I tried installing some old CD software, which was my main reason for using ReactOS at all. So, basically, once the network is working, you are away. None of the browsers seem really current, but there are a few to choose from, plus other important tools like LibreOffice (again, not quite current version), media tools and so on. It’s not a unified set of packages, really, but it works well for getting started. Now, ReactOS has an applications manager that will find and download installers for you. Checked the box about finding the driver locally (not automatically) and then browsed to the FreeDOS drive (D:) and the folder with the INF and other driver files.Clicked on it and went to Update Driver.Found the NIC in the list of unrecognised devices.Rebooted into ReactOS and opened Device Manager.(All files fitted into the 8.3 DOS file name limit, or I would have unzipped in ReactOS.) Downloaded the file but and unzipped it into a temporary folder. Booted into FreeDOS, ran links -g and followed the link on the ReactOS hardware page.There is a download link for a driver for my NIC.
DOWNLOAD REACTOS DRIVERS
The ReactOS website is pretty handy for drivers - see this page. It can be handy for exactly this kind of thing. Note: I strongly recommend installing ReactOS alongside a second operating system, probably a Linux would be best.
DOWNLOAD REACTOS INSTALL
The FreeDOS install media includes a packet driver for the Intel PRO/100+ NIC on the E500, so I could get online from FreeDOS but not ReactOS! Because ReactOS mounted the FreeDOS partition as D:, I booted into FreeDOS, set up the network and used Lynx (or Links or Dillo) to download any drivers I needed, and then when I booted ReactOS I just copied them off the FreeDOS partition. Once that was done, I could boot into ReactOS. This meant I could not boot ReactOS, but that’s OK, because I then did an install of SliTaz to set up GRUB2 to boot ReactOS, FreeDOS and SliTaz. Installed the bootloader to the partition not the MBR. I used a SliTaz live disc to set up the partition structure and then booted from the ReactOS CD and stepped through, choosing the correct partition and doing a full format of the C. Installed on a 30 GB partition (sda2 in Linux-speak) on a Compaq E500 (Pentium III, 384 MB RAM, dates from around 2002 or something.)
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