Re:Windows 96
by kijin on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:33PM
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I remember those floppies... The 8th disk was kinda finicky on older hardware. I think that's where the installer actually tried to switch from DOS to Windows mode. If it failed for whatever reason, you had to start again from the 1st disk.
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Funny.. my least favorite part of floppy installs of Debian is that it had exactly the opposite problem: reading floppies was hit-or-miss until _after_ disk 2 or 3.
Re:Windows 96
by thatwasunusual on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:36AM
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What happened the 2nd time you hit the 8th disk? I assume not much had changed, except the weather outside?
The weather might help, as well as the phase of the moon.
But you could be a little more scientific and try different parameters once you went back to disk 1. Maybe also remove some of the more questionable drivers or memory-saving tweaks from your DOS configuration while you were at it. Or perhaps it was just a flaky floppy drive that randomly flipped a bit somewhere.