Curtis Spivey wrote
I'm new to the list. But have great interest in this OS. Has someone started a list of compatible software that can run under ReactOS?
It's difficult to keep a list as working software comes and goes as new features are added and bugs are introduced, identified and fixed. Most basic software runs though, and even more complex software like OpenOffice.Org.
Your best bet is to try it out.
I've been trying to get PCStudy Bible to run under Wine and with Codeweaver and it's a no-go. And Tax time is right around the corner, so I'm thinking about TurboTax. I'm currently running SuSE 9.3
As a general rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely won't run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything works.
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As a general rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely won't run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything works.
That's too bad. I haven't used Windoze for several months now. I hoped to never use it again. I do really miss my Bible software. I hate to throw $500 out the window. I've used Bibletime, but it's just not the quality application that I'm looking for. I have windows ME installed on a partition but I have been unable to get it to boot.
-- Curtis Nampa, Idaho http://pcs.freepay.com/?r=24984191
If you still have the Windows ME install CD, or if it came with your computer the recovory CD, then you can install Windows ME in something like VMware ($200) or QEMU (free) and use your windows desktop directly from linux.
Curtis Spivey wrote:
As a general rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely won't run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything works.
That's too bad. I haven't used Windoze for several months now. I hoped to never use it again. I do really miss my Bible software. I hate to throw $500 out the window. I've used Bibletime, but it's just not the quality application that I'm looking for. I have windows ME installed on a partition but I have been unable to get it to boot.
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Or VMWare Player :) (free)
On 12/6/05, Nate DeSimone desimn@rpi.edu wrote:
If you still have the Windows ME install CD, or if it came with your computer the recovory CD, then you can install Windows ME in something like VMware ($200) or QEMU (free) and use your windows desktop directly from linux.
Curtis Spivey wrote:
As a general rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely
won't
run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything works.
That's too bad. I haven't used Windoze for several months now. I hoped to never use it again. I do really miss my Bible software. I hate to throw $500 out the window. I've used Bibletime, but it's just not the quality application that I'm looking for. I have windows ME installed on a partition but I have been unable to get it to boot.
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I tried that, but I just can't get it to boot. Even with Vmware. Actually all I have is the Windows ME upgrade CD. And it doesn't boot from the CD. And for some odd reason I can't get my floppy drive to boot or I'd reinstall it.
On 12/6/05, Nate DeSimone desimn@rpi.edu wrote:
If you still have the Windows ME install CD, or if it came with your computer the recovory CD, then you can install Windows ME in something like VMware ($200) or QEMU (free) and use your windows desktop directly from linux.
Curtis Spivey wrote:
As a general rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely won't run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything works.
That's too bad. I haven't used Windoze for several months now. I hoped to never use it again. I do really miss my Bible software. I hate to throw $500 out the window. I've used Bibletime, but it's just not the quality application that I'm looking for. I have windows ME installed on a partition but I have been unable to get it to boot.
-- Curtis Nampa, Idaho http://pcs.freepay.com/?r=24984191
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-- Curtis Nampa, Idaho http://pcs.freepay.com/?r=24984191
Take a DOS boot floppy image and copy your Windows ME cd to a cd with the DOS floppy image setup as a boot cd. Or use a DOS boot cd like freedos to boot and then install.
Curtis Spivey wrote:
I tried that, but I just can't get it to boot. Even with Vmware. Actually all I have is the Windows ME upgrade CD. And it doesn't boot from the CD. And for some odd reason I can't get my floppy drive to boot or I'd reinstall it.
On 12/6/05, Nate DeSimone desimn@rpi.edu wrote:
If you still have the Windows ME install CD, or if it came with your computer the recovory CD, then you can install Windows ME in something like VMware ($200) or QEMU (free) and use your windows desktop directly from linux.
Curtis Spivey wrote:
As a general rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely won't run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything works.
That's too bad. I haven't used Windoze for several months now. I hoped to never use it again. I do really miss my Bible software. I hate to throw $500 out the window. I've used Bibletime, but it's just not the quality application that I'm looking for. I have windows ME installed on a partition but I have been unable to get it to boot.
-- Curtis Nampa, Idaho http://pcs.freepay.com/?r=24984191
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On 12/6/05, Nate DeSimone desimn@rpi.edu wrote:
Take a DOS boot floppy image and copy your Windows ME cd to a cd with the DOS floppy image setup as a boot cd. Or use a DOS boot cd like freedos to boot and then install.
I went to Freedos and downloaded the file but I have no idea how to get the image into an iso form that I can burn to a CDR. I've read all the documentation. And I'm at a loss.
-- Curtis Nampa, Idaho http://pcs.freepay.com/?r=24984191
Curtis Spivey schreef:
On 12/6/05, Nate DeSimone desimn@rpi.edu wrote:
I went to Freedos and downloaded the file but I have no idea how to get the image into an iso form that I can burn to a CDR. I've read all the documentation. And I'm at a loss.
www.bootdisk.com has bootdisks for WinME. FreeDOS has *.img bootdisk files (use WinImage for example, or DD) and ISO files, which can be written as a CD using any cd writer program (cdrecord, Nero, K3b etc..)
Bernd
On 12/6/05, Bernd Blaauw bblaauw@home.nl wrote:
Curtis Spivey schreef:
On 12/6/05, Nate DeSimone desimn@rpi.edu wrote:
I went to Freedos and downloaded the file but I have no idea how to get the image into an iso form that I can burn to a CDR. I've read all the documentation. And I'm at a loss.
www.bootdisk.com has bootdisks for WinME. FreeDOS has *.img bootdisk files (use WinImage for example, or DD) and ISO files, which can be written as a CD using any cd writer program (cdrecord, Nero, K3b etc..)
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I would like to get an ISO image to write but I've yet to figure out how to get it into an image file to burn. I downloaded the FDOEMCD file from Freedos and tried to follow the instructions. But, I think the intructions are written to be run under a windows operating system. SuSe won't create the iso image with a "bat" file.
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Curtis Spivey wrote:
I would like to get an ISO image to write but I've yet to figure out how to get it into an image file to burn. I downloaded the FDOEMCD file from Freedos and tried to follow the instructions. But, I think the intructions are written to be run under a windows operating system. SuSe won't create the iso image with a "bat" file.
If FDOEMCD is a floppy image, use:
dd if=/path/to/downloaded/file/FDOEMCD of=/dev/fd0
Curtis Spivey wrote:
I tried that, but I just can't get it to boot. Even with Vmware. Actually all I have is the Windows ME upgrade CD. And it doesn't boot from the CD. And for some odd reason I can't get my floppy drive to boot or I'd reinstall it.
If the floppy drive is working, try this in grub:
title Just boot from the damn floppy! hide (hd0,0) <--- This is so that wHinders won't try to view what's there hide (hd0,1) <--- This is so that wHinders won't try to view what's there hide (hd1,0) <--- This is so that I can install wHinders on the second partion map (hd0) (hd1) <--- What WAS hda becomes hde (hda & hde on MY system) map (hd1) (hd0) <--- What WAS hde becomes hda (may be different on yours) rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 boot
I don't know if "hide" needs to come before or after "map". If it needs to come after "map", I may have to switch (hd0,1) to (hd1,1). I don't know if the remapping affects grub's references. My guess is that it does not because then how would the second "map" know which hd1 to map to hd0? In other words, whether "hide" needs to come before or after "map", I think that the reference (hd1,0) does NOT need to change.
However, be warned that the installation of wHinders may overwrite grub's MBR (it did it to me when I did it). You may want to use "dd" to copy the MBR to another location. Then you can just use "dd" to copy it back later. You can use grub to set it back up, but it's a bit of a PITA.
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That's too bad. I haven't used Windoze for several months now. I hoped to never use it again. I do really miss my Bible software. I hate to throw $500 out the window. I've used Bibletime, but it's just
BibleQuote and BibleWorks have to work well!
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Curtis Spivey wrote:
As a general rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely won't run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything works.
That's too bad. I haven't used Windoze for several months now. I hoped to never use it again. I do really miss my Bible software. I hate to throw $500 out the window. I've used Bibletime, but it's just not the quality application that I'm looking for. I have windows ME installed on a partition but I have been unable to get it to boot.
Well M$ wHinders does not like to be second. Not one bit! If it is anywhere but the first primary partition, you will have to tell grub to hide the partitions that come before it. Assuming this is the first hard drive in your system, and that wHindersME is on the second partion, insert into /boot/grub/grub.conf a line that goes "hide (hd0,0)" before the lines that hand the booting off to wHindersME. Also, make the wHindersME partition the active boot partition. But be sure to unhide the hidden partitions during subsequent boots. If wHindersME is not on the first physical drive, it will be necessary to swap drives. You can do that physically, or just tell grub to do it. Here's an example of two of the entries in my grub.conf:
title M$ wHinders 95 (hde1) # if hde is the second physical HDD, it is hd1 in grub unhide (hd1,0) <--- This gets hidden by another boot map (hd0) (hd1) <--- These two lines tell grub to swap the map (hd1) (hd0) first two physical HD's in BIOS' report rootnoverify (hd1,0) <--- This is necessary to boot M$ wHinders chainloader +1 <--- This tells grub to read 1st sector (of hda2) boot <--- This tells grub, "OK, let her rip." title M$ wHinders 98 (hda2) hide (hd0,0) <--- This hides hda1 unhide (hd0,1) <--- This ensures that hda2 is UNhidden unhide (hd1,0) <--- This gets hidden by another boot unhide (hd2,0) <--- As does this rootnoverify (hd0,1) <--- This is necessary to boot M$ wHinders chainloader +1 <--- This tells grub to read 1st sector (of hda2) makeactive <--- This activates the boot flag of hda2 boot <--- This tells grub, "OK, let her rip."
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