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====== ReactOS Attempt ====== | ====== ReactOS Attempt ====== | ||
- | I recently just learned of [[https:// | + | I recently just learned of [[https:// |
**TLDR:** | **TLDR:** | ||
<WRAP center 90%> | <WRAP center 90%> | ||
- | Winlink loads but I can't seem to be able to even configure it properly. Here's what I've done so far and where it fails. | + | Winlink loads but I can't seem to be able to configure it. Here's what I've done so far and where it fails. |
</ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
===== Download ReactOS ===== | ===== Download ReactOS ===== | ||
- | * First step: I downloaded | + | * First step: Downloaded |
===== Virtualbox ===== | ===== Virtualbox ===== | ||
- | * I used Virtualbox 6.1 under LinuxMint 20 XFCE. | + | I used Virtualbox 6.1 under LinuxMint 20 XFCE. |
- | * I created | + | |
- | * | + | * Create |
+ | * Name it " | ||
+ | * I doubled the RAM to 1024MB \\ {{: | ||
+ | * To load the " | ||
+ | * Select " | ||
+ | * Navigate to the file '' | ||
+ | * Back to the first screen, you can now start the machine. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Install ReactOS ===== | ||
+ | * The install screen will start and you simply press '' | ||
+ | * In fact, you'll have to press '' | ||
+ | * ReactOS will show a bunch more screens, simply follow the prompts. | ||
+ | * That looks promising! | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Install Firefox ===== | ||
+ | Now that ReactOS is installed, we're ready to install some programs. | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Click on the Applications Manager: \\ {{: | ||
+ | * Search for '' | ||
+ | * Once Firefox is installed, do **not** let it update; that broke it for me. | ||
+ | * Up to this point, everything works fine, but we're about to break things so before we continue, let's create a clone of the Virtualbox install... \\ {{: | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Attempt #1 ===== | ||
+ | * The first thing I tried was to install [[https:// | ||
+ | * It installed but wouldn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Attempt #2 ===== | ||
+ | This [[http:// | ||
+ | - [[https:// | ||
+ | - " | ||
+ | - " | ||
+ | - “Visual C++ 14.0” | ||
+ | |||
+ | I got stock at step 1... | ||
+ | * At first, it looked like it was gonna work: \\ {{: | ||
+ | * But then it seems it got stock downloading some components and after a while failed: | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Attempt #3 ===== | ||
+ | I deleted the machine and re-cloned the clone I made earlier. | ||
+ | * From the Applications Manager, I installed .NET version 2: \\ {{: | ||
+ | * and VB6: \\ {{: | ||
+ | * Installed Winlink again, and this time it loaded. | ||
+ | * But unfortunately, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Attempt #4 ===== | ||
+ | I tried the same thing as the previous attempt but with .NET version 2 SP2. Same result. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Attempt #5 ===== | ||
+ | I tried the same thing as the previous attempt but with .NET version 4 and Winlink wouldn' | ||
+ | ===== Attempt #6 ===== | ||
+ | I tried the same thing as all the previous attempts with the [[https:// | ||
+ | ===== To Be Continued... ===== | ||
+ | ... maybe. |
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