Linked by Jeff Rollin on Thu 31st Aug 2006 18:44 UTC
I downloaded a few VMware images for use in VMware player.
The mouse (a PS/2 type) did not work either in ReactOS or in Syllable,
but did work in PC-BSD (all in VMware Player). Later, I downloaded the install-cd iso of ReactOS and burned it to
a CD. The image is a tiny download (19MB uncompressed), so it didn't
take long. I intended to install ReactOS on a laptop and desktop.
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2006-01-16
They have a boot loader, its called freeloader but they decided not to install it by default since they considered it rude to nuke your MBR when you are only installing an Alpha OS to test it. Seriously would you try to use it as your main OS now? Do you want to fix your MBR every time you try the new version?
About GRUB, I don't think using it instead of freeloader is all that good of an idea. First you can forget about GRUB on an NTFS partition and NTFS support is a must. Second I don't think the ReactOS kernel is multiboot compliant (neither is NT, XP, 2003 Server or Vista as far as I know) so you would still have to chainload ReactOS. So you see GRUB is the wrong tool for this job.
You shouldn't nitpick too much about the installer in an Alpha OS and there are some extra concerns about the installer that Windows has that Linux doesn't. Windows can't go into graphical mode before the GDI isn't installed and working. That's why you get the graphical part after everything was installed but not yet setup. I think it has something to do with what MS did to the GDI for NT 4 (it was in user space before just like X) but am not sure. If that is true we should see a graphical installer with Vista (since they took GDI back out of the kernel) and ReactOS (since they never bastardized their GDI) sometime in the future.