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SGT:

--- Quote from: Mr. Three on December 08, 2007, 09:30:26 pm ---So I guess my question is, ultimately, can someone suggest a site where I can download a working operating system that will run on this dinosaur and allow me to run Mame32 and Mala? That's all I want to do. Just that. Nothing else.

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Dude!  Do you want a miracle?  Unless you are willing to do one of the following, that's what it is going to take.  Until you resolve the boot issue you can download all the O/Ses in the world but it's not going to help

1) TRY swapping out the CD DRIVE....or
2) You've got a computer that you use to post here with, BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE A BOOT DISKETTE???  Is it a laptop?  Do you not know anyone that has a computer that you can hook a floppy drive up to and make a boot diskette?
3) Take the hard drive out and have someone image it for you.

crummy:

--- Quote from: Mr. Three on December 08, 2007, 09:23:27 pm ---Only one of the installer disks asks me to press any key to boot from CD, but no amount of key pressing does anything.
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Excuse me for skipping through the thread, but you don't happen to be using a USB keyboard, do you?

Mr. Three:
Heh, a miracle. That would be an acceptable solution.

I post here wondering if anyone has a similar situation, that's all. I wanted opinions. It helps to have a fresh perspective on a problem if you're looking too closely at it, which I think I am somehow. I hoped that there was something which, in my frustration, I was overlooking.

Not a USB keyboard, but the IPAC is USB (and currently disconnected). Regular keyboard.

So I can just jam this floppy drive from like 1995 into my Intel D975XBX board and it will actually work?

crummy:

--- Quote from: Mr. Three on December 08, 2007, 10:13:15 pm ---So I can just jam this floppy drive from like 1995 into my Intel

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Yeah, floppy tech hasn't changed much in the last decade :P

loadman:

--- Quote from: crummy on December 08, 2007, 10:26:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mr. Three on December 08, 2007, 10:13:15 pm ---So I can just jam this floppy drive from like 1995 into my Intel

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Yeah, floppy tech hasn't changed much in the last decade :P

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I second that.  You  just need a floppy type cable. Give it a whirl. And once connected ensure that the floppy is enable in bios as a bootable source

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