#win98se — Public Fediverse posts

I spent this evening trying to get my physical retro PC, a Pentium 166MHz running Windows 98 SE, to connect to an 80GB IDE harddisk. The BIOS seems to be limited to a maximum of 8GB, but in the end I managed to get it working. I needed to use Ontrack's Disk Manager 2000 to install a DDO driver.

I guess I became too lazy! Emulating old hardware is so much more convenient than dealing with real-world limitations like this. 😅

#RetroComputing #IBMPC #PATA #Win98SE #BIOS

I spent this evening trying to get my physical retro PC, a Pentium 166MHz running Windows 98 SE, to connect to an 80GB IDE harddisk. The BIOS seems to be limited to a maximum of 8GB, but in the end I managed to get it working. I needed to use Ontrack's Disk Manager 2000 to install a DDO driver.

I guess I became too lazy! Emulating old hardware is so much more convenient than dealing with real-world limitations like this. 😅

#RetroComputing #IBMPC #PATA #Win98SE #BIOS

Playing around with virt-manager in #opensuse. #win98se running. Still fiddle around to share an image or folder with the host linux.
#zipdrive will be the playaround, if I can't manage :)

@jhx My #OS stack
homelab: #debian , #openwrt
desktop: #win11 (#debian in #wsl2 )
laptop: #win11 (#debian in #wsl2 ), #debian
riscv5 laptop: #debian
arm pda: #debian
desktop2: #reactos , #haiku
powerbook g3: #macos 9.2.2, #rhapsody
libretto ct30: #msdos5 , #win311
libretto ct60: #msdos622 , #win95 , #redhat62
libretto ct70: #winnt4
thinkpad 535x: #os2warp4 , #win98se

Well, this proved to be more difficult than I had first assumed, but I've finally found an original, untouched bootdisk for the German version of Windows 98 SE.

Here's the KryoFlux image: https://archive.org/details/win98se_de_bootdisk_kryoflux

Have fun!

#Win98SE #Microsoft #Bootdisk #KryoFlux