Re: [ros-dev] Installer

[TwoTailedFox]

"NT-Compatible".
I can make a bootable Windows XP Professional Live CD, with all the
functionality you just described, bar X11.
It all boils down into how much effort you take to make it.
On 12/4/05, Jonathan Andrews <jon(a)jonshouse.co.uk> wrote:
>   Hello to the group.... my first post....
>  I noticed some talk about the Reactos installer following the windows
>  form. As a long time NT admin who moved into product development on
>  Linux I would just like to point out how mediocre the windows installer
>  is.
>  With a bootable linux ISO you get a full network stack, functional USB
>  support, detected UDMA IDE drivers, Vesfa FB X11 etc etc etc... with the
>  windows installer you get a kernel, a few utils and a pretty inflexable
>  installer.
>  Would it not make more sense to write an installer thats based on a
>  bootable Linux image - if nothing else the use of networking offers a
>  host of possibilities (diskless installs, updates from the internet
>  during the install phase and so on).
>  Is the aim to clone windows, or to produce an operating system that is
>  API compatible with win32 ? They are very different aims with very
>  different requirements!
>  Jon
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