Team, may I suggest we create a branch for Andrew? Thanks. Gabriel.
> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:42:30 +1000 > From: greenie...@gmail.com > To: ros-dev@reactos.org > Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Meeting on Thursday > > Probably best not to vote on this. As there will be people that don't > understand what I'm trying to do and what the actual consequences and > benefits are. I will just do it the way I see it in my mind, and you > guys can check out the results. > If you do have any interest you can of course contact me on irc or by email. > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Andrew Green <greenie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually they can't be merged at the moment. They can be in seperate > > directories on the same cd eg reactos and reactoslive. > > This is how it was done for the dual boot cd's distributed, at that > > convention. > > The reason why is that usetup deletes smss.exe and replaces it with > > itself, and the livecd requires the original smss.exe > > also those cd's were 200mb+. Currently loading smss.exe is hardcoded > > into ntoskrnl.exe. So ntoskrnl.exe needs to be fixed. > > plus server files like ntoskrnl.exe,ntkrnlmp.exe,hal.exe, etc are > > identical to the livecd ones except are in the reactos folder instead > > of the system32 folder. > > > > Also the reason I'm asking this is because my google summer of code > > project is to be able to install from the livecd. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Zachary Gorden > > <drakekaizer...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We already have the capability to merge the two. But there's nothing > >> fundamentally broken in having two versions until such time as we can > >> actually install from the liveCD. Until that happens, I don't see a > >> convincing argument for merging the two, since the ones outlined above seem > >> to boil down to "it might confuse people." > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreu...@web.de> wrote: > >>> > >>> Am 30.03.2011 10:42, schrieb Aleksey Bragin: > >>>>> > >>>>> Disadvantages > >>>>> -To download an iso to just install will be larger(A compressed > >>>>> version could counter this. Though it's not ideal) > >>>> > >>>> Even additional 10Mb would become 100Mb when regress testing just 10 > >>>> revisions. There are many people (myself included) who don't have > >>>> high-speed > >>>> connection all the time too. > >>> > >>> Although its a valid point, I understood it as we wanted to switch to a > >>> 1st stage gui installer(?) > >>> In that case, we would need all the stuff for a livecd anyway. > >>> Maybe we should first evaluate how much memory this would really be. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Timo > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Ros-dev mailing list > >>> Ros-dev@reactos.org > >>> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Ros-dev mailing list > >> Ros-dev@reactos.org > >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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