2 Oct
2004
2 Oct
'04
7:07 p.m.
Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
Robert Köpferl wrote:
The only formula offered to me (for starting ReactOS) has been shot
down, even though I did not understand it completely anyway. It soundes
like Robert was saying that I need to boot with a DOS disk, be it M$
(Micro-expensive-$oft) or freeDOS, before I can run ReactOS.
Thomas says (regarding the only way offered to me) that it is very bad
and may cause various problems, but does not offer an alternative. What
kinds of problems? What alternatives are there? My original question
was to request the location of a HOWTO.
I would like to see this OS in action. Further, I would like to try to
run some DOS and Windows programs, just to find out where ReactOS is,
and how far it has left to go. Screenshots are o.k., but I would like
to play with it and see what I can (and cannot) do.
The bin -taste will be dropped some time. But
it is still usable. It's intended to be startet from a naked DOS in
realMode.
Thus you need at least a FAT16/32 partition to extract that and a
DOS-Disk. It
should work with freedos.org, too.
Boot it,
cd reactos (whrere you extracted)
run boot.bat
That's very bad, boot.bat and friends are depreciated as they may
cause various problems - hope someone will remove these files from the
repository soon.
Regards
Thomas