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I only have those two options... What do I do
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@nina_kali_nina how does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD??
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@nina_kali_nina I'm missing the option "the one that you prefer".
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@nina_kali_nina What kind of saw level PC shit is this? Blink twice if you need…
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@hp the computer is 30 years old and it is NOT a PC
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@[email protected] Out of those I'd go with the Linux 2.4, but I&#39…
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@zakalwe no bad experience with Linux?:)
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@nina_kali_nina I should have said "computer" it not being a PC was p…
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@nina_kali_nina oooh, that's hard. Would Compiz make an appearance with tho…
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@[email protected] Well, I've tried a few Linux distributions I ende…
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@hp It is a NEC PC98 with a Pentium processor
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@nina_kali_nina smells like pc-98, can help with linux (has been a while though…
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@evv42 bingo :) I'll go with PC98
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@pak0st the video is Cirrus Logic-based, Compiz would probably be running at 0 …
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@nina_kali_nina Dual boot, obviously.
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@nina_kali_nina oh, super neat!
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@hp one of those fun "not quite PC" machines that can run Windows 95,…
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(this is not an IBM PC compatible)
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@nina_kali_nina this is so cool!
Post #AyXbMtPatAmo0yZOEK by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina what is this? pc-98?
Post #AyXbTDJ5peVPSKXjWK by [email protected]
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@d6 @nina_kali_nina Yup
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Setting up the screen capturing rig...
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@d6 yep!
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@nina_kali_nina It's funny that the Japanese "My Computer" is spe…
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@nina_kali_nina What do you use for screen capture?
Post #AyXc2drl4t3jxleQQy by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina do you do OSSC into hdmi capture or similar, too?
Post #AyXc2dzCdD0wKr8N2O by [email protected]
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@wyatt VGA to HDMI no OSSC
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If only I had more than one floppy disk
Post #AyXcR5hZElgjFAXh1U by [email protected]
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An arm (aarch64) device to record floppies for i386
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@jernej__s "Extron RGB-HDMI 300 A" and HDMI-USB webcam that probably …
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@nina_kali_nina very, very cool! Jealous!
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@khalidabuhakmeh It also has an "expuro--ra" (almost "expuro-sho…
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2/5 floppies fed into the plastic floppy monster
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@nina_kali_nina oh wow loading the f *kernel* floppy by floppy is something els…
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@nina_kali_nina awesome, good luck! 😎
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Kernel is loading
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I KNEW IT, I'm glad I did not rewrite the boot floppy
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It's time to use the "Memory file system floppy" aka the boot roo…
Post #AyXdaAasW9tqycJ4wS by [email protected]
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@hp :3 at least you can enjoy the screenshots of me installing FreeBSD on it. …
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The final floppy!
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@nina_kali_nina Looking forward to it! Particularly trying to get X to run on a…
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FreeBSD is so coooooool. And it only took 23 minutes to boot
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I'm glad to have GenuineIntel here on this PC98. Will it or will it not....…
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@nina_kali_nina love the 70s font !
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FreeBSD 8 installer on PC9821: Japan is chosen by default, because of course it…
Post #AyXdyKDyMZf9nN6wDI by [email protected]
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I feel like I need to read the docs before installing, huh
Post #AyXe1FOsksw7hcbhqa by [email protected]
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@hp it's not so ancient, it's 2013
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Time to partition the hard drive, ideally without destroying Windows 95
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Fdisk is so user-friendly! "Type a magic number, btw 37218 means DOS, good…
Post #AyXeY2kSodAm1HL9Em by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina I'm sorry... When did `fdisk` get a UI?
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@nina_kali_nina other popular 16 bit unsigned numbers are 65535, 32768, and 8.
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@nina_kali_nina it's called "fdisk" because it f's up your di…
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Now, a difficult question: do I need a bootloader? PC98 doesn't boot the sa…
Post #AyXeybDRI0NIRnYWvI by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina At least it told you one of the likely values.
Post #AyXf2ro5XuYT3ujWhU by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina Type the letter from the 12th word on page 7 of the manual
Post #AyXf3tP95idAJ5YVhw by [email protected]
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@rotopenguin I'm laughing way too much :D thanks
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Now, Disklabel editor - creating partitions for the OS. Sensible defaults, no n…
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Imagine installing your OS from USB1, or, better still, an MS-DOS partition. Bu…
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Last Chance! Are you SURE you want to continue the installation? (FreeBSD on PC…
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The installer launched "'emergency holographic shell" and started…
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@nina_kali_nina do it!
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@nina_kali_nina Seems slow to boot. I don't remember FreeBSD 4.3 on a 486 t…
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"Extracting base into / from CD" noises
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@drj that's because five floppies, including recording the floppies, includ…
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225 kilobytes per second! This CD is not very fast (2x?)
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@nina_kali_nina right, right. Don't remember installing FreeBSD 4.3 but it …
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This "GENERIC" thing is ~50 megabytes. It is not just the kernel, it …
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@drj your memory is correct; FreeBSD 4.3 and even 5 still uses only 3 floppies,…
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@nina_kali_nina wait, what?
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One thing is to install FreeBSD and another is to boot into your installed syst…
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@nina_kali_nina 8 seems like an inconceivably high FreeBSD number for me :)
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@nina_kali_nina floppy is such a goofy word.like joystick.i am so glad those ti…
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You have a choice of keymaps: PC-98x1 and PC-98x1 (FreeBSD on PC-98)
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As it happens, the mouse cursor was NOT moving (hint: click "auto, auto, a…
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@pixelworship what :)
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@k @nina_kali_nina https://makoto.sakamoto.pl/anime/kde2.patch
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@elly @nina_kali_nina no fucking way
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@drj have you heard about the 15?
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@401matthall @nina_kali_nina I feel like that's just an alias to cfdisk or …
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Would you like to browse the collection now? (FreeBSD 8 on PC-98)... the comput…
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Time to create a user
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You can't make me, computer. I have hands that can disconnect the power plug
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@nina_kali_nina Does <Enter> still work as password in this release?
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@nina_kali_nina Thanks for this trip through memory lane, must be 20-ish years …
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It seems the packages for PC-98 are actually available on the i386 CD. Japanese…
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@nina_kali_nina libcurses we have at home
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@nina_kali_nina all the previous dialogs looked fine, but this one is just so w…
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@domi pfft :D
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@Toasterson no idea... sorry
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@matthijskooijman you're welcome!
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Time to see if FreeBSD installer killed my file system, I guess
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@nina_kali_nina I drink. It's not for everybody I admit, but decisiones lik…
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wooooo
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Mwa-ha-ha, a new boot manager! And it looks OKAY?!
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@zerodogg Ok, I will remind you on Thursday Sep 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM UTC.
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@nina_kali_nina 'freebsd on pc-98" makes my head spin
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Okay, Windows 95 still boots, at the very least.
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@pixelworship this is FreeBSD 8.4, the last version with PC-98 supported as &qu…
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Booting FreeBSD on PC-98 from the hard driver for the first time ever
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@nina_kali_nina Fun, so PC98 had a 16-colour Windows 95 boot screen?
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Oh no. I guess I need to record the video of the screen to capture the moment i…
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@jernej__s 640x400 in 16 colours is native video mode for PC-98
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@nina_kali_nina still sounds like magic to me. somebody once said "Unix on…
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"Tier 1 support" they say
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@nina_kali_nina It's been a while but I think I preferred GNOME prior to KD…
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@nina_kali_nina that reminds me of when I was the "owner" of the JetE…
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@pixelworship there are far weirder machines with Unix :) But yeah, it's ve…
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Single-user mode actually boots, yay. But we need to find out what makes the ke…
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@nina_kali_nina maybe there's a way to manually assign resources/addresses/…
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@wyatt it's a UNIX system, we can figure out something, I'm sure
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@nina_kali_nina very. wish I could be bothered more than observing from a dista…
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@nina_kali_nina oh no. (but your desktop background made up for it)
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Figuring out what does not work. It's not the fs, despite fs being not clea…
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@drj this is one of the official Microsoft Windows 95 wallpapers for PC-98 vers…
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And initrandom is not happy with `sysctl -a` at https://github.com/freebsd/free…
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Booting booting booting... FreeBSD 8.4 on PC-98!(but do not run `sysctl -a`, it…
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@nina_kali_nina GENERIC kernel too bloaty. bad for digestion.
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@drj even so, vmstat reports 24M free out of 64 total (8.5M active, 6.9M inacti…
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Turns out, the binary packages were last supplied with FreeBSD/pc98 8.2; 8.4 on…
Post #AyXpA3cb16k7H0QQW8 by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_ninaGreat thread as usual!
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oops, broke the thread, cont in https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/1152616786917…
Post #AyXw6pSntmKuApFjFo by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina it's still freebsd at the end of the day
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@[email protected] hey, at least you have a usable console 😉The last…
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@nina_kali_nina plug n' pray.interesting that it's calling it ISA; gues…
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@domi @nina_kali_nina looks a lot more usable than the fdisk trainwreck
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@domi @nina_kali_nina but fdisk is famously burning garbage even on contemporar…
Post #AyXwQyLuYlxNX8dMPo by [email protected]
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@piggo @nina_kali_nina it’s interesting tho. linux fdisk is a CLI, yet this o…
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@piggo @nina_kali_nina as an aside, I highly recommend cfdisk on lunix systems.…
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@domi @nina_kali_nina if possible I install xorg into the live session and use …
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@vxo @nina_kali_nina Ooooooooh.
Post #AyY0Pn17cP6Nu9bL6G by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina デイスク
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@zerodogg Here is your reminder!
Post #AyYcutT3TwSL96vRBo by [email protected]
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@nina_kali_nina it’s a mere reflection of its peers
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@nina_kali_nina you have _how much_ RAM?It was more intended as a comment about…
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@rk ディスク though~
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@drj ha ha yes! I suspect PC98 kernel has less bloat because the platform is fa…
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@nina_kali_nina I enjoyed the thread! Very cool! Thanks for sharing
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