On Fri, 03 May 2013 17:57:21 +0200, Martin Sucha <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Dominik,
On 05/03/2013 05:19 PM, Dominik Taborsky wrote:
I think you may have misunderstood the point of this library. This
library is aimed at HelenOS, not to replace standard tools. It is for
the case when you have blank harddrive so that you can format it and
install HelenOS. It's not designed to fit all needs. If it is really
necessary (for inter-OS compatibility), you can use better tool instead,
since you are going to be using a different OS anyway.
I tend to disagree, I'd like to be able to install HelenOS alongside
another operating system (or two) from within HelenOS, even on a
notebook computer with recovery partitions and such things. I think the
ultimate goal is for HelenOS to *be* the standard OS you use to run
programs on your computer ;)
I already have triple-boot setup on my laptop (Windows/Linux/HelenOS),
why should I have to purchase a separate hard-disk just to use the
installer on real hardware?
What I meant was that when you do this kind of setup, you partition the
drive from Linux anyway. I also have dual, triple or multiple boot setups.
When you get your hardware with preinstalled Windows, you have to run
Linux so that you can run ntfs-resize, for example. When you don't plan on
using Windows but only sensible OSs like Linux, then you either partition
the drive from Linux so that you can use LVM and other advanced stuff, or
you are just fine with LBA-only MBR from HelenOS.
So instead of saying the library is implemented this way because it is
aimed at HelenOS, isn't it better to say that the aim was to create a
prototype for your thesis?
Surely, I admit it is for my thesis. But I also sincerely think an
all-or-nothing implementation is not necessary. Or do you have disks
smaller than 8.4GB on top of legacy hardware and use legacy OSs? :-)
But anyway, I am glad we can openly discuss this.
Dominik
Regards,
Martin Sucha
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