Ros-general January 2004

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Re: [ros-general] Interest in ReactOS
by ea＠iol.it 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

> But the bottom line is that the semantics are part of the API. The best > you could do is a UNC path like: > > \\myhost\root\blah\blah > > And then *really* SMB serve that to yourself locally. It seems like a lot > of effort for very little gains. Keep also in mind the new path semantics introduced by the Windows 2000 Server Distributed File System (DFS) service, when the DFS root is hosted in an Active Directory (AD) Domain Controller (DC). Assume your directory is "example.com". You have two DCs (DC1 and DC2). Your DFS root is in \\DC1\root and you have a DFS replica in \\DC2\root. From PCs with Win2k, Win2k3 and WinXP belonging to the "example.com" AD, you can simply write "\\example.com\root" to access the DFS root (but you don't know which physical host (DC1, or DC2) you will be actually redirected to). Emanuele

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Re: Interest in ReactOS (tappak)
by Semyon Novikov 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

If anybody want have UNIX fs style on ROS, just use zsh from Unix2Win tools. And now you can use pathes such as "/ReactOS/system32/psxss.sys" But peoples! What you thing about "device filesystem" for ReactOS? Just directory or drive, who contain some "device" files? I'm too yang to do that, but, may be anything else want to start this project? -- Best regards, Semyon Sorry for my english :)

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Re:[ros-general] Drive letters
by ea＠iol.it 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

> Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but on my Win2k system I can > mount any partition I want on any (NTFS) directory, just like you can > mount filesystems on directories in Unix. So just make your C: drive > NTFS, mount the other partitions, and forget about the C: if you want > Unix-style paths. This is exactly what I did here, but later I was forced to dismount the CD-ROM unit and the burner, because Nero 5.5 was not compatible with mounted devices.

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Hardware for testing drivers?
by Karl Hammerschmidt 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

I have a modest collection of PC hardware that could be used to test drivers. Is there anything that is high on the wish-list? I have a VIA Mini-ITX board, which has just about every controller that VIA makes integrated on the board, so if anyone wanted to write drivers for via chipsets or LAN controllers, I could test them. I also have a variety of other stuff, and I know some local (Minneapolis Minnesota, USA) hardware-scroungers, so I might be able to get stuff. I think it's really cool that you guys have gotten so far! If you guys had a PayPal account, I think lots of people would donate. - Karl Hammerschmidt

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ISO-Image does not boot.
by Zeno R.R. Davatz 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Hi I am trying to boot from your new ISO-image ReactOS 0.2 24.1.2004. My maschine does not want to boot from CD. I bruned my image with the following command: cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data reactos.iso I am running a i386 with IDE CD-Rom and WIN 2000 any hints? thanks for your feedback. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards Zeno Davatz Verkauf & Akquisition +41 1 350 85 86 www.ywesee.com > intellectual capital connected > www.oddb.org

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Re: [ros-general] Interest in ReactOS
by Karl Hammerschmidt 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Linus Torvalds has said recently that Linux won't be ready for the desktop for 5 to 10 years. If ROS can fill that gap, I'm not going to complain. And if all goes well, ROS has a lot to offer, including the potential for good application and driver support, standard printing APIs, and a standard GUI. I think the attraction of ROS is different from that of Linux. People who want to have a custom OS (choice of desktop, etc.) will be perfectly happy with linux. - Karl On Jan 26, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Björn Fischer wrote: > Mark IJbema wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:25:05PM +0200, Ciobanu Alexander wrote: >> >>> I was just wondering, don't you guys think ReactOS is a treat to >>> GNU/Linux ? >>> For ex. when ROS becomes stable enough i will surely pass to ROS >>> instead of Linux (that i use now). Of course having a lot of GNU >>> utils in ROS , GPL licence, and free Win32 implementation is a >>> temptation for many developers and even GNU/Linux users. So isn't >>> ROS going to unbalance the balance between GNU/Linux / BSD ..etc and >>> MS Win ? >>> >> >> Well, maybe it will, but what's the problem with that? >> >> Mark >> > > Why should it? I think the term "free" is like the one in 'free > speech', not 'free beer'. ROS will be free in that meaning. Why > shouldn't the variety of OS's grow? I think the more free OS's there > are, the better it is for the user because he is free in choosing the > OS he likes. > > Probably "militant" open source lovers will have problems with ROS > because it is supposed to be compatible with a lot of "non-free" > software. But I think it would be good for users. > > Greetings > > Björn > _______________________________________________ > ros-general mailing list > ros-general(a)reactos.com > http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general >

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RE: WineConf
by Wierd Wierd 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

on Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:02:18 -0600 Vizzini wrote: >All, > >Steven Edwards, Mark Tempel, Art Yerkes, and I will >be attending >WineConf 1/31-2/1. One or more of us will be >presenting about ReactOS >on Sunday morning. We're going to start work on a >presentation soon, >and in preparation, I'd like to have links or e-mail >of any screenshots >that you think look nice for the presentation. Also, >any suggestions, >hints, etc., would be appreciated. > >Thanks. > > -Vizzini Sure Vizzini, I'd love to make a bunch of screenshots- any programs of choice you would like to see? I am going to do a crusing of SourceForge, looking for freely obtainable win32 applications for testing now, and will provide screenshots of the more successful ones. What kinds of applications would the WineConf people feel 'awed' over? I might expand my testing base to include windows shareware also- As far as I know, I dont have any commercial applications that currently can run on ReactOS, so this is the best I can do. Would love some feedback on what you would find useful... Larry Snyder __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Re: [ros-general] Interest in ReactOS
by Jason Filby 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Excellent work with optimizing those parameters! And it's really great to see all the interest. As the project grows it will only increase. Cheers Jason Ge van Geldorp wrote: >It seems the release of 0.2 generated a lot of interest. Most of the > >reactions are pretty predictable, either "Why???" or "Wow!!!" with the > >"Wow" ones being in the majority I think. > > > >The website served 1.8 million requests the last 24 hours. At times it > >was overloaded, but it seems we have found a set of parameters which > >works pretty well now. > > > >G� van Geldorp. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >ros-general mailing list > >ros-general(a)reactos.com > >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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A little walkthrough on how to use VMware 4 images in BOCHS and Linux.
by Wierd Wierd 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I created this to show that VMware can create and use 'Raw' disk images, and Vizzini said I should post it here for everybody. He seemed most enthused about being able to mount the disk image under linux... Anyway, here we go: http://lunacyinc.dyndns.org:88/VMware-Bochs/VMware_Bochs.HTML (beware linewrapping) Please enjoy, and note that this is specific to VMware 4, since I dont have previous versions to test with. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Building on linux
by Ciobanu Alexander 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

I get this errors when trying to compile ros on linux : I use mingw 2.4-1 mingw-binutils-2.4-1 mingw-runtime [root@schultz reactos]# make make -C tools make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/Projects/cvs/reactos/tools' gcc -I./include -pipe -march=i386 -D_M_IX86 -Wall -Werror -I../include -pipe -march=i386 -D_M_IX86 -DDOS_PATHS rmkdir.c -o rmkdir.exe rmkdir.c: In function `mkdir_p': rmkdir.c:68: error: too few arguments to function `mkdir' make[1]: *** [rmkdir.exe] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/Projects/cvs/reactos/tools' make: *** [tools] Error 2 [root@schultz reactos]# and a lot of theese ........... alot !!!! ../include/ntos/rtltypes.h:184:22: pshpack1.h: No such file or directory ../include/ntos/rtltypes.h:199:21: poppack.h: No such file or directory And this when trying to compile freeldr: [root@schultz freeldr]# make make -C tools make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/Projects/cvs/freeldr/tools' Tools are up to date. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/Projects/cvs/freeldr/tools' make -C bootsect make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/Projects/cvs/freeldr/bootsect' make: Entering an unknown directory make: *** ..tools: No such file or directory. Stop. make: Leaving an unknown directory make[1]: *** [..\tools\bin2c] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/Projects/cvs/freeldr/bootsect' make: *** [all] Error 2 [root@schultz freeldr]# My Gues : make: *** ..tools: No such file or directory. Stop. >>>> ..tools , where is the separoator ? i've looked in makefile, it's ok ?? hmmm .... what's wrong ? am i doing something wrong here ?

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