[ros-dev] Installer

[Reuben Perelman]

Jonathan Andrews wrote:

>Hello to the group.... my first post....
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>I noticed some talk about the Reactos installer following the windows
>form. As a long time NT admin who moved into product development on
>Linux I would just like to point out how mediocre the windows installer
>is.
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>With a bootable linux ISO you get a full network stack, functional USB
>support, detected UDMA IDE drivers, Vesfa FB X11 etc etc etc... with the
>windows installer you get a kernel, a few utils and a pretty inflexable
>installer. 
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>Would it not make more sense to write an installer thats based on a
>bootable Linux image - if nothing else the use of networking offers a
>host of possibilities (diskless installs, updates from the internet
>during the install phase and so on).
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The end goal should be to write stuff like networking into reactos 
itself. (In fact it is in there right now, just nothing to make it easy 
to use.)

>Is the aim to clone windows, or to produce an operating system that is
>API compatible with win32 ? They are very different aims with very
>different requirements!
>
>Jon
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