Installing an OS on my CF card (but i don't know what I'm doing)

1. 2024-01-01 at 2:19 AM UTC

   #21
   

   Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]

   Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You have to fdisk and format both drives from the A-floppy after booting from the A-floppy. Just because the drive is recognized doesn't mean it's fdisk'd and formatted.

   
   Well I'm not able to get anything to boot from a: yet so that's kind of fucking hard.
   I'll fdick your mom.
2. 2024-01-01 at 3:35 AM UTC

   #22
   

   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

   Originally posted by Fonaplats Well I'm not able to get anything to boot from a: yet so that's kind of fucking hard.
   I'll fdick your mom.

   
   If you can't boot from A, then you don't have a proper A-drive boot disk in it. It's that simple.
3. 2024-01-01 at 3:56 AM UTC

   #23
   

   vindicktive vinny Black Hole
   also old computers have limitation on the size of drives they can read.
   
   capacity beyond X megs are off limits.
4. 2024-01-01 at 3:57 AM UTC

   #24
   

   infinityshock Black Hole

   Originally posted by vindicktive vinny also old computers have limitation on the size of drives they can read.
   
   capacity beyond X megs are off limits.

   
   tell that to my commodore 64
5. 2024-01-01 at 4:21 AM UTC

   #25
   

   vindicktive vinny Black Hole

   Originally posted by infinityshock tell that to my commodore 64

   
   bring your comodore here.
6. 2024-01-01 at 4:21 AM UTC

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   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole

   Originally posted by vindicktive vinny also old computers have limitation on the size of drives they can read.
   
   capacity beyond X megs are off limits.

   
   On Win95, only 32 GB (FAT32). 127 GB in Win98.
7. 2024-01-01 at 4:26 AM UTC

   #27
   

   vindicktive vinny Black Hole

   Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On Win95, only 32 GB (FAT32). 127 GB in Win98.

   
   on winXP its 2tb.
8. 2024-01-01 at 4:52 AM UTC

   #28
   

   Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]

   Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you can't boot from A, then you don't have a proper A-drive boot disk in it. It's that simple.

   
   I probably dont. I have little idea what I'm doing and I need to learn another way to do this.
   I could buy MSDOS 6.22 on ebay I suppose.
9. 2024-01-01 at 4:52 AM UTC

   #29
   

   Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]

   Originally posted by vindicktive vinny also old computers have limitation on the size of drives they can read.
   
   capacity beyond X megs are off limits.

   
   I done did my research on dis boss.
10. 2024-01-01 at 4:58 AM UTC

    #30
    

    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    iirc DOS will only install from letters reserved for floppy drives (A: or B:) and only to letters assigned to hard drives (C:, D:, E:) but haven't touched it since I was like 12
    
    first thing I would try is to download a DOS iso (https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/dos.html)
    write it to the CF card through the card reader using RUFUS (https://rufus.ie/en/) - you might need to mess around with flags
    
    how big is the CF card? remember that MSDOS will only recognise FAT16, you can't use FAT32 or any of the newer filesystems
11. 2024-01-01 at 5:07 AM UTC

    #31
    

    Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]

    Originally posted by aldra iirc DOS will only install from letters reserved for floppy drives (A: or B:) and only to letters assigned to hard drives (C:, D:, E:) but haven't touched it since I was like 12
    
    first thing I would try is to download a DOS iso (https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/dos.html)
    write it to the CF card through the card reader using RUFUS (https://rufus.ie/en/) - you might need to mess around with flags
    
    how big is the CF card? remember that MSDOS will only recognise FAT16, you can't use FAT32 or any of the newer filesystems

    
    The CF card is 4gb which is what LGR said to use. Rufus won't write DOS. I FAT 16 is just FAT now.
12. 2024-01-01 at 5:17 AM UTC

    #32
    

    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    rufus should work fine so long as you put the settings in correctly, ie. MBR boot, BIOS boot, FAT16 filesystem
    
    the options for windows/lunix distros and stuff are just there for convenience. last time I was making boot images rufus was the only thing for windows that would reliably write the entire image sector-by-sector (like lunix dd); most tools will create a default Windows boot configuration in the partition header and then copy the files over rather that copying the actual partition header from the image
13. 2024-01-01 at 5:20 AM UTC

    #33
    

    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole
    Your problem is you are still not using a proper bootable disk in the A drive. If you did, it would boot to the a: prompt so you could transfer the system to the D drive (which you still haven't formatted in the CMOS properly) using sys.com.
14. 2024-01-01 at 7:56 AM UTC

    #34
    

    Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]
    Rufus will not let me select my USB floppy drive...
    I'm going to bed but I'll dick with it more tomorrow.
15. 2024-01-01 at 8:20 AM UTC

    #35
    

    infinityshock Black Hole

    Originally posted by vindicktive vinny bring your comodore here.

    
    My real admiral 2k is coming
16. 2024-01-01 at 11:56 AM UTC

    #36
    

    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

    Originally posted by Fonaplats Rufus will not let me select my USB floppy drive…
    I'm going to bed but I'll dick with it more tomorrow.

    
    check the 'list usb harddrives' box, by default it hides drives that are more tthan 2GB or something so that you don't accidentally write an image to your system drive
17. 2024-01-01 at 12:18 PM UTC

    #37
    

    vindicktive vinny Black Hole

    Originally posted by infinityshock My real admiral 2k is coming

    
    did you mean *rear* admiral
18. 2024-01-01 at 4:28 PM UTC

    #38
    

    Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]
    Please would anyone be willing to give me step by step idiot proof instructions on exactly how to write MDSOS 6.22 to a CF card?
19. 2024-01-01 at 5:29 PM UTC

    #39
    

    infinityshock Black Hole

    Originally posted by vindicktive vinny did you mean *rear* admiral

    
    all the way in the rear...right up the poop deck
20. 2024-01-02 at 3:47 AM UTC

    #40
    

    ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black Hole
    Put a floppy diskette in the a:drive
    Go to a DOS prompt in Windows and type sys.com a:
    Manually copy format.com, fdisk.exe and chkdsk.exe to the floppy.
    Reboot the computer with the floppy in the a:drive
    At the command prompt, type fdisk.exe [CFcard drive letter] ie: fdisk.com e:
    At the command prompt, type format.com [CFcard drive letter] ie: format.com e:
    At the command prompt, type chkdsk.exe [CFcard drive letter] ie: chkdsk.exe e: