[ros-general] Installing ReactOS with other OSes

[Robert Köpferl]

You can use the zip-distribution or even compile it yourself.
ROS then ends up in C:\Reactos

It's then possible to boot ROS by choosing Win98's "Just Commandline without 
anything"
makin Cd reactos
and start it via  boot.bat

Rakhesh Sasidharan schrieb:

> Hi all!
> 
> Am thinking of trying out ReactOS on my home machine, but thought I'd
> clarify a few things before going ahead. 
> 
> My current setup is this: I have a primary master disk, on which I have
> Windows 98 (primary partition), FreeBSD (primary partition), Windows XP
> and Linux (logical partitions). I use GRUB as my bootloader. I have a
> secondary master disk, on which I plan to install FreeDOS (primary
> partition), and ReactOS (primary partition). I checked up with the
> FreeDOS folks and it seems installing FreeDOS into my existing setup is
> a no problem -- FreeDOS would need its equivalent of config.sys and
> autoexec.bat to be present on my C: (which is the Windows 98 partition),
> and other than that there should be no hassles (FreeDOS will install its
> bootsector on its partition only, and I can get GRUB to load it from
> there).
> 
>>From the installation pages of ReactOS, I figure that if I were to
> install ReactOS into my current setup, it would add itself to the
> Windows XP boot manager. Coz my Windows 98 partition is currently
> active, and that's where the XP boot manager is installed, and that's
> where the ntldr and boot.ini files are located. Righto? 
> 
> But suppose I don't want to boot ReactOS through the XP boot manager,
> can I do the following: make the ReactOS partition as active beforehand,
> and so when ReactOS installs itself it will find that the active
> partition has no boot manager or files etc and so will install the
> bootsectors to this partition ... and then I can use GRUB to load these
> bootsectors to boot into ReactOS? Is this possible? ReactOS wont
> overwrite my MBR (GRUB) or XP boot manager etc in this case right? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Rakhesh
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