Mike13Foxtrot
Well-Known Member
So i had some old floppies and LS120 disks. Had 2 LS120 drives 1 IDE and 1 in an enclosure for Parallel Port. Had an old put together VIA Epia system, years ago it was kind of a bookshelf PC running Suse. So needed old 32 bit Distro. Grabbed Bodhi Linux got so far then said that it could not as not a true 86 architecture. So grabbed Debian Woody. That was a whole rabbit hole, got so far then when selecting Language it would not longer see the USB keyboard. Needed PS2. Have adapters somewhere. Gave it up for the night. The next day whipped into a St Vincent DePaul thrift store they usually have bins of old keyboards. Grabbed one for 4 bucks yet right next to the bin was an old HP Compaq desktop for 15. no HD but full system. Took that, setting up installed MX 32 bit Libretto, on an old 40GB IDE drive. Plugged in the LS120 into the IDE and poof.
1 out of ten floppies had data loss, none of the LS120 did. Ended up being a lot of shareware, from BBS days. So no real anything. But got the Parallel mounted but after 2 floppies it crapped out. You could hear the heads whining a bit too much. Was in a baggy with a 10 dollar price on it think I got it about 2006.
Take away from this is the fact of the current installs of Linux Distros. As to that Debian Woody is an absolute nightmare of commands to set up disks, set boot, set swap, mount them individually, then write the info, then begin format, but it made you test the disk before that. Was taking forever. Then got to a point and dropped the keyboard, thankfully. On the Compaq system with MX it was simple pretty much the same as current versions. Funny though as MX 21 is Debian based...
1 out of ten floppies had data loss, none of the LS120 did. Ended up being a lot of shareware, from BBS days. So no real anything. But got the Parallel mounted but after 2 floppies it crapped out. You could hear the heads whining a bit too much. Was in a baggy with a 10 dollar price on it think I got it about 2006.
Take away from this is the fact of the current installs of Linux Distros. As to that Debian Woody is an absolute nightmare of commands to set up disks, set boot, set swap, mount them individually, then write the info, then begin format, but it made you test the disk before that. Was taking forever. Then got to a point and dropped the keyboard, thankfully. On the Compaq system with MX it was simple pretty much the same as current versions. Funny though as MX 21 is Debian based...