")
end

I am not the best at Lua

Mandrake25, on 21 February 2012 - 07:18 PM said:

I tried

elseif input == "2" then
print("What side do you want to copy to?")
side = io.read()
path = disk.getMountPath(side)
if path then
print("Copying")
for i, v in pairs(fs.list("/")) do -- Patched by Advert
if v ~= "rom" and ~= "disk" and ~= "startup" and v:sub(1, 4) ~= "rom/" and ~= "disk/" ans ~= "startup" then
fs.copy("/"..v,path.."/"..v)
end
end
print("Done")
read()
disk.eject(side)
os.reboot()
else
print("Not a valid disk")
end

I am not the best at Lua

You need to specify both sides to your ~= checks:

if v ~= "rom" and v ~= "disk" and v ~= "startup" and v:sub(1, 4) ~= "rom/" and v:sub(1, 4) ~= "disk/" and v:sub(1, 4) ~= "startup" then

Thank You! I got my whole recovery kernel done now