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

[Eric Kohl]

"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. It froze on all of my four
machines when I tried it the last time. The setup loader handles floppy
disks properly. It boots from a floppy disk, loads all required files and
starts ntoskrnl. Ntoskrnl, or the floppy driver, freezes when it tries to
load the first boot start driver from the floppy disk.

2) We don't build floppy image files yet. This means, you will have to
prepare the floppy disks manually.

3) The setup loader (setupldr.sys) and setup utility (usetup.exe) are not
yet able to handle multiple install media.

These are the known issues we will have to fix before ReactOS can be booted
and installed from floppy disks.


Regards,
Eric Kohl