[ros-kernel] Fwd: Run ReactOS from Floppy?

[Vizzini]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:04, Eric Kohl wrote:
> "Jason Filby" <jasonfilby at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I know at one stage ReactOS could be booted from floppy, using a file
> > compression driver I think, but installed from a floppy? Any
> > thoughts/ideas on this? I'm sure its technically possible, but might
> > be a bit of trouble.
> 
> Yes, that is possible but there are some known issues:
> 
> 1) Our floppy driver is not stable enough. 

FWIW, I noticed this too when I was trying to un-break slave DMA.  It
worked fine most of the time when I used vmware connected to a real
floppy drive, but it didn't react well when I used a disk image file.

I agree with Eric, I think the floppy driver needs a little TLC.

 -Vizzini