Re: [ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article

[Pierre Schweitzer]

On 08/11/2014 07:14, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> >   Dear Thomas,
>  
> >  > I really would like something readable and
> > writable, like USB stick, as opposed to live CD. 
>  
> >   There's no easy way to do so.
> >  Even if you'd copy contents of the LiveCD to an USB drive, it wouldn't
> >  be writable, the CDFS driver we use is also read-only. 
>  
>  
> >   Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
>  
>  My idea was to build and use the ROSBE on FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux to build the trunk,
> then install to a USB stick formatted FAT32.
>  
>  Question is whether that could boot. 
In theory, it could. In practice, I'm not that sure, you're really
dependent on USB. And I'm not sure it's in a that good shape,
unfortunately...

>   
>  Linux, the BSDs and Haiku can be installed on a USB stick, but I believe MS-Windows
> can't.
>  
>  I thought of buying a cheap refurbished SATA hard disk, maybe 80 or 160 GB, and using
> that to install ReactOS, FreeDOS and possibly something else (OpenBSD?), but ReactOS and
> FreeDOS have the limitation of having to be the first FAT16 or FAT32 partition on the
> disk, has to be drive C:
>  
>  I might set up to boot with Syslinux.
>  
>  Tom
>  
>  
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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.