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@w84death@fosstodon.orgTrying to install 98 on my smol fujitsu retro PC.
Magic command was "SETUP.EXE /NM /IS"
98 did not want to cooperate. I also found out that next problem will be getting git working. Soo.. lets try XP!
@w84death I'm getting triggered by that floppy swap message, having installed early Windows versions in my first real computer job from floppies. I got to read the installer propaganda section so many times I knew it by heart after a week. Then the job lasted for a year or so.
@apzpins yes, something is wrong and installer stops. More fun awaits for me to figure this out. if not, I will use floppies ;P (now hacking freedos and usb storage with cdrom files)
@w84death It behaves like it's using virtual B: floppy drive for some reason. I've never seen the installer do that but the message is familiar from situations where it was necessary to clone a floppy with just one drive.
@apzpins and this PC doesn't have any. There is USB flippy, don't know how it is mapped when not used.
None of my combinations worked in the end, time to go back in time.
I have a lot of floppies and two drives, I will do this the oldshool way burning floppies as installer goes...
@w84death All of the DOS based Windows versions can be installed from the same HDD their system directory will go to. Just copy the stuff off the CD there and run the setup.
@apzpins Turns out this floppy error is from FreeDOS base. People have this problem in the past (reddit).
Installing MS-DOS is a solution in theory.
@w84death So you were installing FreeDOS as the OS and 98 just for the graphical shell?
@apzpins for having multitasking and safe way to crash my assembly code while not crashing whole system.
Did that on other machines (FreeDOS+XP/2K). This one is somehow different.
@w84death I tried installing W98 on a first gen i3 laptop, it didn't work either but XP works fine (not supported by Dell).
A lot of the BSOD on W98 is related to ACPI stuffs, turns out a lot has changed around the time XP came out.