Re: [ros-dev] Merging liveCD and Install CD

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Green
O also.if you actually have a look at http://iso.reactos.org/ livecd(no cab) vs bootcd(cab) size you will notice the livecd is smaller. This is due to 7z compression. So i don't think this should be an issue. It will only be bigger in size when as a plain iso file though. Though of course includin

Re: [ros-dev] Merging liveCD and Install CD

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew Green
There are a few things I want to change. The textmode installer uses windows dll's that are identical to the livecd ones. Though they are stored in different locations for example ntoskrnl.exe is in reactos on bootcd and reactos/system32 on livecd. Also currently the textmode installer just replace

Re: [ros-dev] Merging liveCD and Install CD

2011-03-28 Thread Colin Finck
Andrew Green wrote: I was wondering what peoples preferred methods would be. Put the files to be installed into a single CAB file (ReactOS style), multiple CAB files (NT5 style) or some other container (NT6 style), but don't just use the system files the Live-CD needs to run. ROS shall be ins

Re: [ros-dev] Merging liveCD and Install CD

2011-03-28 Thread Olaf Siejka
The most obvious impact i see is that iso.reactos.org will be able to hold less revisions. Same thing with storage for my Windows-based builds. 2011/3/28 Andrew Green > I have been thinking about what will be needed for my gsoc proposal. > > Merging the live cd and install cd of React OS is one

[ros-dev] Merging liveCD and Install CD

2011-03-27 Thread Andrew Green
I have been thinking about what will be needed for my gsoc proposal. Merging the live cd and install cd of React OS is one of the goals. Though the file structure is different on the install and live cd. The install cd has all the React OS files in a cab file. While live cd has everything in a fo