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Advice for NUSB, DOS Networking, Partitioning and Bootloaders

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First post, by Methanoid

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I have some old equipment and fancied make a retro capable machine (for DOS, Win98 thru to Win10).

My mobo is a Gigabyte P41T-D3 which has PCIE-16x, 3 PCIE-1x and 3 PCI slots
It has onboard Realtek ALC892 and RTL8111 gigabit LAN. Mobo of course has no UEFI but also has no AHCI options (just SATA modes and Legacy IDE emulation modes)
CPU is a Xeon E5450 @ 3GHz, 8GB DDR3 (need for Win10)
Graphics from Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 (runs all the OS fine)
Sound from CMI8738 (or SB128 or SBLive PCI)

Q1: Will NUSB support the onboard Intel USB2 controller? Would mean I don't need a VIA PCI USB2 card
Q2: Does RTL8111 work in DOS? EDIT: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=21820 seems to say YES!
Q3: I only want DOS-98-2k-XP-10. Each on own SSD? Smallest SSD I have is 120GB. How would I partition that for DOS6 use?
Q4: Bootloader? I'll probably have Linux or something with Grub as a bootloader anyway so presumably I can chainload each OS?

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Reply 1 of 4, by Harry Potter

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I can only answer Q1, but NUSB worked on a Win98SE tower at my mother's house. I used version 36e, and the ports were labeled as hi-speed, so I think it's USB 2.0.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Methanoid

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Harry Potter wrote on Today, 14:28:

I can only answer Q1, but NUSB worked on a Win98SE tower at my mother's house. I used version 36e, and the ports were labeled as hi-speed, so I think it's USB 2.0.

Onboard controller yes??? If so, that's great to know!

Reply 3 of 4, by Harry Potter

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Seems like onboard controller, as the ports are internal.

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Reply 4 of 4, by Harry Potter

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About Q3: I don't think it's possible to partition a 130GB hard drive under DOS, but you might consider emulating DOS. I use DOSBox and DOSBox-X to play DOS games and applications on two Win64 laptops. You can find DOSBox-X at https://dosbox-x.com/.

Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
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