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

[Thomas Mueller]

>   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.

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