Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 74550: [USETUP]: Continue implementing the NT OS installation detector. What remains to be done here, besides cleaning up the code from temporary comments and DPRINTs (and fixing potenti...

[Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO]

Hehe yeah :D Just that since some people might complain we either break their installs /
do not play "fair" with other companies products / etc... I prefer to play safe
here :)

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De : Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Thomas Faber
Envoyé : mardi 16 mai 2017 09:48
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Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 74550: [USETUP]: Continue implementing the NT
OS installation detector. What remains to be done here, besides cleaning up the code from
temporary comments and DPRINTs (and fixing potenti...

On 2017-05-15 03:59, hbelusca(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
>   Author: hbelusca
>  Date: Mon May 15 01:59:28 2017
>  New Revision: 74550
>
>  URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=74550&view=rev
>  Log:
>  [USETUP]: Continue implementing the NT OS installation detector.
>  What remains to be done here, besides cleaning up the code from temporary comments and
> DPRINTs (and fixing potential bugs), is to actually parse the NTOS loader configuration
> files (freeldr.ini in ROS' case, or boot.ini in Win2k3's case, etc...) to retrieve
> the actual installation paths. So far these are currently hardcoded for testing purposes
> only.
>  Note that I try to distinguish between ROS and Windows installations by checking at the
> company name vendor of the ntoskrnl.exe & ntdll.dll files, in order to allow the
> upgrade of ROS installations only.
>  Suggestions are always welcome. 
We should totally allow "upgrading" Windows installations with ROS.
We're obviously better ;)


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