Can't get to First Base with LiveCD
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 6:07 pm
Hi, I'm new here, just having found out about ReactOS a short while ago. I'm an OS2 user from way back and ran OS2 machines for years until it just finally went away. I've been an unwilling participant under the MS Hegemony ever since, and would love to get out from underneath it. I've tried Linux, and it's cool and all, but a few programs that I have to have won't run under it. So I'm kinda stuck.
Anyway, I d/l'd the LiveCD file from the ReactOS website just a few minutes ago, so whatever version it is is the version that's available for download right now. I burned it to disk, but I'm getting an error message when it tries to run:
D:\ is not a valid Win32 Application
D: is the drive letter for my CD drive. This is a 64-bit machine also. Is that a problem?
Any advice on how I can get unstuck from this, and I'd appreciate it.
Also, if I decide to install ReactOS, I have about 45 GB of room on one of my partitions that I was planning to use for it. Can I install it to that partition, or do I have to make a new one for that hunk of drive space in order to install ReactOS?
How about a dual-boot situation? Is this something that gets set up as part of the install so I can continue to use Win7?
Do you need info about my computer? It's an older, but still very capable machine. I built it. It has an ASRock motherboard, a Quad core AMD processor running at 3.2GHz, 8 Gigs of Ram. A couple of Terrabytes of drive space.
And once I get it running, I guess I'll need to reinstall my apps into ReactOS, right?
Anyway, I d/l'd the LiveCD file from the ReactOS website just a few minutes ago, so whatever version it is is the version that's available for download right now. I burned it to disk, but I'm getting an error message when it tries to run:
D:\ is not a valid Win32 Application
D: is the drive letter for my CD drive. This is a 64-bit machine also. Is that a problem?
Any advice on how I can get unstuck from this, and I'd appreciate it.
Also, if I decide to install ReactOS, I have about 45 GB of room on one of my partitions that I was planning to use for it. Can I install it to that partition, or do I have to make a new one for that hunk of drive space in order to install ReactOS?
How about a dual-boot situation? Is this something that gets set up as part of the install so I can continue to use Win7?
Do you need info about my computer? It's an older, but still very capable machine. I built it. It has an ASRock motherboard, a Quad core AMD processor running at 3.2GHz, 8 Gigs of Ram. A couple of Terrabytes of drive space.
And once I get it running, I guess I'll need to reinstall my apps into ReactOS, right?