From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card"
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/user/Druaga1/
>>
>> I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my desktop, and it
From: Ralf Quint
On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>
>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card":
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-hDOiI0-6s
> I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my desktop, and it
> speeds things up a treat.
>
> I could install Win2K t
From: dmccunney
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:52 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>
>> My old notebook was set to multiboot, with Win2K Pro, a couple of
>> flavors of Linux, and FreeDOS on separate HD pa
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:52 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> My old notebook was set to multiboot, with Win2K Pro, a couple of
> flavors of Linux, and FreeDOS on separate HD partitions.
Do you ever watch YouTube? I found a guy
From: Louis Santillan
If the drive (vs. the floppy) itself remains an issue in the 486,
devices like these [0] are becoming popular. Just plugin some old USB
flash drive with the image file and you're good to go.
Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator
[0] http://a.co/48x3vtl
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 6:52 P
From: dmccunney
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Santiago Almenara wrote:
> 2017-01-01 18:52 GMT-05:00 dmccunney :
>> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of
>> which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to
>> floppy, put it on a shelf, and be
From: dmccunney
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I never had a USB floppy drive but have experience with regular floppy
drives, 3.5" and 5.25".
>
> In the later years, I had great trouble with floppy drives. Ability to
write was lost before the ability to read. 5.25" fl
From: "Thomas Mueller"
> I was asked why I cannot put FreeDOS on a floppy. Here is the reason. I
> just tried another floppy disk that I found. It is original from before
> 1995, so it may be broken. I can try to check on my 486 once it is up
> and running, but for now this is what I get on Linux
