TELEPACMAN wrote:

Cool!

Thank you 😀

Today's website updates: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/whats-new/tod … ebsite-updates1

Produced two new videos that show you how to install MS-DOS 6.22 and configure CD-ROM and mouse drivers as well as memory options such as extended or expanded memory.

Downloadable AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS and CD-ROM and mouse drivers are provided!

Video tutorial: How to install MS-DOS 6.22

MS-DOS CD-ROM, mouse and memory tutorial

I got some comments to the second video:

There is only a indirect relation between Turrican II complaining about 'already in V86 mode' and EMS.
Turrican II wants to use protected mode (probably Unreal mode) for it's own memory management.
If you load a memory manager such as EMM386 it switches to protected mode, even if you give NOEMS as option.
(e.g. protected mode is required to map from XMS memory to UMBs.)
Of course on a 386 or better you can use such a memory manager to emulate EMS. However you could also have EMS by plugging a EMS memory card and this would leave the CPU in Real Mode.

Hmm, for the length of the video it's probably accurate enough.

You should note that the CD-ROM driver recommendation is for ATAPI drives only.

Thanks for the info 😀

I guess I like to keep my videos reasonable simple. You know, getting people from watching the video to playing old games on their retro PC ASAP 😊

Hmm not sure if I will ever cover SCSI gear...

Great stuff! Haven't looked at any your stuff but I personally think it's great that someone gets so much use out of older hardware and software. A lot of it goes to waste and people just push forward and literally throw away the old games and hardware. It's certainly great how you help other people who are interested in the same thing! Very nice. Good stuff!

Thank you Holering 😀

Website updates!

Added more content to the website:

Doom shareware download
Quake shareware download
Quake III Arena demo download
Incoming and Expendable demo download
Turrican II AWE64 Gold recordings

http://www.philscomputerlab.com/game-demos.html

Produced a new video!

Very handy when you re-install W98 ALL THE TIME like I do 😀

Unattended Windows 98 installation using answer file

What a waste of time! Disk/partition cloning is the way to go. 😎

Firtasik wrote:

What a waste of time! Disk/partition cloning is the way to go. 😎

Of course. But I never start off with an image. Always a fresh install. Then I take an image. Especially on different hardware.

What cloning software do you use? And do you clone on the retro machine or remove the HDD and clone on a modern desktop (that's what I do).

But I might want to use something that's based on two hard drives. Clone on the retro PC and save the image to the second hard drive. It should also work on older machines with little memory.

I use Clonezilla Live on all of my PCs. I don't remove disks for cloning, I just save system partition images onto another partitions. 😀

Firtasik wrote:

I use Clonezilla Live on all of my PCs. I don't remove disks for cloning, I just save system partition images onto another partitions. 😀

What's the slowest / most basic machine you used this on?

Athlon XP 2000+, 1 GB RAM. Above minimum system requirements. 😉

Firtasik wrote:

Athlon XP 2000+, 1 GB RAM. Above minimum system requirements. 😉

Thanks for that! I checked the website and it seems it needs 200 MB Ram minimum. This should work well for my Slot 1 and Socket 370 projects.

Could you please give me a brief summary of steps?

Do you create 2 or partitions?
Install Windows and everything on the first.
Boot with the live CD and image the first partition and save that image on the second?
And then restore partition 1 from the image file that is on partition 2?
How not to mess up the boot sector?

awesome!
I use setup.inf as well , it does many things during installation - custom installation, deletes OE, regwizard, useless apps, icons, kills active desktop, setups folder views, installs tweak ui, some updates, IE6.1 , utils, SP2, setups network/autologon... it's REALLY handy and saves lots of time in installations!

Methods tested by me:

1. Cloning a system partition with Windows 98

Steps:

- English
- Don't touch keymap
- Start Clonezilla
- device-image
- local_dev -> Press Enter
- Choose /home/partimag - where you want to save the image (probably sda2)
- Directory - may be top one -> Press Enter
- Expert
- saveparts
- Choose the name
- Mark the system partition (probably sda1)
- q2
- -c -j2 (you can also mark -rm-win-swap-hib (for smaller size) and -gm or -gs (for checksums))
- Compression: z0 - fastest, but no compression; -z5 smaller image, but slow; you can try -z1 gzip
- image size (split) may stay 2000
- you can choose -fsck-src-part for a FAT partition
- Yes, check the saved image (if you marked -gm or -gs)
- Choose original to backup (it may not appear)
- Choose Reboot

2. Restoring a system partition with Windows 98

Steps:

- English
- Don't touch keymap
- Start Clonezilla
- device-image
- local_dev -> Press Enter
- Choose /home/partimag - where you saved the image (probably sda2)
- Choose a directory (may be top one)
- Expert
- restorparts
- Choose the image
- Choose the system partition (probably sda1)
- Mark: -e1 -e2 -c -t -r -j2 -cm or cs (if you made checksums)
- k - Do NOT create a partition table on the target disk
- y & y
- Choose Reboot

You can install Windows on a virtual machine and test it there first. 😀

Ok that was an epic fail.

It really needs ~ 200 MB RAM. And then on my Pentium 100 it takes forever to boot from the live CD. A waste of time 😀

You can use that P100 HDD on a modern computer (parallel xz compression FTW!), for example, through a IDE to USB adapter. Clonning/restoring this way a fully configured system is still a time-saver. 😀

Firtasik wrote:

You can use that P100 HDD on a modern computer (parallel xz compression FTW!), for example, through a IDE to USB adapter. Clonning/restoring this way a fully configured system is still a time-saver. 😀

I've been doing this for like forever 😀 I swear it booted for 10 minutes before I gave up and restarted the Pentium. On the USB 3 CF card reader the image took like 15 seconds.

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