so I need to install DOS, windows 3.1, Print Shop Deluxe III, and a printer driver onto this Pentium II laptop.
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so probably I copy over something that'll let me null-modem the serial to my main laptop
if I had access to my PCMCIA cards I could plug in an ethernet card and network stuff over.
but I don't
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so I need to install DOS, windows 3.1, Print Shop Deluxe III, and a printer driver onto this Pentium II laptop.
Difficulty: The system has a dead CD-ROM drive. It does have a floppy drive, however... but that's a lot to move via floppy.
It's a win98-era laptop. It has USB, serial, parallel, PS/2, dual PCMCIA slots, floppy, DVD (broken), and a docking connector.
So now my challenge is: How do I get this software onto the machine without having to slowly write something like 10 floppy disks?
@foone I wonder if 10 diskettes are really slower than a USB 1 CDROM
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so I need to install DOS, windows 3.1, Print Shop Deluxe III, and a printer driver onto this Pentium II laptop.
Difficulty: The system has a dead CD-ROM drive. It does have a floppy drive, however... but that's a lot to move via floppy.
It's a win98-era laptop. It has USB, serial, parallel, PS/2, dual PCMCIA slots, floppy, DVD (broken), and a docking connector.
So now my challenge is: How do I get this software onto the machine without having to slowly write something like 10 floppy disks?
@foone Maybe file transfer over the serial port? Probably slow, but at least you don't have to manually write 10 floppies that way...
(I haven't tried it yet, but I do want to try it with a computer that I have that doesn't have Ethernet, at some point.)
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@foone usb flash drive?
@moftasa it can't boot off USB, so I'd need to move something via floppy that can talk USB
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I don't know if there's any software I could install that'd let me use the USB ports.
well, any software short of Win98. I'd love to have win98 on here, but HOW DO IT GET IT OVER THERE?
@foone Shot in the dark, but would Plop Boot Manager work? I think it might be possible to chainload USB with it.
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@foone I wonder if 10 diskettes are really slower than a USB 1 CDROM
@pjakobs it has a REALLY SLOW floppy drive
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@foone usb flash drive?
@foone or may be a floppy disk linux distro like Hal 91 would let you access the USB drive .. I don't know, you are the pro.
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if I had access to my PCMCIA cards I could plug in an ethernet card and network stuff over.
but I don't
@foone can't you just take out the hdd and dd an image?
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@foone Shot in the dark, but would Plop Boot Manager work? I think it might be possible to chainload USB with it.
@kewliomzx I don't think so, because the BIOS doesn't know how to talk to a USB storage device at all. and I think plop would just be able to chainload to any device the BIOS can talk to
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@foone can't you just take out the hdd and dd an image?
@tecteun don't have the correct adapters handy, it's using a 44pin IDE hard drive
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so I need to install DOS, windows 3.1, Print Shop Deluxe III, and a printer driver onto this Pentium II laptop.
Difficulty: The system has a dead CD-ROM drive. It does have a floppy drive, however... but that's a lot to move via floppy.
It's a win98-era laptop. It has USB, serial, parallel, PS/2, dual PCMCIA slots, floppy, DVD (broken), and a docking connector.
So now my challenge is: How do I get this software onto the machine without having to slowly write something like 10 floppy disks?
@foone If you have the kit -
* Parallel port hard-drive or cdrom
* PCMCIA SCSI cdrom
* Remove the disk, mount it on another machine and dump the install files on there, put it back in the laptop, mount the disk and run the install process -
if I had access to my PCMCIA cards I could plug in an ethernet card and network stuff over.
but I don't
@foone Check the BIOS of the machine; You might be able to tell it to expose USB Mass Storage devices as Hard Drives. If you can, then you should be able to plug in a thumb drive with your files on it before booting, assuming you have DOS installed already.
Otherwise, https://bretjohnson.us/ exists as well, which is USB Drivers for DOS.
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if I had access to my PCMCIA cards I could plug in an ethernet card and network stuff over.
but I don't
@foone there’s probably a ”linux on a couple of diskettes” thing you can use
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I don't know if there's any software I could install that'd let me use the USB ports.
well, any software short of Win98. I'd love to have win98 on here, but HOW DO IT GET IT OVER THERE?
@foone there is a USB stack for DOS. Also, KolibriOS has a USB stack that should be supported. Either are going to be just one floppy
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so I need to install DOS, windows 3.1, Print Shop Deluxe III, and a printer driver onto this Pentium II laptop.
Difficulty: The system has a dead CD-ROM drive. It does have a floppy drive, however... but that's a lot to move via floppy.
It's a win98-era laptop. It has USB, serial, parallel, PS/2, dual PCMCIA slots, floppy, DVD (broken), and a docking connector.
So now my challenge is: How do I get this software onto the machine without having to slowly write something like 10 floppy disks?
@foone the old DOS versions of Laplink or clones thereof were good for that purpose.
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@pjakobs it has a REALLY SLOW floppy drive
@foone but as slow as 12MBit/s?
hmm... 12Mbit/s is a raw 1.5MByte/s - that's at least more raw bandwith. A 1x CDROM does 300kByte/s so you would be able to run a 4x probably, yes, that should be faster than any floppy.
The things we used to put up with back then! -
I don't know if there's any software I could install that'd let me use the USB ports.
well, any software short of Win98. I'd love to have win98 on here, but HOW DO IT GET IT OVER THERE?
@foone freedos might do that, no?
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if I had access to my PCMCIA cards I could plug in an ethernet card and network stuff over.
but I don't
did my USB floppy drive just die on me?!
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I don't know if there's any software I could install that'd let me use the USB ports.
well, any software short of Win98. I'd love to have win98 on here, but HOW DO IT GET IT OVER THERE?
@foone ethernet pcmcia or cardbus card -
did my USB floppy drive just die on me?!
I'll have to switch to one of my many other USB floppy drives.
