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Turned it off.

And remembered the Internet Archive archive.org

Maybe they had older drivers?

Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.

Found one that seemed promising.

Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.

Copied from CD to Windows98.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

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archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

And remembered the Internet Archive archive.org

Maybe they had older drivers?

Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.

Found one that seemed promising.

Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.

Copied from CD to Windows98.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

5/?

archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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So I tried the wifi dongle to connect to wireless. Probably too old to connect to modern wifi. Got an ethernet cord out. No ethernet port to connect.

Turned it off and on again, hoping Puppy Linux would detect it.

Nope.

Turned it off and on again, hoping Windows98 would detect it.

Yes!

But no driver!

Oh, fiddlesticks.

Maybe I could get a USB 3.5 floppy to USB reader? Or take it to a computer repair place?

Turned it off.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

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Long thread. 🧵

Found old 3.5 floppy 💾 disk.. 20 unused, 3 of my wife's used. One of them with old family recipes on it.

Then found an old laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 320cdt I'd forgotten I'd had. Windows98 and a version of Puppy GNU/Linux on it.

Floppy drive worked.

Oh, this should be easy.

Tried to burn a copy of her floppies to a CD. Kept failing. Copied to the hard drive in both OSes.

#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux

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Hey #linux community, I ask of you all yet again. I wanna know some fun, chaotic, weird, random Linux distros.

For now I've got #nixos, #vanillaos, #funtoo, #mxlinux, #qubes, #antix, & #puppylinux on a quick Google search.

It's been almost 2 years since I touched NixOS so might as well play around with it again.

I'll start googling up some more & I'm also gonna be looking on #distrowatch later but I gotta go eat my midnight snacks, lol.

Again, no #linuxfromscratch / #lfs. That's for laters!

I'm fucking confused as to how I broke my #PuppyLinux installation.

Regular boot - X starts, UI shows, but then "hangs". If I switch to tty1 and back to tty3, the UI is "blank", only background and taskbar shows, no reaction to clicks.

I managed to run startx -display :0 -- :0 vt3 from tty1 after I Ctrl-C'ed the X server. From the terminal appearing, I could run sh .xinitrc. And now the UI works.

Uhm????? What?
And why didn't startx run .xinitrc ?

"Meine" #Flüchtlinge können sich freuen, denn ich habe 5 Computer geschenkt bekommen, die ich privat wieder auf Vordermann bringen werde. Nach der Reinigung und Prüfung der Hardware werde ich mal ausprobieren, wie #PuppyLinux oder ggf. #antiXLinux läuft. Ansonsten versuche ich es mit #LinuxMint.
3 Flüchtis haben schon Interesse bekundet. 🤗 Mit den Computern können sie Schreibkram erledigen, sowie nach Jobs und Wohnungen suchen.