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Hermès Bélusca-Maïto
b2e33f26eb [REACTOS] Merge our bootcd and livecd into an all-in-one ReactOS BootCD (#7313)
CORE-9069, CORE-13525, RELEASE-11

This new BootCD contains the functionality of both the original bootcd
(text-mode 1st-stage installer) and the livecd (that will include the
1st-stage GUI installer later).
Our separate livecd ISOs become obsolete, and this completely removes
the need for the so-called "hybridcd" ISO.

Some details:

- The "hybridcd" build target is completely removed, since now the new
  BootCD *is* basically what we used to call "hybridcd".

- The "livecd" build target is kept so far (to minimize the code changes),
  but internally I start to refer to it as "LiveImage", and is reduced
  to a minimum.

  A minimal non-bootable "liveimg.iso" is built (but currently not
  included within the BootCD). Its purpose will be to implement the
  "ReactOS Live" functionality as a RAMDISK.
  (We currently don't support other file formats apart from ISO and
  flat disk for a RAMDISK).

  The "ReactOS Live" (non-RAMDISK) is implemented by adding to the
  BootCD file tree the files from the LiveImage.
  These files add two root directories, "Profiles" and "reactos"
  (which is the SystemRoot for the non-ramdisk LiveImage).

- The minimal text-mode ReactOS installation used for the 1st-stage
  installer, including USETUP itself, and the executable for the
  1st-stage GUI installer and the reactos.cab (installation source),
  are moved to the root directory called "i386" (ideally, one directory
  per architecture).

- The "bootcdregtest" target, i.e. the ISOs we feed our testbots with,
  are left untouched, i.e. they are only constituted of the 1st-stage
  text-mode installation only, but placed in a per-architecture root
  directory ("i386", etc. as for the bootcd).

- Remove the ACPI APIC/SMP entries from bootcd.ini. They will be made
  available via the Advanced Boot Options F8 menu in Debug builds, for
  testing purposes only, in a subsequent commit.

This commit is based upon an older SVN one:
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75273
2026-04-28 23:11:10 +02:00
Mark Jansen
a0e32d4f48 [USERINIT] Add unattend.inf functionality to livecd 2020-05-05 20:54:30 +02:00
Hermès Bélusca-Maïto
acdf04bad2 Add .keep guard files in order to restore lost but empty directories we had with SVN.
Note that when you start populating these directories, you can remove the associated .keep guard file(s)!
2017-10-04 10:28:36 +02:00