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

[Thomas Mueller]

>  > 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... 

>   Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
I believe FreeDOS can boot from USB if the BIOS supports USB, but then I suppose ReactOS,
like other non-DOS OSes, does not use the BIOS beyond finding the initial boot code.

New developments make ReactOS more interesting, and I might like to test some MS-Windows
hardware drivers.

I could try to install ReactOS onto a USB stick but might wait until later for
improvements in USB support.

I must remember that ReactOS 0.3.15 iso burned to CD failed to boot on my computers.

If I subsequently want to build application software for ReactOS, I suppose I could use
Wine under Linux or FreeBSD.

Regarding lack of support for GPT in ReactOS, OpenBSD also fails to support GPT.

Tom