Fwd: Re: setup's fat32 format

[Paul Dufresne]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:47:22 +0100 (BST), "CK Raju"
[e-mail] 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.
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[CK Raju]

--- Paul Dufresne [e-mail] 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]

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 [e-mail] 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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[CK Raju]

--- Nate DeSimone [e-mail] 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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