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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Early version of Floppy Demo
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:07:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b0366c2-f6c9-47da-8f0e-ccf2ffd28670@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e90a7204-c8af-e27b-1213-f66e2be5d3d4@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Will Senn wrote:
> Interestingly enough, I found an old 4 floppy set of vd's in the same folder with the demo image. It looks like they are Nov 1995 (I apparently winimaged them from floppies back then). When I boot disk 1, it complains about not having an mbr partition and bails. I'm guessing it's expecting some OS and hard disk to be present to install to. 

Huh! You noticed them just a little sooner than I did. Reading betweent he lines of the README, it looks like they were being very careful about MBR matters. I think a hard disk image with an empty MBR should be enough. 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-23 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-23 16:57 will.senn
2020-07-23 17:50 ` [9fans] " Skip Tavakkolian
2020-07-23 19:52   ` will.senn
2020-07-23 20:29   ` Ethan Gardener
2020-07-23 21:33     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-07-23 21:59       ` Will Senn
2020-07-23 22:07         ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2020-07-23 22:01       ` Ethan Gardener

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