Subj : My new* 486 (*=old)
To   : BEN COLLVER
From : Cougar428
Date : Wed Feb 22 2023 07:30:00

-=> Quoting Ben Collver to Cougar428 <=-

 BC> Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
 BC> By: Cougar428 to BEN COLLVER on Mon Feb 20 2023 11:18:00
 
 BC> Thanks for your offer!  I'm interested in getting copies of your
 BC> original disks.  I'm open to downloading floppy images if that makes
 BC> it any easier for you. 

I'll check out what I have and see about creating images.  I have a
registered version of Winimage 10 that I can use to create the
diskette images for download.  It creates .img files.

 BC> The rest of this message is an update about my computer:

 BC> I ordered a USB floppy drive to write boot disks and i expect it to
 BC> arrive in a day or two.

I also have a 386SX and I tried a USB floppy on my newer systems to
write files for the older system.  I didn't have much luck with it,
hopefully you have better luck.

 BC> I replaced the CMOS battery and somehow managed to get Windows ME to
 BC> boot and shut down without BSOD.  Now i have a "clean" filesystem to
 BC> back up.  I don't want to run Windows ME, but i plan to back up and
 BC> view the filesystem in case it has any drivers or useful bits. 
 BC> While i was at it, i identified the PCI audio card and modem.  They
 BC> are both Windows-only and i plan to remove them.  A friend offered to
 BC> send me an ISA SoundBlaster 16, which makes me happy. 

I also replaced the CMOS battery on the 386 and the PC350 P90.  I am
suprised you got ME working, I bought that OS new and after
'upgrading' from 98SE, I had lots of BSOD's just using the ME OS
normally.

 BC> The disk is actually 13.6 GB but the BIOS can only see the first 4 GB.

For the PC350, I purchased a 1 GB DOM on Ebay and formatted it with
PC-DOS 6, the system came with dual boot OS/2 (red spine so it can
also run Win31 stuff). I don't normally use OS/2 but boot to DOS.

The DOM's are pretty cheap and they are faster, kind of like SSD's
for newer systems.  It's just a chip attached to an IDE or EIDE
ribbon that plugs into the system board controller.  I still use a
Seagate 850mb HDD in the 386SX, but only formatted to 512mb.

Sounds like you are off to a great start! Have fun...

Cougar


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