On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:47:22 +0100 (BST), "CK Raju" ckraju68@yahoo.co.in said:
But is the process of recognising other partitions stable ? Can ReactOS be installed in extended partitions ? Does it recognise extended partitions now ? These are the questions that will be eliminated with adoption of a cross-installer.
It did break the partition table I had the 2 times I have tried on real hardware. The two times, I had Ubuntu installed in logical partitions. Each times, it see my 10Gb as 4Gb, and give a warning it does not understand correctly my partition table.
First time, it did seems to see some unused space (there was probably none in reality) and I let it installed there, stopping just before installing the boot loader (I wanted to use grub to start it). But when I tried to reboot, computer was unable to boot, not even go to the BIOS. Reinitializing CMOS or reflashing BIOS did not help. Finally discover that unplugging the HD fixed the BIOS. Probably a BIOS bug, expecting a correct MBR and partition table.
Next time (about 1 week ago), I had made a primary partition for it, and still have Linux on logical one. But it seems to have break the partition table once again (not sure how I convinced myself of that however, I think because I was not able to search for /boot/grub/menu.lst from grub on hd0).
I was given on a link in IRC about an unfinished patch on hyperheterodyne, or superheterodyne... that was about the partition manager. Was 1 or 2 years old however.
I read it a bit, patch and code for usetup?, but not good enough yet to really understand.
So I consider the installer very dangerous right now.
--- 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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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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--- Nate DeSimone desimn@rpi.edu wrote:
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.
Good. I am going ahead with the cross-installer. There's also a team here working on implementing a Virtual File System - to support ext fs!!
CK Raju
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