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   GEM is truly truly outrageous (seg@oldbytes.space)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 18:37:31 JST GEM is truly truly outrageous

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   okay, think i've had enough reminders of how fiddly this era was, decided on putting Windows 95 OSR2 on this thing, which will give us FAT32, networking, and all drivers for this system out of the box

   bad news, the cdrom is detected but doesn't see any disks, and to top it off the one CD burner i saved doesn't seem to work anymore 🙃

   that leaves the network card for mass movement of data onto this machine

   so by installing Basic Linux, an old two floppy Linux based on Slackware 4.0, i was able to feed the Win95 install files over the network

   https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/

   ezhttpd for the win once again

   https://github.com/SegHaxx/ezhttpd

   old PC tech trick, just copy the Win95 directory from the CD onto a blank C: drive, and start the install from there

   you will never have to suffer the dreaded "please insert the Win95 install CD" dialogs when fiddling with drivers

   #retrocomputing #retropc #Windows95