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REACTOS LIVE CD INSTALL

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.

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.

REACTOS LIVE CD 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.)