RE: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT

[Brian Palmer]

FreeLoader has been able to be installed and booted from an EXT2 file
system for quite some time now.

Brian
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Richard Campbell
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:53 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT
>
> see the earlier link i posted, there appears to be a working 
> ext2 driver 
> available...someone just needs to modify ROS/freeloader to 
> boot from an 
> ext2 partition
>
> Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:
> > I still think we should aim to get one of the Linux file systems 
> > working under ReactOS pretty soon-ish. Then if the worst
>
> does happen at
> > least it won't be such a major blow.
> >
> > OK, so the bad thing is, we'd lose FAT and maybe eventually NTFS 
> > support too. The good thing is... What's there to stop users
>
> from just
> > copying over the relevant system files from Windows
>
> NT/2000/XP when the
> > ReactOS kernel is strong enough to support them? Sure, if
>
> we're running
> > on a Linux file system it won't be a straightforward file copy 
> > operation, but it shouldn't be too hard to make a program that can 
> > shift a couple of files from Windows into the ReactOS
>
> partition, using
> > the ReactOS ext2/3/ReiserFS driver?
> >
> > This would swing in favour of Linux too, since people like me who 
> > dual-boot would no longer have to choose between no security/file 
> > system compatibility (using FAT for data), and high security/no file 
> > system compatibility (ext2/3/ReiserFS and NTFS.)
> >
> > And again, we could have a Linux swap partition driver (I
>
> use one for
> > my Win2k installation at the moment) and allow the user to
>
> select that
> > as a pagefile location.
> >
> > The end result would be that users might be less willing to install 
> > ReactOS for fear of losing FS compatibility with Windows.
>
> However, if
> > ROS can be booted from a CD, maybe it can have an option to run a 
> > "demo" environment where it loads everything from CD?
> >
> > Even better - why not just make the installer start up the
>
> GUI from the
> > CD with a "welcome to ReactOS" screen, and then from there
>
> let the user
> > select if they want to install or have a play around with ReactOS 
> > first. I mean, once it's loaded, it's loaded, right? So you
>
> could jump
> > into a useable OS and be able to do almost anything you can do with 
> > Windows. Maybe even allow network installation somehow?
> >
> > Just a few crazy ideas ;)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sami Petteri Niemi" [e-mail]
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT
> > > Discussion in Gentoo linux Forum: 
> > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=112001
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