Re: [ros-general] Installing ReactOS with other OSes

[Robert Köpferl]

You can use the zip-distribution or even compile it yourself.
ROS then ends up in C:\Reactos

It's then possible to boot ROS by choosing Win98's "Just Commandline without

anything"
makin Cd reactos
and start it via  boot.bat

Rakhesh Sasidharan schrieb:

>   Hi all!
>  
>  Am thinking of trying out ReactOS on my home machine, but thought I'd
>  clarify a few things before going ahead. 
>  
>  My current setup is this: I have a primary master disk, on which I have
>  Windows 98 (primary partition), FreeBSD (primary partition), Windows XP
>  and Linux (logical partitions). I use GRUB as my bootloader. I have a
>  secondary master disk, on which I plan to install FreeDOS (primary
>  partition), and ReactOS (primary partition). I checked up with the
>  FreeDOS folks and it seems installing FreeDOS into my existing setup is
>  a no problem -- FreeDOS would need its equivalent of config.sys and
>  autoexec.bat to be present on my C: (which is the Windows 98 partition),
>  and other than that there should be no hassles (FreeDOS will install its
>  bootsector on its partition only, and I can get GRUB to load it from
>  there).
>  
> >  From the installation pages of ReactOS, I figure
> > that if I were to 
>  install ReactOS into my current setup, it would add itself to
> the
>  Windows XP boot manager. Coz my Windows 98 partition is currently
>  active, and that's where the XP boot manager is installed, and that's
>  where the ntldr and boot.ini files are located. Righto? 
>  
>  But suppose I don't want to boot ReactOS through the XP boot manager,
>  can I do the following: make the ReactOS partition as active beforehand,
>  and so when ReactOS installs itself it will find that the active
>  partition has no boot manager or files etc and so will install the
>  bootsectors to this partition ... and then I can use GRUB to load these
>  bootsectors to boot into ReactOS? Is this possible? ReactOS wont
>  overwrite my MBR (GRUB) or XP boot manager etc in this case right? 
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Rakhesh
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