> Probably best not to vote on this. As there will be people that don't
> understand what I'm trying to do and what the actual consequences and
> benefits are. I will just do it the way I see it in my mind, and you
> guys can check out the results.
> If you do have any interest you can of course contact me on irc or by email.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Andrew Green <
greeniekin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Actually they can't be merged at the moment. They can be in seperate
> > directories on the same cd eg reactos and reactoslive.
> > This is how it was done for the dual boot cd's distributed, at that convention.
> > The reason why is that usetup deletes smss.exe and replaces it with
> > itself, and the livecd requires the original smss.exe
> > also those cd's were 200mb+. Currently loading smss.exe is hardcoded
> > into ntoskrnl.exe. So ntoskrnl.exe needs to be fixed.
> > plus server files like ntoskrnl.exe,ntkrnlmp.exe,hal.exe, etc are
> > identical to the livecd ones except are in the reactos folder instead
> > of the system32 folder.
> >
> > Also the reason I'm asking this is because my google summer of code
> > project is to be able to install from the livecd.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Zachary Gorden
> > <
drakekaizer666@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> We already have the capability to merge the two. But there's nothing
> >> fundamentally broken in having two versions until such time as we can
> >> actually install from the liveCD. Until that happens, I don't see a
> >> convincing argument for merging the two, since the ones outlined above seem
> >> to boil down to "it might confuse people."
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Timo Kreuzer <
timo.kreuzer@web.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Am 30.03.2011 10:42, schrieb Aleksey Bragin:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Disadvantages
> >>>>> -To download an iso to just install will be larger(A compressed
> >>>>> version could counter this. Though it's not ideal)
> >>>>
> >>>> Even additional 10Mb would become 100Mb when regress testing just 10
> >>>> revisions. There are many people (myself included) who don't have high-speed
> >>>> connection all the time too.
> >>>
> >>> Although its a valid point, I understood it as we wanted to switch to a
> >>> 1st stage gui installer(?)
> >>> In that case, we would need all the stuff for a livecd anyway.
> >>> Maybe we should first evaluate how much memory this would really be.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Timo
> >>>
> >>>
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