Ros-general September 2004

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ReactOS 0.2.4 Released
by Robert Köpferl 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

The final version of ROS 0.2.4 has been uploaded to sourceforge and is now available to you.

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ReactOS is becoming more and more popular....
by Richard Campbell 25 Sep '04

25 Sep '04

Well, while trying to find a disk image creator for win32, i ran across this page: http://www.freeoszoo.org/ and noticed they have a disk image for ReactOS 0.2.3, niice :P

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Re:[ros-general] LinuxWorld in Germany
by ea＠iol.it 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Hi Eric! > I am going to make a one-day trip to the LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt. Is > there anyone else who plans to be there, except for Steven and Gé? I'll be there on the 27th and perhaps on the 28th (morning only), but I am going to visit the fair too. Emanuele

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LinuxWorld in Germany
by eric.kohl＠t-online.de 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Hi! I am going to make a one-day trip to the LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt. Is there anyone else who plans to be there, except for Steven and Gé? Regards, Eric

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0.2.4 feedback :)
by Bernd Blaauw 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hello, once again a quick user review with the ReactOS livecd (testing in Vmware). seems like 20MB RAM is the minimum for ReactOS. Anything lower, and kernel (ntoskrnl.exe) crashes very fast. SETUP might require not that much of RAM. Is the following scheme a usable one?: 0-12MB: crash (not enough memory) 12-20MB: load console (cmd.exe) 20MB-4GB: load GUI (explorer.exe). When you right-click START MENU, and select SETTINGS, the menu opens way too low (it shows 9 desktop screen layouts, and the 'show version info'. Also 'size' bar is not big in enough (in explorer, when viewing the size of explorer.exe, several MB), and screen refresh/repaint does not seem to work. Directories are displayed with 0 size, btw. All sizes in bytes by default? any attempts to put the LiveCD and installer on the same medium? or still a lot of conflicting files? floppy drive(r) still disabled? this release is looking good. Some comments though on the installer: *full GPL license (displayed in license screen of SETUP, option L that is) instead of a pointer. *setup still speaks about extended partitions, while meaning logical partitions inside a extended partition (it's a container, only 1 possible on harddisk). *Setup offers to install bootloader in floppy or harddisk (MBR). Why not both? Floppy is rescue medium if the harddisk bootloader fails. does it always install in MBR? or only for fresh disk like I had? *Vmware SVGA driver setup is a bit strange. 1)It says "Click next to continue or cancel to skip. 2)It also indicates to "Select Install VMware tools". It does not say: do [2] before doing [1]. New suggestion: "Setup has detected you're running in Vmware. ReactOS can use the VMware SVGA drivers. Press Cancel to skip installing them, or, in Vmware, select "Install Vmware tools" and then press Continue to install the SVGA driver." Also Vmware complains "No tools for this guest operating system", but that might be because I set up the VM as type MSDOS, then increase memory, then mount ReactOS iso-file and boot the VM. Perhaps setting it to 'win2000' is better (but then SCSI is used for harddisk, I guess). I had to mount the \program files\VMware\Windows.iso manually (as ISO to use for first cdrom device). Bernd

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ReactOS miniport failure.
by Devin Smith 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hi, I have asked about this problem on the IRC channel but I am now posting it to the mailing list in hopes that someone (who may or may not even go on IRC) may want to take a look at it.. Before we go into my problem specifically and I detail what I have tried I should probably give some specifications on the system I test on. My system is setup with the following hardware: Pentium 3 733 MHz (Coppermine) 448 MB SDRAM (256+128+64) 3DLabs Wildcat VP Intel 440BX chipset (yes, i know the card is only running in AGP 2x) Highpoint HPT370 IDE RAID chipset 2 IBM HDD First HDD contains 3 partitions (first is NTFS, second Linux, third Linux swap) Second HDD contains 1 partition (FAT32) (ReactOS is installed on here) My problem is that I'm getting an error regarding the loading of the miniport driver. I patched both the ntoskrnl/ke/main.c and ldr/init.c to show debug information. I think I patched a file in smss as well but only to enable debug information. Because I was unable to install from freeloader, I am booting from a floppy. My installation method was as follows (I only detail this because I feel this may be the cause of my problem): 1. Copy the 0.2.4 LiveCD structure (just the reactos directory) to E:\ReactOS 2. Add hpt3xx.sys to the SystemRoot\System32\drivers directory 3. Modify the hivesys.inf file to include driver support for the hpt3xx.sys (without this step I got INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bugcheck) 4. Comment out VMWARE and VBE information in hivesys.inf and hiveinst.inf and then rename framebuf.dll, and vbemp.sys to make sure they don't load. 5. Run reactos\tools\mkhive on the modified list of inf files to create the hive files and copy them to the SystemRoot\System32\Config directory.. It doesn't matter if step 4 is even performed or if I comment out VGA and just leave VBE in.. I get the same debug log. I don't even think that ReactOS is reading the files. Even if all drivers are there VMWARE, VBE, and VGA.. same debug output. I was wondering or hoping if someone could suggest more modules to add debugging information to help find out where the problem is but I also understand that it's possible that my hardware is just completely uncompatible with ReactOS and may work in some future release. Anyways I'll get to the debug log.. I put it at the following website: http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/error6.txt Thanks in advance, Devin Smith

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Null modem cable problems.
by Devin Smith 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Is there any way to test and see if my null modem cable is any good? If I open up two Hyperterminals on Windows I can type back and forth, or if I use Minicom and Hyperterminal I can type from one computer over the COM port and receive it on the other but when I run ReactOS in debug mode with the /DEBUG and /DEBUGPORT=COM1 I can't get anything to come across the communications port. the /BAUDRATE=19200 and I know all my setting are correct in the terminal computer that is receiving but I'm unable to get any data at all.. Is ReactOS not using 8N1 for the parity settings ? I'm currently trying to figure out why I'm getting a SESSION4_INITIALIZATION_FAILED bug check error. Maybe ReactOS hasn't opened up the COM port yet for communications ? Any help? Thanks in advance, Devin

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ReactOS fails to install
by Devin Smith 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

I an unable to boot my ReactOS cd. I receive the following error message: Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : Press any key to boot from CD. Detecting hardware... Invalid partition table magic (0xaa55) Error Code: 0x0 Error: no error Press any key No active partition. Press any key Some info about my hardware. The drive is an IBM 13.5 GB IDE drive. It currently has Windows 2000, and Linux on it. I have a second drive on the computer, currently formatted as FAT32 on the first partition that I wanted to install ReactOS on. The computer has an HPT370 IDE RAID controller on it that my drive is attached to. I did add the NT4 HPT drivers to the CD though. LILO is on the MBR. 1) I downloaded the latest CVS (09-09-2004) and compiled it using "make". 2) After that finished I typed "make registry" to create any necessary hives. 3) I edited hivesys.inf and added the following lines: ; Highpoint HPT370A driver HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","ErrorControl",0x00010001,0x00000000 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Group",0x00000000,"SCSI Miniport" HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","ImagePath",0x00020000,"system32\drivers\hpt3xx.sys" HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Start",0x00010001,0x00000000 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Type",0x00010001,0x00000001 4) I edited txtsetup.sif and added the following line in [SourceFiles] hpt3xx.sys = 3 5) I added the file hpt3xx.sys to bootcd\disk\reactos\ 6) Finally I typed "make bootcd" to create the ISO file. Burned the CD and restarted my computer with this cd in the drive. If anyone can help me thanks.. I've been having this exact same error message since ReactOS 0.2.2 Thanks in advance, Devin Smith devinsmith AT gmail.com

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Re: [ros-general] Mailing lists
by Inti Carvajal 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

how do you clone? >From: "Stephen Hodges" <theteofscuba(a)hotmail.com> >Reply-To: ReactOS General List <ros-general(a)reactos.com> >To: "ReactOS General List" <ros-general(a)reactos.com> >Subject: Re: [ros-general] Mailing lists >Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:20:29 -0400 > >Or you could just ask and not tell them you are cloning it. > > >Stephen >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tom Lee Mullins" <tomleem(a)comcast.net> >To: "ReactOS General List" <ros-general(a)reactos.com> >Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 6:46 PM >Subject: Re: [ros-general] Mailing lists > > > > Andrew Greenwood wrote: > > > > >I can just see it now: > > > > > >"Can anyone from Microsoft help me to write my own version of Windows?" > > >:D > > > > > > > > > > > I guess that would be like asking a shark to help you with a cut that is > > bleeding. > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Stephen Hodges" <theteofscuba(a)hotmail.com> > > >To: <ros-general(a)reactos.com> > > >Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 1:35 AM > > >Subject: [ros-general] Mailing lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>If you are interested in an alternative forum for driver development, >you > > >>may want to check out > > >>http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=ListServer > > >> > > >>Considering it's free and it is a fairly active mailing list (probably >the > > >>leading one for that matter) on NT driver development, and frequented >by > > >>Microsoft as well as other leading brand companies, it may be able to >help > > >>you. > > >> > > >>Stephen. > > >>_______________________________________________ > > >>ros-general mailing list > > >>ros-general(a)reactos.com > > >>http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >ros-general mailing list > > >ros-general(a)reactos.com > > >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > TomLeeM > > BigWarpGuy - BigMiniGuy - BigDosGuy > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > eComStation > > The OS For the Internet Generation > > http://www.ecomstation.com > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ros-general mailing list > > ros-general(a)reactos.com > > http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > >_______________________________________________ >ros-general mailing list >ros-general(a)reactos.com >http://reactos.com/mailman/listinfo/ros-general _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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New web team
by Jason Filby 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Hi all The web team took its first step into becoming a reality today with the appointment of our Web Coordinator: Phil Paradis. Phil has 12 years experience in the IT industry and is currently CIO for TransOps.net. Phil will be leading the web team in looking at the future of reactos.com and maintaining the existing site in the meantime. If you're interested in joining the web team - subscribe to ros-web(a)reactos.com by visiting the Mailing List page on reactos.com! Regards Jason Filby Project Coordinator _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush

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