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| author | Andreas Baumann <mail@andreasbaumann.cc> | 2022-11-26 16:26:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Andreas Baumann <mail@andreasbaumann.cc> | 2022-11-26 16:26:48 +0100 |
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updated unisys blog entry
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diff --git a/content/blog/retro-computing-unisys.md b/content/blog/retro-computing-unisys.md index 5f74253..28ee60d 100644 --- a/content/blog/retro-computing-unisys.md +++ b/content/blog/retro-computing-unisys.md @@ -106,6 +106,17 @@ The installation process has to be something over iPXE, as a 1.44MB floppy really doesn't hold a kernel 4.15.x anymore. iPXE itself will need some patching for i486 too. +### Update 26.11.2022 + +Had to set up the machine again, either the SD card died or my Linux experiments +nuked the MBR. Found [mTCP](http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/) to be a very nice +alternative networking package, also having a FTP and HTTP server. + +Also the sentence about not being able to boot a modern Linux from floppy is wrong. +In the meantime I can boot it with the +[Archlinux32 i486 Floppy](https://git.archlinux32.org/archi486/tree/floppy), just the +NEx000 drivers in modern kernels are currently quite misbehaving somehow. + ## Videos and Links * LGR: [My Smallest 486 Desktop PC: Unisys CWD-4002](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgmzmw6_qE) @@ -135,6 +146,9 @@ patching for i486 too. * [DOS drivers for the NE2000](http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm), the NE2000.EXE package driver * [Vibra 16 Soundblaster drivers on Vogons.org](http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=33&menustate=0) +### DOS software +* http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/wget/: wget for DOS + ### Windows 3.1 drivers * [Cirrus Logic GD5424](http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=47) |