Hi,

Just by copying files with folders wouldn't make it normal ReactOS installation,

you also need create boot sector(s) OK by filling it, the problem is we do not have proper tools for it. I.e. tool just like sys.exe/sys.com utility was in DOS/Windows 9x or fixmbr.exe utility is for Windows 2000+ or "bootrec /fixmbr" for WinVista+.

More on this could be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record#Editing.2Freplacing_MBR_contents

More on ReactOS startup steps described can be found by links here:
https://www.reactos.org/wiki/User:Mna.#ReactOS_startup_procedure_described_.28partly.29

Regards,

Minas

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:02 AM, João Jerónimo <j_j_b_o_devel@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 09-12-2014 15:52, Aleksey Bragin wrote:

I think it's possible to find my rants about that here in ros-dev, and there were some replies too which tried to explain why using make install such a bad idea.

Thanks for the insight... I'll search it.

As far as I have concluded from looking into the result of the "make bootcd" command, a simple python script can replace the "make install" command, by extracting the files in the .CAB into the correct folder (they are discrimined in another in-CD text file which name I don't remember). That can be an alternative.

JJ

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