[ros-general] Preliminary questions before install

[waltdnes at waltdnes.org]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:33:07AM +0100, Thomas Faber wrote

> I usually reserve the first partition on the disk for ROS (since
> it may or may not have problems running from elsewhere).  I tend to
> partition the disk to the layout I want first (e.g. 10 GB for ROS,
> 10 GB for Some-Other-OS, rest of the disk for whatever I consider the
> "main" OS), then install ROS and tell it to install its loader in
> both MBR & VBR. Then I install any other OSes and overwrite the MBR
> with my preference (typically NTLDR for me, but Grub should be fine)
> and add an option to boot ROS from there. Then when (not if :p) I
> need to reinstall ROS I make sure it doesn't touch the MBR again.
> If your partitioning requirements aren't too complicated you can
> also let ROS setup do your partitioning to avoid the extra first step.

  Thanks.  This may sound repetitive, but I want to clarify.  Is the
ReactOS bootloader able to load another OS?  I'm thinking of also
putting Minix 3.3 on the machine for testing.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>