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Anonymous

07/26/24(Fri)05:48:12 No.101578236

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Anonymous 07/26/24(Fri)05:48:12 No.101578236 Archived

I don't have a diskette drive.
How can I prepare ms-dos 6.22 to run iflash.exe(pentium 2 era) (Intel flashing utility).
Afaik I simply can't run the utility from windows nor ms-dos 8.0 mode.
But I got no clue what drivers to strip from the ms-dos nor how to disable highmem.

Anonymous
07/26/24(Fri)06:16:21 No.101578410

Anonymous 07/26/24(Fri)06:16:21 No.101578410

>>101578236
>I don't have a diskette drive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash

compact flash uses IDE as communication protocol.
so you could get a compact flash card reader to larp as diskette drive

for the rest? i have no clue.
>But I got no clue what drivers to strip from the ms-dos nor how to disable highmem.
why the fuck would you wanna do that?

Anonymous
07/26/24(Fri)06:19:59 No.101578432

Anonymous 07/26/24(Fri)06:19:59 No.101578432

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>>101578410
Idk people told me the iflash utility will go kaboom if I don't

Anonymous
07/26/24(Fri)06:22:56 No.101578452

Anonymous 07/26/24(Fri)06:22:56 No.101578452

>>101578432
Just get an image of the win 9x setup diskette
Delete the line in config.sys to disable himem

Anonymous
07/26/24(Fri)06:46:48 No.101578626

Anonymous 07/26/24(Fri)06:46:48 No.101578626

>>101578432
>>101578410
>himem disables msdos mem extension beyond 1MB
it must be a compatibility thing
i bet the flash utility runs on the barest of metals
and was written for something very old, something thats incapable of handling more than 1MB of memory
maybe it was an ibm pc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_memory_area

were complaining about complexity today but our predecessors dealt with some pretty wild shit