[ros-general] Installing ReactOS with other OSes

[Wesley Parish]

I've just bought a second-hand PC to test ReactOS on - together with Win98 - and
intend hooking it up to the local Win98 network.  Does anyone have any comments
on the maturity of the Samba NG code?  Any advice?  And how does it connect with
ReactOS Explorer?  Via a Network Neighbourhood clone?

I suppose I can generate bug reports at the very least.

Wesley Parish

Quoting Rakhesh Sasidharan <lists at rakhesh.com>:

> Hi all!
> 
> Am thinking of trying out ReactOS on my home machine, but thought I'd
> clarify a few things before going ahead. 
> 
> My current setup is this: I have a primary master disk, on which I have
> Windows 98 (primary partition), FreeBSD (primary partition), Windows XP
> and Linux (logical partitions). I use GRUB as my bootloader. I have a
> secondary master disk, on which I plan to install FreeDOS (primary
> partition), and ReactOS (primary partition). I checked up with the
> FreeDOS folks and it seems installing FreeDOS into my existing setup is
> a no problem -- FreeDOS would need its equivalent of config.sys and
> autoexec.bat to be present on my C: (which is the Windows 98
> partition),
> and other than that there should be no hassles (FreeDOS will install
> its
> bootsector on its partition only, and I can get GRUB to load it from
> there).
> 
> >From the installation pages of ReactOS, I figure that if I were to
> install ReactOS into my current setup, it would add itself to the
> Windows XP boot manager. Coz my Windows 98 partition is currently
> active, and that's where the XP boot manager is installed, and that's
> where the ntldr and boot.ini files are located. Righto? 
> 
> But suppose I don't want to boot ReactOS through the XP boot manager,
> can I do the following: make the ReactOS partition as active
> beforehand,
> and so when ReactOS installs itself it will find that the active
> partition has no boot manager or files etc and so will install the
> bootsectors to this partition ... and then I can use GRUB to load these
> bootsectors to boot into ReactOS? Is this possible? ReactOS wont
> overwrite my MBR (GRUB) or XP boot manager etc in this case right? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Rakhesh
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