It would seem to me that a stable release of ReactOS should be mature enough to implement its own native installer, it will have quality fat drivers and a good partition manager, it seems more likely that these alpha releases with broken installers would benefit from the cross installer you propose.
CK Raju wrote:
--- Paul Dufresne dufresnep@fastmail.fm wrote:
So I consider the installer very dangerous right
The importance of having a stable installer is paramount, as a minor flaw can break the confidence of a newbie.
A similar work was carried out for GNU (with Hurd servers on Mach microkernel) - http://projecthurd.tk
The feedbacks were encouraging, some even complimented the boot splash image shown in the site.
I am planning to go ahead with the cross-installation method now, as I don't know whether ReactOS is aiming at supporting other file systems, in future.
If it works out, then by the time we announce the stable release, we can have a pretty good installer in place, capable of installing ReactOS without disturbing the existing partitions.
CK Raju
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