Ros-general January 2004

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ReactOS 0.2 RC1
by Marc Schütz 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Hi, I have some serious problems with the installer in Bochs (v2.1). I've created a 500M hd image, and started installation from the ISO-Image with 32M ram. The installer created a partition and formatted it without any problems. However, the installation hangs then, usually during "Building the file copy list...", sometimes also later, after having copied about half of the files. With 64M ram, the installation finishes successfully, but after rebooting, freeldr complains about missing "ntoskrnl.exe". Investigation with mtools shows, that during the installation the files are copied onto the harddrive correctly, but after the importing of the registry, they are somehow removed, and explorer.exe and regedit.exe appear directly in c:\reactos instead of bin or system32. bash-2.05b$ mdir c:/ Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is 742C-29E2 Directory for C:/ REACTOS <DIR> 01-18-2004 14:34 ReactOS freeldr sys 119296 01-15-2004 23:39 freeldr ini 672 01-18-2004 14:39 bootsect old 512 01-18-2004 14:39 4 files 120 480 bytes 402 456 576 bytes free bash-2.05b$ mdir c:/reactos Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is 742C-29E2 Directory for C:/reactos . <DIR> 01-18-2004 14:34 .. <DIR> 01-18-2004 14:34 system32 <DIR> 01-18-2004 14:34 media <DIR> 01-18-2004 14:34 bin <DIR> 01-18-2004 14:34 5 files 0 bytes 402 456 576 bytes free bash-2.05b$ mdir c:/reactos Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is 742C-29E2 Directory for C:/reactos explorer exe 884224 01-18-2004 14:37 regedit exe 117721 01-18-2004 14:37 2 files 1 001 945 bytes 402 456 576 bytes free Regards, Marc Schütz

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:D
by Richard Campbell 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

http://eek2121.home.comcast.net/aolsetup.PNG

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Nice...
by Richard Campbell 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

The latest commits fix ALOT of focusing issues, i must say NIIICE. I still can't click browse on the Run dialog without a lockup, nor can i open an explorer window, nore can i navigate the drives in the start menu, but window focusing issues are fixed, and explorer is beginning to act a bit less off the wall. Nice job!

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ReactOS 0.3 suggestions...
by Richard Campbell 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

I'd like to make some suggestions for ROS 0.3 support (i actually plan to be more active in the coming months for the project, so i intend to help out with these quite a bit) - Working Menus - Remaining painting glitches squashed - Mozilla Firebird/Thunderbird working (tcp support? need a tcp stack) - More stable. - Better driver compatibility. - Bug fixes in the controls, like the edit control, etc. Well, anyways, time to rest, Richard

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Status og Winzip Installation
by Gge 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

I tested the installation of Winzip from Reactos command prompt C:\Reactos> but The WINZIP 8.0 installation failed. First a message box is displayed "WINZIP 8.0 Setup" and then I click on SETUP Button Unzipping files messages are displayed inside this message box.. A 2nd message box "Winzip self Extractor" is displayed with the content "Error on running command .\SETUP . Some DebugPort messages are output that I could forwared if needed. I understood that earlier some testing has been done but I don'recall if it was 100 % successful ? Is it supposed to work now ? Thanks and best regards. Gerard

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Explorer does NOT compile.
by Colin Burn 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Hi, I'm having some difficulty compiling ROS. I had to make a small tweak to <wine\config.h> (see my previous email) and everything compiles, except the explorer (which I've removed from my make file). The explorer fails to compile because wstring is not defined. wstring in undefined because I have... #ifdef _GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T template<> struct char_traits<wchar_t>; typedef basic_string<wchar_t> wstring; #endif ...in stringfwd.h (in the MinGW headers). I've tried defining _GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T but the MinGW headers seem to be flawed. I'm using MinGW 3.0.0, as linked to from reactos.com, but I notice 3.1.0 is also available (it appears to have the same problem). How do you guys compile the explorer? Cheers Col

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React OS in Virtual PC 6
by Ronald Gaudet 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

I tried running the latest ReactOS ISO in Virtual PC 6 and it installs fine but crashes when I boot it up. Also it did the same thing when I installed previous versions. I have no programming experience but I am interested in testing ReactOS. I will send a screen shot of the error.

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Re: [ros-general] $$$ Bountys on ReactOS development - 0.2 Relase
by Jason Filby 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Hi Mark I agree that the embedded market is one to look at. However, the reliability of ReactOS would have to be proven to be successful I'm sure. Cheers Jason Mark Grosberg wrote: > > >On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Jason Filby wrote: > > > > > >>Hi all >> >> > > > > > > >>Indeed, Steven and myself are having a little debate on this issue. >> >> > > > >>This >> >> > > > >>is because I'm in the planning stages of setting up a for-profit >> >> > > > >>company >> >> > > > >>that would sell solutions around ReactOS and eventually look to hire >> >> > > > >>ReactOS developers fulltime. I feel that such redistribution of >> >> > > > >>ReactOS, >> >> > > > >Can I make a suggestion? Go after the embedded market as well as the > >desktop market. I worked for years at a company on embedded products that > >had no user-interface but we were required to use NT. And honestly, the NT > >kernel (witout the GUI) is pretty good for soft-real time stuff. > > > >Interestingly enough, I just started an embedded systems company for some > >software that I used to have as GPL. But I stopped supporting the GPL > >tree due to lack of interest. > > > >I like the corporation idea. Maybe a good thing to do would be to see if > >Lindows would offer a bounty or be a first customer. They seem to have the > >sales channel starting up. > > > > > >>before its usable as a desktop OS, through this company would be an >> >> > > > >>excellent exersize in getting operations started - while contributing >> >> > > > >The NTFS driver and networking are two areas that really need improvment. > > > >L8r, > >Mark G. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >ros-general mailing list > >ros-general(a)reactos.com > >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Re: [ros-general] Explorer does NOT compile.
by Jason Filby 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Will this just be for the code in CVS or for 0.2 as well? Cheers Jason Ge van Geldorp wrote: >>From: Colin Burn >> >> > > > > > > >>I'm using MinGW 3.0.0, as linked to from reactos.com, but I >> >> > > > >>notice 3.1.0 is also available (it appears to have the same problem). >> >> > > > > > > >>How do you guys compile the explorer? >> >> > > > >Unfortunately there have been some changes in the build tools recently, > >making the info on reactos.com out of date. Jason, could you please > >update this? > > > >You need: > >- MinGW 3.1.0 > >- GCC + G++ 3.3.1 (I think this is your problem) > >- w32api CVS > > > >G� van Geldorp. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >ros-general mailing list > >ros-general(a)reactos.com > >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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Re: [ros-general] $$$ Bountys on ReactOS development - 0.2 Relase
by Jason Filby 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Hi Steven I would assume it would be set up on the Foundation's website. Cheers Jason Steven Edwards wrote: >Hello Alexksey, > > > >--- Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)studiocerebral.com> wrote: > > > >> Steven, >> >> > > > >>yes, sorry, you're certainly right in this topic. ROS Foundation is a >> >> > > > >>great >> >> > > > >>idea, and my idea in previous mail was that cd-selling idea would >> >> > > > >>gather >> >> > > > >>very little money. >> >> > > > >Yes I think the CD selling idea wouldn't generate much money at this > >point by either the Foundation or Jasons company. > > > > > >>As for 'sponsoring' bugs' solutions - really nice idea, I would >> >> > > > >>personally >> >> > > > >>fix bugs or implementing TCP/IP if I be paid that amount of money :-) >> >> > > > >>And I think $500 isn't so small amount, even to >> >> > > > >>not-Chinese-Indian-Russian >> >> > > > >>people :-) >> >> > > > >Cool. Does everyone else think this is a good idea? If so then lets > >move forward with it. Jason: If your short on time I can do some of the > >web work to setup this donation system on reactos.com/.org > > > >Thanks > >Steven > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes > >http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus > >_______________________________________________ > >ros-general mailing list > >ros-general(a)reactos.com > >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

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