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Thing is, Jaak and others including me are already used to working with the nightlies, which do feature those INIs already for quite some time that we sometimes overlook the fact that the non-testers still work with the "old" DriverPacks.

Previously, when a new DP was released, it required an update for the BASE, too.
In the future, those INIs will take care of that and also allow you to mix DP version as you please (eg. you could use an old DPMS with all-new other packs because that very combination works best for you).

As testing made a big progress recently, I think those packs aren't too far from a public release now

Are yopu sure about both of this?
For #1, I would assume the BASE re-sets the parametre properly (hence, you should always nLite before BASEing).

For #2, I was ripping that part out for a very long time to save valuable space on my CD (have moved to DVD now, if you remember), and seeing as I always used M2, I'm unsure about whether it would really break it.

Things may have changed in the past so I may not be up to date here
Anyway, it certainly does not hurt follwing your advice, I'm just uncertain whether it is absolutely vital...

That is very unusual, I'd say.
Generally, none of the MS drivers are needed on a VM (which one are you using, btw?), as the drives are emulated on default IDE controllers, for which Win already provides drivers/support out of the box.

You may want to double-check your ISO image for any problems, or maybe even your system's RAM.
I cannot remember any hangs during the textmode phase while testing on my VM, and I do run a lot of tests

Well, only when you do not use an ordinary IDE controller for the boot/install HDD.

Since you said it's SATA, yes, you will need the TM drivers.

Or a corrupted HDD or corrupted RAM on your end.

Not trying to blame you, but I haven't had a corrupted DL from here in a long time, and, judging by their silence, this is also true for other members

I agree, though, that some MD5 sums would be great to have (as we do for the 3rd party DriverPacks).
Did you try 7-Zip's "Test Archive" functionality yet?

Fixed now, try again, please!

Why not?
Just curious, because I have done several updates on my laptop so far and it wasn't any different than for a desktop system.
Then again, IDK how Sony handles this and whether they actually offer updates...

FYI, Knoppix also has a CD version out.

I guess  total newbie wouldn't even get the idea to unpack anything (nor would he be capable of, as it requires 7zip).

In any case, yes, a proper documentation is (still) in the works, however, we prioritized working on the actual programme rather than some notes.
Not much use in these if there are still bugs in the software, eh?

Unless I'm totally mistaken, this has already been added to the latest Nightly by muiz.

Of course, you are not to blame because you didn't know
Just informing you we've already got this covered.

You will need to install the HDA hotfix from MS to make any HDA device work.
AFTER you have installed that, the real SC driver can be installed.

Ususally, this is handled by the DriverPacks.
If you use an UpdatePack which already contains the HDA hotfix, this step will be skipped because unnecessary.

Please post your logs to see whether the HDA detection worked properly.

Sure!
If you like to, you can become a member of the Testing Team, meaning you will get to test the nightlies - both BASE as well as DriverPacks before they get released.

The more testers we have, the larger hardware base we can test things on.
Since a VM cannot emulate the hardware, we can only properly test those drivers we actually have the HW for.
With a limited amount of testers, only the most common HW will usually get tested.

Try to PM/email Bâshrat the Sneaky about it so he can unlock your account for access to the Testers sub-forum.

Did you already try applying a BIOS update?
Chances are (check the changelog) even the SATA controller got updated.

Maybe this is indeed a more serious problem/bug...