Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Jonathon Keogh schreef:
- ....
- Ask questions about drives
- Ask question about location of ReactOS
- Ask question about booting
- Apply drive stuff
- Apply ReactOS location (and copy files)
- Apply booting stuff
- Reboot PC
You mean answer all questions as soon as possible, then be done with it until ReactOS has installed?
Yes, I did :)
- Start caching installation files in RAM (as long as CD is the only
install medium supported, otherwise [2] first ) 2) Textmode mass storage drivers for potential destination locations (and for source installation medium?) 3) Partitioning 4) Install destination location (disk + location) 5) Boot manager questions 6) Other stuff (VGA, keyboard, language, country etc) 7) Copy files (should be fast when they reside in RAM already) 8) Boot manager stuff (if [7] doesn't hang on systems with 32MB or less, bug 703 I think) 8A: disk only (MBR) 8B: diskette only 8C: both A and B (functions as a ROS startup bootdisk, and you can't create a FreeLDR diskette from an install ReactOS AFAIK) 8D: something with writing bootsector to a file only. 9) Reboot
This is just an idea, remember.
Mine also. Idea is to start as early possible with reading the contents of a medium that's as slow as a cdrom. If 32MB is a nice bottom platform for installation ( 0.2x series did also install and boot with 20 or 24MB RAM), then anything above it can act as file copy cache. . _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev