Re: [ros-kernel]CDROM bootsector

[Eric K. <ek...@rz...>]

"Daniel Gryniewicz" <da...@fp...> wrote:

> Well, there's always the fact that, once you've booted the CD, you
generally
> need to be able to access it to install or whatever.  For that, you need
an
> ISO driver.  Many up and coming OSs don't have ISO drivers (reactos among
them
> for now) so they, in the early stages, use Linux on their bootable CDs to
> install.  All that takes is writing a driver for their prefered FS if
Linux
> does not already have one.

IMO there is no reason to use Linux to install ReactOS because a ISO-9660
file system driver (cdfs.sys) is currently under construction.


Eric Kohl