You may try the following steps: * Install ReactOS in the partition you have just created (Use VBR only for the bootloader location) * Copy the contents of the ReactOS bootsecor to a file, e.g. reactos.bin * Boot Vista and copy the bootsector file to the root directory of the drive on which the Visa...

I guess you should install the bootloader to VBR only and than chainload from the Vista bootmanager (assuming ReactOS supports booting from other partitions than the first one).

It is more of a (partly) missing feature than a bug.
There is a related issue at CORE-8802

@Oddjob64

If your virtual machine has a serial port, you may try to disable it and see if it works afterwards.

@laurflorin
@Pi_User5

One can simply type "y /? " at the command prompt to see what it does.
However, the y command copies standard input to standard output until the input ends. It then copies the files specified at the command line to standard output.

Do you mean there's no driver for the network adapter? If so, what adapter have you selected in VirtualBox? The PCnet adapters should work out of the box.

The issue at https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-8574 seems to deal with that issue.

@Pi_User5 If you have copied as is from the opening post and pasted it into cmd, then the reason why you don't have to press return is probably that you have also copied the line breaks at the end of each line. @ laurflorin Is there a reason why you had broken it into serveral lines? The linked docu...

IMHO it is up to the contributor to check for what he contributes, not to the project the contribution goes to. For most users it has little relevance if it is GPL or BSD. If someone contributes, for which it is relevant, than it is his fault if he has not checked before if the license is suitable. ...

I guess people who give money to the project actually know that it is licensed under the GPL, so I see no real problem here.

You can get a nightly build at https://www.reactos.org/getbuilds

You are correct, the double backslashes are escape sequences for a single backslash. As for the copy error, it is indeed an error, since it can't copy the specified files. I guess it is caused because the inf file in question (in your last case battery.inf) doesn't give a proper location where the f...

Looks like it is actually a truncated "machine code" ...

If you give the module that you like to build as parameter, only that module (and the ones it depends on) will be build. For example "ninja calc" will build the Calculator, "ninja paint" will build Paint
and "ninja iexplore" will build Internet Explorer.

The command line interpreter prints the revision on startup and with the ver command, so extracting cmd.exe from reactos.cab and executing it should work.