Plop sounds good :) I use a floppy on my old 486 to allow me to boot
from CD (boots both the legacy and the live freedos cd)
Den 2022-12-15 kl. 12:12, skrev Liam Proven:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 at 20:39, Walter Vermeir<s...@deds.nl> wrote:
My new old laptop has 32mb RAM. KolibriOS needs 8mb RAM. Looks
interesting. But also did not boot.
OK, hang on.
You did not give us much info at the beginning.
32 *MB* RAM? Megabytes?
That is a very old laptop, then. As in around 25 years old?
The bios settings has only the listing to change the boot sequence order
between FDD and HDD.
It does not have support for booting from a CD?
Then it is vintage kit, and no, I don't think anything in the gigabyte
range will work.
DOS-era machines had many limitations on IDE disk support, and
depending on age, the biggest disk they will support could be 512MB
(½GB), 1GB, 2GB, or maybe for later ones (e.g. PowerMac G3), 8GB.
32GB is well over all of those and it's much much too big.
Secondly, how are you attaching an SD card to a DOS-era machine with
32MB of RAM? That is before SD existed. It's mostly before USB too --
maybe USB 1 at best.
If you want to boot a DOS-era machine from removable mass storage, try
the PLOP boot manager.
https://www.plop.at/
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