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
If East Asian people were unable
to see the Latin characters, it
becomes a barrier to mutual
understanding.
FontLink will break that barrier.
JIRA issue: CORE-9616
JIRA issue: CORE-15480
- Modify font substitutes.
- Unify the lock variables.
- Add FONTLINK and
FONTLINK_CHAIN structures.
- Add FontLink_Create and
FontLink_Destroy functions.
- Add FontLink_Chain_Init,
FontLink_Chain_Free,
FontLink_Chain_LoadReg,
FontLink_Chain_Populate, and
FontLink_Chain_FindGlyph
functions.
- Implement FontLink.
- Add font file DroidSansFallback.ttf
for LiveCD.
Purpose:
When doing a PXE BootCD installation, you may be left without networking, usb and a cd drive.
This adds an easy way to include a few or more files to the installation which are then present on the disk after the installation and which does not require any change to ReactOS source code/build script files (and no manual editing of boot/bootdata/packages/reactos.dff.in).
Proposed changes:
Adds a new modules/3rdparty folder which lets the files end up in C:\ReactOS\3rdParty ready for use.
Hermès Bélusca-Maïto