Re: [ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article
On 08/11/2014 07:14, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Dear Thomas, > >>> I really would like something readable and writable, like USB stick, as >>> opposed to live CD. > >> There's no easy way to do so. >> Even if you'd copy contents of the LiveCD to an USB drive, it wouldn't >> be writable, the CDFS driver we use is also read-only. > > >> Pierre Schweitzer > > My idea was to build and use the ROSBE on FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux to build > the trunk, then install to a USB stick formatted FAT32. > > Question is whether that could boot. In theory, it could. In practice, I'm not that sure, you're really dependent on USB. And I'm not sure it's in a that good shape, unfortunately... > > Linux, the BSDs and Haiku can be installed on a USB stick, but I believe > MS-Windows can't. > > I thought of buying a cheap refurbished SATA hard disk, maybe 80 or 160 GB, > and using that to install ReactOS, FreeDOS and possibly something else > (OpenBSD?), but ReactOS and FreeDOS have the limitation of having to be the > first FAT16 or FAT32 partition on the disk, has to be drive C: > > I might set up to boot with Syslinux. > > Tom > > > ___ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > -- Pierre Schweitzer System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
Re: [ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article
On 07/11/2014 19:52, Sven Barth wrote: > On 07.11.2014 13:19, Pierre Schweitzer wrote: >> On 07/11/2014 12:05, Thomas Mueller wrote: Dear Thomas, >>> This source of such article is a post from reboot.pro (http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/) where I report this progress and ask for help. >>> On ReactOS website, you don't have such strong report, but the piece of information exists, spread in various places. People started talking about it on boards a few days ago. You have a short report about it in the latest ReactOS developer meeting minutes (https://www.reactos.org/node/909). And finally, the commits made on NTFS where kind of explicit about the progresses (coming along with pictures: https://git.reactos.org/?p=reactos.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=[NTFS]). >>> Note that the 0.3.17 release has initial, but not full (release process was started before everything could be developed) NTFS support. Testing from trunk is then the preferred method. >>> Cheers, >>> Pierre Schweitzer >>> >>> Thanks for the link! >>> >>> I can see why, in a developing OS or application, following trunk >>> would be the indicated method. >>> >>> Problem is I have no hard-drive space (actually I do, but it's >>> GPT-partitioned). >> >> We indeed so far don't support GPT disks. It would require some changes >> to be done in our storage stack. >> This is somehow on my todo list, but it's kind of huge ;-). > > Out of curiosity: why is it so extensive to implement? From my > understanding (I'm currently working with partition tables at work) GPT > should be simpler to handle than MBR. Or is this because it needs to be > implemented in a Windows compatible way? If so what did they change > there to make implementing GPT such a "problem"? Actually, you've to make all the storage stack GPT aware. Which is doable ofc, but not immediate. Kernel though, is already GPT aware. > > Regards, > Sven > > > ___ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev -- Pierre Schweitzer System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
