[ros-dev] Installing and running ReactOS on modern hardware

[Thomas Mueller]

I would like to build and install ReactOS from source but may be strapped for where to install it.

I have USB sticks, 3 TB SATA hard drives, and 3 TB USB 3.0 hard drive.

Hard drives are GPT-partitioned, which ReactOS apparently doesn't support.

I have some old IDE hard drives which I access with USB 2.0 enclosure: 1271 MB and 40 GB.

I also have an old 341 MB IDE hard drive that I can't read through USB 2.0 enclosure.

I could compile from Linux or FreeBSD with ROSBE, could do further builds that way or with Wine and MinGW under Linux or FreeBSD.

I don't want to do heavy compiling on USB stick if I can avoid it.

I believe the only file system ReactOS currently supports is FAT16 or FAT32, which limits possible partition size compared to NTFS or Linux or BSD file systems.

Can I install to USB stick, 4GB or 8 GB, and are there any other possibilities with my hardware?
        

Tom