[ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article

[Pierre Schweitzer]

On 08/11/2014 07:14, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> Dear Thomas,
> 
>>> I really would like something readable and writable, like USB stick, as opposed to live CD.
> 
>> There's no easy way to do so.
>> Even if you'd copy contents of the LiveCD to an USB drive, it wouldn't
>> be writable, the CDFS driver we use is also read-only.
> 
> 
>> Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
> 
> My idea was to build and use the ROSBE on FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux to build the trunk, then install to a USB stick formatted FAT32.
> 
> Question is whether that could boot.

In theory, it could. In practice, I'm not that sure, you're really
dependent on USB. And I'm not sure it's in a that good shape,
unfortunately...

> 
> Linux, the BSDs and Haiku can be installed on a USB stick, but I believe MS-Windows can't.
> 
> I thought of buying a cheap refurbished SATA hard disk, maybe 80 or 160 GB, and using that to install ReactOS, FreeDOS and possibly something else (OpenBSD?), but ReactOS and FreeDOS have the limitation of having to be the first FAT16 or FAT32 partition on the disk, has to be drive C:
> 
> I might set up to boot with Syslinux.
> 
> Tom
> 
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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

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