Post Azd2PcRy2EmkUwowU4 by slaine@mastodon.ie
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(DIR) Post #AzaFu9dvoAkWvoH1lY by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:08:17Z
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arg you can't install NT4.0 from a DOS boot disk? lemme go find a NT4.0 boot disk, I guess. fun error, though: you get a completely different filesystem on DOS, and it just holds a readme telling you that you fucked up
(DIR) Post #AzaG8JDizrTkgmlUoa by ezio@akko.wtf
2025-10-26T00:09:53.881825Z
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@foone did they ever make a disk that had sp6a built in? i thought there where only disks up to sp1 for installing
(DIR) Post #AzaG8KjfMachO8iWEy by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:10:47Z
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@ezio this ISO may be a less than official copy of NT4 that just has updates slipstreamed into it
(DIR) Post #AzaGNozT9tgBZ9Uh9c by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:13:36Z
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@Rairii shit am I trying to install off a service pack only disc again?
(DIR) Post #AzaGW1OAwfHqKsxbBw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:15:06Z
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okay this may be the wrong ISO, I might be trying to install off a service pack update disc
(DIR) Post #AzaGYucCaPriCDtpPE by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:15:15Z
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I really should label these files better
(DIR) Post #AzaGcuhQDPOjcEFUyO by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:16:24Z
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yeah this is only service pack 6. no wonder I can't install from it. gah
(DIR) Post #AzaGpOMbkYe75oSnzM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:18:32Z
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I think I made this exact mistake the last time I installed NT4.0
(DIR) Post #AzaH4pxDS3Yt0Tx3Pk by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:21:25Z
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I'm in
(DIR) Post #AzaHS2A2EWFZWf0b2W by pascaldragon@metalhead.club
2025-10-26T00:25:29Z
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@foone ISO is very fascinating in that regard. You can even have different file systems for big and little endian systems which was used for Mac and Windows software back when Macs still were PowerPC based š²
(DIR) Post #AzaHcyNybqG30EkIts by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:27:32Z
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okay that didn't take too long. although I guess I should apply that service pack now
(DIR) Post #AzaHleNYMbabYigYvw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:28:46Z
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there it goes
(DIR) Post #AzaI4GlYNcTRpKn1Ye by agowa338@chaos.social
2025-10-26T00:32:32Z
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@foone Ehm, I think there are DOS boot disks that support ISO-9660 though. Or what exactly was the win95 boot disk?I thought it had a driver for cd drives with iso 9660 but I could be wrong though...
(DIR) Post #AzaI7ilGkZOxWQIopE by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:33:12Z
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@agowa338 yeah the text is a little confusing, they mean the Joliet extension to ISO-9660
(DIR) Post #AzaIG6xIgI04sJvllw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:34:40Z
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okay NT4.0 is set up for later hacking. that didn't take terribly long, I was afraid this'd be A Pain.
(DIR) Post #AzaIKWgmwhb9qSJS4m by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:35:31Z
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I KNOW A LOT OF PROGRAMMERS THAT USE APM/ACPI AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS
(DIR) Post #AzaIRqnuYd3SG18YD2 by JennyFluff@chitter.xyz
2025-10-26T00:36:41Z
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@foone it is now safe to snug your computer
(DIR) Post #AzaIVBryh0IsSZdDmq by philpem@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:37:26Z
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@foone you managed to install a service pack in only five minutes?! what is this dark magic?
(DIR) Post #AzaItOlqNWGTQDJ17I by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:41:43Z
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@onfy it does, it just isn't enabled by default and may not work depending on your particular motherboard/laptop
(DIR) Post #AzaJ6AcKJPFDI2wbEu by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:44:05Z
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@philpem 86 is set to emulate a 200mhz Pentium Pro with a ramdisk-fast hard drive and a similarly fast CD-ROM drive, so it's quite snappy
(DIR) Post #AzaJlpnI7dmws2wKRM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:51:37Z
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@onfy yeah it's apparently not in the generic HAL, but if your motherboard maker providers their own HAL or has one provided by microsoft, it might work
(DIR) Post #AzaJojhVEY6wqDcFPM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:51:50Z
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@onfy bunch of info about it here: https://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/softoff.htm
(DIR) Post #AzaJrbt0kB55TSMx3g by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:52:11Z
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@onfy it kinda works on my (emulated) slot 1 machine. it tries, but it ends up rebooting instead of powering off
(DIR) Post #AzaKIbhBYqHchXi92G by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T00:57:28Z
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@onfy yeah I went for a 1gb drive just to be safe
(DIR) Post #AzaQiHTByvFnE6n7Kq by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T02:09:23Z
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@Rairii @onfy I have no clue, but that sounds reasonable
(DIR) Post #AzbFK0zWgxmspd6N16 by theron29@witter.cz
2025-10-26T11:36:16Z
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@foone Why would anybody do this to themselves? š¤
(DIR) Post #AzbXlBHCSI6Ur1crUe by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-26T15:02:56Z
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@theron29 I need NT4 as I'm working on preserving some software that (currently) only runs on NT4
(DIR) Post #Azd2PcRy2EmkUwowU4 by slaine@mastodon.ie
2025-10-27T08:21:05Z
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@foone for a period of time there, NT4 was may main work environment. I really liked it. It was so much more stable a dev environment than earlier setups Iād used. Followed by Windows 2000 which was probably my favorite.