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A long time ago I installed Windows 95 on a MS-DOS notebook without CD drive. I transferred (via serial cable) the Windows 95 *CAB files to a small primary partition on the hard disk. Then started the install from that partition.
IIRC DR DOS at that time had a serial communcation program like Laplink (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplink) or I used another serial communication program. Cannot remember exactly I think OpenBSD still supports installing from a primary DOS partion.
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The OpenBSD/i386 toolchain defaults to -march=i586 as of 2020-09-30. I forget if 6.8 was built with -march=i586 or not. But going forward, it definitely will not work on your machine, save for you compiling everything yourself with that change reverted.
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Thank you all for the suggestions, over the weekend I tried installing 6.8 using the file sets copied over to a FAT partition from another computer.
What I tried was: - Format 4GB sd card using MBR as the scheme and partition into a 3GB FAT32 partition and a 1GB FAT16 partition - Download the 6.8 ISO and copy over the "6.8" directory to the 1GB partition - Boot from floppy - During install, select the 3GB partition for OpenBSD and use auto config - Interestingly, the installer finds the file sets on the partition, but complains about "INSTALL.i386" not found, I continued anyways, and double-checked afterwards that the file was there - Install everything except the "x*" file sets After a few hours, the installer seemed to work and prompted to restart! However after restart, the machine hanged on boot with a blinking cursor and no other debug information. Typically when I don't have any bootable devices, I will see a prompt asking me to insert a floppy, and I didn't see that here, so I'm thinking that it at least tried to boot OpenBSD but failed to do so. I might try an older version later today. Last edited by lubert; 28th March 2021 at 04:45 PM. |
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