>That sounds like either modifying the installation CD, or getting a DOS bootdisk with >driverfiles and using that after phase 1 (partitioning, formatting, copying, >writing MBR/bootsector, rebooting) but before ReactOS installation starts >from harddisk, to copy files to proper location.
I admit using Reactos.dff to push whole driver packages to bootcd. >Thanks for the heads-up regarding file location, and .inf processing. >The 2nd note near bottom of [ ... ] confused me for that. That note is still valid, but only for simpler one, like storage and network drivers. Network drivers especially do come in a package with single INF file, which is picking drivers for specific OS version/arch. >No idea if that counts like a regressing as VMware video driver >used to work fine in older VMware software releases combined >with older ReactOS versions. Nope. It just was loaded successfuly. The only driver i know to work, is Vbox Video driver. A simple test: install the driver of your liking (be it the old vmware driver or any real-hardware driver) and then delete the ros-specific driver files (vbemp.sys/framebuf.dll or vgamp.sys/vgaddi.dll), Usually you need only to delete the pair for the video driver you picked at ROS 1st stage of install (VBE or VGA). ReactOS will crash at startup after a reboot. It happens not only with QEMU (and its Cirrus driver) but also in real hardware (Nvidia TnT 32, ATI Rage, Matrox G400 and few more i managed to install in ROS). >Simply copying the svga.sys over vbemp.sys and >vgamp.sys wasn't succesfull, nice black screen. Yes, overwriting the default driver gives the same result as deleting it. Regards
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