I'm thinking of trying to install it on a campact flash with a ide interface.. Wondering how small it can be. So, I can get away with a 1 Gig CF.. A second hard drive would be for data / applications. USB would be nice way to have the 'real' paritions.. In general, in windows, I like to have differe...

Is there a minimum hardware requirements posted somewhere?

I did not see a list in the FAQ.

My question is, what is the minimum size hard disk partition to install ROS on real hardware?

XP requires a minimum disk of 4 Gig.

Is reactos the same?

thanks

In reference to this page: http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/dev_legalreview.html Paragraph eight: VIII. DEVELOPMENT KITS specifically the sentenance: "ReactOS requires the use of several third-party software development kits for its development." Is this necessarily true? Would it be more accurate to...

so I guess what I'm really saying is...

Someone in IBM needs to step up to the plate and donate some
dual core G5 PowerPCs to the dev team!

And someone at AMD needs to do the same with some dual core Athlon64 systems!

Why? Not because I own one, because I dont. Not becasue its the fastest hardware out there, because it is not. (anymore) The stated goal of ROS is to be binary compatible with Windows. Jump into the WAYBACK machine, circa 1994, when DEC (pre-Compaq assimilation) gave a DEC Alpha to Linus in order to...

what stack and api monitoring / tracing tools useful ?

with the recent news and activities... and looking at the terms defined here: http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/dev_legalreview.html I think a few new terms should be added to the Helpful Definitions section. Reverse Engineering Acceptable Reverse Engineering Practice Un-Acceptable Reverse Engineering...

Is fuzz testing an allowed form of reverse engineering?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing

stick a dll in a test harness, subject it to a barage of data and map out the functional results...

can do.

Where does the PCBIOS.BIN and VGABIOS.BIN files come from?

I found this.. not sure if its the same..?
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pcbios

the wiki needs a bit of an update...

here's the correct syntax for booting off a iso image.

qemu -cdrom ReactOS-LiveCD.iso -boot d -m 64 -L . ReactOS-LiveCD.iso -user-net

also, the download uses a hard drive image which has a different command line structure for qemu.

I'm trying the LiveCD images (both) with the provided distro of qemu on XP. I get the following set of messages, each as its own popup window. Any ideas on what it means? I tried both iso images on my gentoo box and just got a message about not being able to load.... is there a way to pipe the error...

PPPoE authentication ?

from the previous parts of this post...

I have Firefox (1.0.7) on Linux (gentoo)

The web page looks ok...
I cant read scandinavian, but the page looks like something to do with Steel Form Windows?
...As in a building construction, not a computer.

My content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

When ever I create a new XP system, I always have a partition of applications available for quick install. (the partition only has applications that I install, no data, no OS) One of the applications is Adaptec's ASPI drivers http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.jsp?cat=/Product/ASP...

For those interested in OpenGL for games...

you might want to check out Ogre3D library.

http://www.ogre3d.org

Its cross platform. On Windows supports both
DirectX and OpenGL acceleration of 3D rendering.