Enter taskmgr, Processeses and right click setup. This cut down the time to approximately 25 minutes to get XP bit up and running. EXE and setup XP bit to another partition. It did work but was problematic and I am still working on it.
I am not too sure if it cut the time less than 25 minutes. I need to get away from floppy drives. This is not working, tried 2 different computers. It starts from pendrive, loads the f6-images, ask to boot from CD, yes, windows-setups starts, but ALWAYS when setup starts to load files after the F6-question both machines immediately restart! I tried different usb-ports, pendrives, changed the optical drives, RAM, but it is always failing.
I have Windows Pro on a thumb drive, how would I go about using a secondary thumb drive to boot up the necessary drivers to install Windows ? So you might want to do that instead. If you still wish to insist on an F6 solution with two USB pen drives, please read on! One idea to solve this is to replace the BCDL boot loader with yet another syslinux one.
That one would be booted by a corresponding boot track loading ldlinux. Unpack that. On Linux, check which device node the drive has e. The command shown above will allow you to identify your USB disk, but the disk id at the end is decimal, not hexadecimal.
On top of that, it might be a negative number Windows wrongly interprets larger numbers as signed integers instead of unsigned ones. On Windows, the same disk shows up with disk id To convert it to an unsigned decimal integer, calculate 2 32 - That results in Yay Windows quirks!
Alright, back to the bfi. Ok, before running the build process again, edit buildf6. Your primary stick will still emulate an F6 floppy drive like that, while Windows boots from the secondary USB pen drive. Please note that your Windows will have to have service pack 4 included for this to work on USB 2. I have tested this only briefly, but it seems to work!
Would deserve another complete article instead of just a reply here I guess. Also please note that this solution will not work with optical drives attached to USB likely not the case here, just saying. Hello I find this guide and it may be the solution for my old mb without an useful floppy and an yet xp modded iso, so I should do a great time needing work to begin from zero to insert a new textsetup.
Thank you very much for the attention Best Regards. While I do not have a solution for you other than writing your own txtsetup. So you only need one of the two. You can find Smartdrv. Heaven forbid if you have to install any Microsoft OS using floppy disks. I remember installing Windows 95 from floppies. What a pain! Yea, it works great Thanks for your help! Try my instructions I didn't post them to be ignored. Tmagic said:. When you boot with the Windows 98 startup floppy you have 3 options: 1.
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I had more success with true 32bit versions of Windows. For Windows NT 3. So to get it up and running you mount the NT start up floppy disk and the NT install media. Windows takes you through the setup and pretty soon I was up and running.
You should be able to install Internet Explorer 2 if you want to surf the information super highway! I had more luck getting on the internet on NT4. NT4 was a real blast from the past! I have installed many an NT4 system in the distant past so it was like meeting up with an old friend.
This was simple to install, as the CD image is bootable so no need for any virtual floppy drives. Using the legacy network driver I was able to get the network up and running and even managed to get Internet Explorer 2 and 3 installed. Windows Professional which is a single bootable CD image and simple to install.
Windows came with Internet Explorer 5. I managed to get Longhorn M3 and M4 builds running but they have expiration dates so they stopped working a couple of hours after setting them up. Microsoft reset the project which then became Windows Vista. It also shows how flexible and useful Hyper-V is.
I would love to know if any readers have had any luck running old operating systems on Windows Ensuring hardware compatibility Before installing Windows Professional, you must ensure that your computer meets the minimum hardware requirements for the operating system.
In addition, all of the hardware components must be compatible with Windows Professional. First, you should create a partition of more than MB on the drive. Windows requires at least MB of free disk space to perform the installation. Once you create the partition, you must use DOS to format it as a bootable system disk. After verifying that you can boot the system using the hard drive, you can turn your attention to the floppy disk.
Because the hard drive has already been formatted with the appropriate file system, you can use it to format and create a bootable DOS floppy disk.
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