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@uwasa.fi To: ros-general@reactos.com Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [ros-general] Microsoft wants royalties for use of FAT
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