It would make sense first to see how it's done on Windows (Vista?).
vmwinst is a temporary solution until VMWare Tools installer works, and it allows easy install of vmware video drivers. However, it's useless with newer VMWare versions, until it's patched to access the video driver inside the .cab file.
Anyway, I suggest keeping compatible, and study first how windows achieves the same before inventing our own way.
WBR, Aleksey Bragin.
On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Matthias Kupfer wrote:
Hi all,
I'm working on first stage gui setup. During the development i reviewed the base/setup directory and the different modules. I suggest following changes:
Now: reactos.exe: atm greeting only with disabled first stage setup dialogs setup.exe: switcher for 2nd stage setup (syssetup) or livecd usetup.exe: textmode 1st stage setup vmwinst.exe: don't know exactly, vm-ware driver installation welcome.exe: nice welcome dialog without real functions
Future: setup.exe: switcher for 1st stage gui setup, 2nd stage setup, livecd and welcome dialog switched by command line arguments "setup.exe" -> welcome dialog "setup.exe -mini" -> livecd "setup.exe -newsetup1" -> 1st stage gui setup "setup.exe -newsetup2" -> 2nd stage (gui) setup usetup.exe: textmode 1st-stage-setup vmwinst.exe: keeps unchangend reactos.exe, welcome.exe: removed
Are there any objections to go this way? If not, so i will change this soon.
Matthias
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