Re: Network Booting (and some NetWare stuff)

Posted on 2023-05-17, 17:15

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by Gopher666

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PXE: This is the one used today. It works over TCP/IP. Retro systems likely won't support this so I've not bothered with it. I love pxe, this old garbage RPL on the other hand lol. I don't even have one single network card or mobo which can do this. Anyway now that I set this up on my Novell server …

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Re: Why are people like this exist

Posted on 2023-04-01, 17:13

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by Gopher666

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frankmonk wrote on 2023-03-31, 22:26: That's a well known guy on Germans craiglist. He is listing his collection for almost 2 years. I doubt he ever sold something to someone He is just desperately searching for attention. Craigslist only works in the USA, nowhere else in the world.

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Re: Why are people like this exist

Posted on 2023-03-31, 19:15

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by Gopher666

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Not really talking of any kind of "monnies" here, these PCs have sentimental value for me. Many people in this life don't deserve what they have, this bum is an example right for that. He tried to list some of these for 50eur a piece with filling out brief description like "286 386 486 old computer" …

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Why do people like this exist?

Posted on 2023-03-30, 19:52

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by Gopher666

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I watch retro stuff on bunch of auction portals this is how i come across the following ad Today: Only complete to resellers on presentation of the trade license or to solvent complete buyers! Collection that has been in existence for over 9 years has to go! 246 pieces, mainly 386, 486 and early …

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History Of The SPARC CPU Architecture and scoring some Spar Stations

Posted on 2023-03-30, 04:58

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by Gopher666

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https://hackaday.com/2023/03/28/history-of-the-sparc-cpu-architecture/ This good article/video inspired me to add some Sun boxes to my collection as a must have. Not for gaming of course as you can't really run win9x on these but for running the original Solaris and maybe playing around with Linuxes …

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Re: Novell RCONSOLE via RS232 serial port

Posted on 2023-03-20, 18:17

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by Gopher666

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I didn't have a single cable like that at home so I built one and guess what ... it worked :D It is slow, I don't know why. I did work fair amount with Linux/BSD/AIX/network hardware with 9600 bps serials but this is just megaslow like you push the down key 5 times and wait about 5 seconds until it …

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Re: Novell RCONSOLE via RS232 serial port

Posted on 2023-03-20, 14:32

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by Gopher666

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No idea 🤣? But if it works fine with 2 minicoms/screens on 2 linuxes I don't see why shouldn't it with the novell but now that you said it I will just try all my nullmodem cables to see if it makes a difference. All 3 works fine between 2 linuxes.

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Novell RCONSOLE via RS232 serial port

Posted on 2023-03-20, 10:29

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by Gopher666

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https://www.techrepublic.com/a/hub/i/2015/06/03/0f45aacd-098d-11e5-940f-14feb5cc3d2a/t01719990831hea20_02.gif Some of you might remembers this tool for remotely managing Novell 4.x servers. It actually works well with Win95/Win98 clients using IPX/SPX with the synchronous mode. Now for the …

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Novell modify SYS drive letter

Posted on 2023-03-11, 22:25

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by Gopher666

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I wonder if anyone knows how to do the trick because it's annoying AF. I got an X:\ Y:\ drives mapped in from a samba server for games. There's another Novell 4.11 server where if I log in it's thinks it's brilliant idea to kill these drives and always mount the SYS volume as X: drive. There are …

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Re: Kinda lost building my legacy gaming setups and I need YOUR HELP *points finger*

Posted on 2023-03-05, 19:40

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by Gopher666

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To be completely honest with you I don't even know why would you use such a piece of trash OS like Win95. Sure I have it for fun with all of it's brokenness to boot it in for a causal 10 minute R&R but to play games on it or do anything on it? Just why? Can't speak for anyone else, but for me …

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Re: Kinda lost building my legacy gaming setups and I need YOUR HELP *points finger*

Posted on 2023-03-04, 20:06

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by Gopher666

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To be completely honest with you I don't even know why would you use such a piece of trash OS like Win95. Sure I have it for fun with all of it's brokenness to boot it in for a causal 10 minute R&R but to play games on it or do anything on it? Just why? Win98SE can run the exact same games and far …

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Xbox 360 time?

Posted on 2023-03-04, 09:39

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by Gopher666

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The 360 phats don't have RTC in them. I wonder what was the reasoning behind this, to keep the costs down or don't bother with the extra shipping regulation on lithium batteries :) I guess in 2005 nobody care fuck all about that so it's probably the first. Any way to feed the time into this thing? I …

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Re: Novell 4.11 120 GB cap?

Posted on 2023-01-02, 18:34

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by Gopher666

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I played around these a bit, it's actually pretty bad you need to go up to version 6.0 to have large drives recognized properly: NetWare 6-2023-01-02-19-26-45.png NetWare 6.0 NetWare 6 was released in October 2001, shortly after its predecessor. This version has a simplified licensing scheme based …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2022-12-30, 09:46

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by Gopher666

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FreeSCO FTW, that's fucking rocks that they still have their webpage after all this time: https://www.freesco.org/ This was a cool 1 floppy router linux OS, some ipchains glories from those early days!

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Re: Novell 4.11 120 GB cap?

Posted on 2022-12-30, 09:37

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by Gopher666

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Oh so you assume it's a limitation of the Novell IDE driver? It definitely seems like an OS detection/limitation issue just did a test with vmware it's the same max size is 131069.3 MB :X FUUUU Novell is a maze, it's not that clearcut regardless that this is the 4.11 intranetware, intranetware …

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Re: SDCard to IDE adapter lag spikes

Posted on 2022-12-29, 22:41

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by Gopher666

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Yes it's resolved I enabled it on ME, works good yo. On XP wasn't an issue because it enabled it by default.

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Novell 4.11 120 GB cap?

Posted on 2022-12-29, 22:37

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by Gopher666

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120g.png Got a 320GB mini IDE disk. This disk works fine with BSDs, Linuxes on the same box seeing the whole capacity. However Novell 4.11 don't want to play nice only sees about 130GB which reminds me to that old 120GB cap crap According to the dox I can find online as stunning this is even the …

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Re: SDCard to IDE adapter lag spikes

Posted on 2022-10-18, 15:56

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by Gopher666

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Thanks, indeed enabling the dma for the CF adapter did help. I don't care about the speed but if your system freezes randomly for 2-3 seconds after using that box for a couple of hours you want to throw it out from the 10th floor or smash it with a sledgehammer. https://i.ibb.co/V2Drt41/dma.jpg …

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SDCard to IDE adapter lag spikes

Posted on 2022-10-15, 19:01

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by Gopher666

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I got this cheapo SDcard to IDE adapter: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZowAAOSwkDdc9Mge/s-l500.jpg Identifies as FC-1307. The box is a newer hw build with 1.7Ghz CPU and 1GB ram so that cannot be a bottleneck. Os Win98SE. What this thing does is the whole system rots in at FS operations randomly …

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Re: Looking for suggestions on a simple hardware (external) mixer

Posted on 2022-09-09, 07:23

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by Gopher666

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Sorry to bump this up but any of you Audiophiles have recommendations regarding old mixer brands from the end 70s 80s 90s? Like I saw bunch of HAMA, Sound city and other noname brands floating around on the markets for almost free but are they good for PC audio, for sound card output voltage levels? …

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