Re: [ros-dev] Request for Comment / Setup

[Aleksey Bragin]

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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