from Minas Abrahamyan: > This misfunctionality has 2 pieces: Reactos unable to start kernel from > extended partition, and the installer inability to handle extended > partitions
> 1 MS NT+ supports installing onto the extended partition for ages, > including, yes, Windows 7 > So this is requirement if only speaking from formal point of view > 2 This feature is extreamely useful for any Windows user-- especially for > ones with busy all primary partitions: 2 backup partitions, one C: and one > just anything other, Linux or OsX - and you very need extended partition to > keep Reactos > 3 This feature is extreamely needed for just any real-life (==real > hardware) Reactos tester and developer: see p.2 Plus starting from extended > partition will allow to have multiple copies of reactos installations, > which is bread and water for testers. > The fact this feature is absent just shows where real-life usage by testers > of Ros is: just nowhere. Having hard disks partitioned GPT prevents me from even testing ReactOS. But if ReactOS could be installed to a GPT partition, there is the risk that it could run awry and mess the disk including other OS installations. It would be good if ReactOS could be installed to USB stick, better still if ReactOS could be built and installed to a USB stick straight from the build system. FreeBSD and NetBSD have this capability. There might be a lower risk to the rest of the system from ReactOS on a USB stick than on a hard disk, especially if ReactOS has immature GPT support. Conceivably I could order a low-price refurbished small SATA hard disk, install in a Sabrent USB 2.0 and eSATA enclosure, but using eSATA, and use that for ReactOS, FreeDOS and possibly OpenBSD too. Then I would need a boot loader that would trick FreeDOS and ReactOS, whichever was being booted, that its partition was the first on the disk, even if it was the second. Tom _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
