Why? What for? 2011/3/31 Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo <elh...@gmail.com>
> "Edijus" at IRC wants to be voiced for the meeting... he is not subscribed > to this ML, thats why im emailing.... what do u think? > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gabriel ilardi <gabrielila...@hotmail.it > > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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