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 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?
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?
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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 usb flash drive?
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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?
so probably I copy over something that'll let me null-modem the serial to my main 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?
