Post Ac9DxbPMffHoEC2iDw by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
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 (DIR) Post #Ac9DxZmKjITFAqm1kO by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
       2023-11-24T20:59:22Z
       
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       It's been quite some time since I've last seen this...I still had a 98LITE folder in my ancient downloads collection with all the files. For some reason it didn't want to run directly off the CD image I created (didn't find a file by its shortened ~8.3 filename), but the problem was gone after copying all files into an installation directory on the harddisk. I initially booted off a FreeDOS floppy with CDROM driver.(Still waiting for things to fail - never tried the Windows 98 installer from FreeDOS, but we'll see...)
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac9Dxac5crs3lMzMQ4 by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
       2023-11-24T21:01:30Z
       
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       Ah, yeah, that was quick...
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac9DxbPMffHoEC2iDw by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
       2023-11-24T21:20:33Z
       
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       So now I sourced an MSDOS 6.22 boot floppy image with HIMEM.SYS (and an IDE CD driver).It didn't like the HDD file system created by FreeDOS, so I'm starting from scratch (good thing the floppy image also has xcopy.exe)...
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac9DxcHbQ0fgwPQ1lQ by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
       2023-11-24T21:24:13Z
       
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       I suspect my VM has too much memory for DOS 6.22 and things fail...
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac9Dxd36ZOfXJjdxo0 by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
       2023-11-24T22:11:23Z
       
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       Oh well, why didn't I search for an Windows 98 install boot disk right away? Now with 512MB RAM and a working installer...
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac9Dxe10yeaiJXfoBc by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
       2023-11-24T22:35:48Z
       
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       ...here we are, Windows 98SE with a W95 start menu.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac9DxephwB8mqlOICW by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
       2023-11-24T23:48:45Z
       
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       Ah! I was wondering why even the emulated PCnet32 network card was not being found, but the SoftGPU driver docs have a fix: Seems like W98 doesn't detect an PCI bus during installation, and you have to force the Plug and Play BIOS Device to PCI in the device manager, even if Windows thinks it's incompatible.After that, everything suddenly shows up...See https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#pci-bus-detection-fix