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

[Thomas Mueller]

>> 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...


> Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>

I believe FreeDOS can boot from USB if the BIOS supports USB, but then I suppose ReactOS, like other non-DOS OSes, does not use the BIOS beyond finding the initial boot code.

New developments make ReactOS more interesting, and I might like to test some MS-Windows hardware drivers.

I could try to install ReactOS onto a USB stick but might wait until later for improvements in USB support.

I must remember that ReactOS 0.3.15 iso burned to CD failed to boot on my computers.

If I subsequently want to build application software for ReactOS, I suppose I could use Wine under Linux or FreeBSD.

Regarding lack of support for GPT in ReactOS, OpenBSD also fails to support GPT.

Tom