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To: TianaHighrider

I’d go nuts if I fed that many disks into it, and it died!

Back in the day, I would have tried to just copy all the files off the floppies into a Win98 directory, and fired it off from a Windows DOS bootdisk.

I think Win10 can still be installed from a DOS partition, with all the installation files placed into a directory -— but I haven’t kept up, and not 100% sure.

The laptop I am on now will probably go Linux sometime in the near future. I don’t want to do it before Thanksgiving since we are heading to the beach (if Dare County doesn’t close down again for the ‘Rona), I don’t want to battle my Sierra Wireless card to get it to work.

Linux is “good enough” now. I don’t hotplug a terrible lot of peripherals (just mice and such), and the good peripherals are all networked now, so have protocols that Linux programmers can hack (technically, I am a Linux engineer myself). This is thanks to the craze of connecting every blasted thing in the world to our iPhones.


89 posted on 11/21/2020 7:58:13 AM PST by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: Aqua225

Linux? heck, I think I would stick with that!


91 posted on 11/21/2020 8:02:29 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump )
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