[ros-dev] Installing ReactOS to a folder

[João Jerónimo]

On 02-01-2015 01:01, Minas Abrahamyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just by copying files with folders wouldn't make it normal ReactOS 
> installation,
> you also need create boot sector(s) OK by filling it, the problem is 
> we do not have proper tools for it. I.e. tool just like 
> sys.exe/sys.com <http://sys.com> utility was in DOS/Windows 9x or 
> fixmbr.exe utility is for Windows 2000+ or  "bootrec /fixmbr" for 
> WinVista+.

I had already installed ReactOS this way, when the "make install" 
command existed. That command wasn't able to store the boot sectors 
and/or MBR in the disk, and by the way, the install directory didn't 
have to be in the root of a partition either, it could be inside my home 
folder or anywhere you could imagine. The "make install" command just 
copied the relevant files to that folder (the ones that in a normal 
instalation should be inside the ReactOS folder), in apropriate 
subdirectories.
At the time, FreeLDR could be loaded as a multiboot kernel, and I just 
configured Grub to boot the .sys file.
It is even less fragile than the "normal" instalation.

JJ

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