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-----
>  From: ros-general-bounces(a)reactos.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Richard Campbell
>  Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:53 AM
>  To: ros-general(a)reactos.com
>  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" <j82144(a)uwasa.fi>
> > To: <ros-general(a)reactos.com>
> > 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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