What I personnaly did is to install a full (but light) Windows95 system on
an IomegaZip 100 disquette, plus the regular Prime95 v19.
So now I only need a motherboard, an internal zip drive and some little
parts to make a Prime Machine. You have to set the BIOS to boot on Zip (or
LS120).
It works perfectly, even if it may be sometimes tricky to make a Zip a
system drive (and the only drive of the machine).
It's also easy for communicating with PrimeNet : shutdown your "Zip"
Windows, take the Zip disquette, put it on your machine with a modem or so,
actualize your Prime data and put the Zip disquette back to its machine,
boot. This can be done every 3 month or so.
Sylvain Perez
The guy who's late updating the french Gimps site ...
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De: Kevin Sexton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: mercredi 26 janvier 2000 07:01
A: Mersenne List
Objet: Mersenne: small OS setup for mprime
Did anyone figure out a simple way to run mprime from a
floppy, or small partition? I want to search for primes on a
second computer, but the total hard drive space is 650MB,
and I have and want to keep dos, and don't have windows of
any kind installed.
If I figure out how to install it I will add an LS-120
drive.
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