[ros-dev] 1st stage gui installer partition manipulation

[Eric Kohl]

Hello Andrew!

AFAICS, the page you mentioned below discusses the creation of file 
systems and how to check them. It does not discuss the creation of 
partitions.

Regards,
Eric


Andrew Green wrote:
> I have stumbled across this documentation
> http://doc.sch130.nsc.ru/www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/fmifs.shtml.
> 
> What it contains discusses how partitions are created. The very cool
> thing is that by using FMIFS in the installer means that you can
> delete,create and resize all the partitions that the disk manager
> supports. This means it will make it a lot easier to add support to
> both without duplicating efforts.(windows vista+ has resizing xp
> doesn't seem to though)
> 
> The current text installer doesn't use this as this part of reactos
> code is incomplete.
> 
> I would like to add this to my gsoc proposal. Though I know I'm
> probably not going to get a place it may help me if I get a chance to
> do it in the future or maybe this could give ideas to someone else who
> tries.
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
> 
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