Hi GvG!
Ge van Geldorp wrote:
>>For those who are at the Linux world expo at Frankfurt, how
>>is that going? I, and probably the rest of the people reading
>>the mail lists whana know any news from you guys.
>
>
> Yeah, sorry about not reporting earlier, I'd expected to be able to hook up
> to the Internet there in some way but that didn't happen.
>
> We've been there with Aleksey Bragin, KJK::Hyperion, Steven Edwards and
> myself on all 3 days, Wednesday Emanuele Aliberti and Eric Kohl were there
> and Thursday Thomas Weidenmueller. I think Thomas already summed it up quite
> nicely. We didn't have as much visitors as at Linux World in San Francisco
> last year, but the people in Frankfurt were far more positive about ReactOS
> than the people in SF. I was also amazed at the number of people who had
> already heard about the project, must have been between 50 and 75%. We
> distributed a few hundred hand-outs and 80 LiveCDs. It was nice to see some
> of the people accept a hand-out, walk on with their head down reading it,
> suddenly stop and turn back to look at the demo.
That's good news.
>
> Most of the time we ran the Quake 1 demo plus some other stuff, depending on
Quake 1 !!!!! how!?!!? write up a Howto_Quake_Reactos!
Please Please Please!!!!! 8^)
> our mood. Sometimes ReactOS would crash after a few minutes, sometimes it
> would stay up for an hour or so. Running too many programs at the same time
> was a sure recipe for a crash. Still, most people didn't run away even if it
> crashed, they understood the alpha-state of development.
>
> We also made contact with some other OSS groups, like the Samba people and
> the Linux-on-XBOX guys. Everyone seemed very willing to cooperate.
>
> For me personally the nicest thing was to meet some of the other developers.
> I'd seen Steven before but none of the others. We also had some good
> discussions about future plans (what to target after 0.3).
>
> I took some pictures, will post them on some website tomorrow, I'm too tired
> now.
>
> Gé van Geldorp.
>
>
Very Good!
James
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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> > >
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> >
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