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1. kamme (kamme@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 21:53:39 UTC kamme

   Im bored, on-call and the kids aren’t here. So I’m doing what every sane and normal IT person would do:

   I plugged in my ancient asus 1005P eeepc and am using a usb floppy drive to install windows 95 floppy edition on it

   • kamme (kamme@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 21:53:35 UTC kamme

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     Getting really close!

     berrp repeated this.
   • kamme (kamme@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 21:53:35 UTC kamme

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     Okay, so sadly windows 95 won’t boot. The first issue is I have 1gb of memory and it can’t handle this huge amount. The fix is modifying the system.ini and limit the amount of memory pages. It certainly helped! But now it’s crashing a bit later. I found out it’s impossible to run windows 95 of a cpu this fast… But! There is a fast-cpu patch. Let’s hope this fixes it all 🤞

   • kamme (kamme@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 21:53:36 UTC kamme

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     Found the issue! When writing the images to floppy Linux uses disk caching and doesn’t actually flush it. Doing a ‘sudo sync’ after the dd command the cache is properly flushed and I’m now at disk 5 🥳

   • kamme (kamme@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 21:53:37 UTC kamme

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     Aaaah, this feels like the 90’s all over again! #windows95floppyedition

   • kamme (kamme@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 21:53:38 UTC kamme

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     This is going fine, actually

   • kamme (kamme@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 21:53:38 UTC kamme

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     Cool, the first disk is done, 20 more to go! #windows95floppyedition