Carcenomy wrote:If you want network cards that work in Windows 98, use known quantities - the older PCI Realtek combo cards with BNC and RJ45 connectors work great without additional drivers in 98 if I remember rightly, otherwise the 3Com Etherlink III is a fantastic and common option that works without additional drivers in machines right down to Windows 95.
bert wrote:Tezza,
May I make a suggestion.... use an alternative disk cloning tool. I use http://clonezilla.org/ for servers and desktops alike.
You boot this off a CD - it's a Linux Distribution, but don't let that put you off. It's a great tool that is fairly straight forward to use. It in fact will clone or image your machine (almost any partition type) to USB portable drive (save as an image on a 2TB drive) so you don't even need another machine.
tezza wrote:The reason for the Windows 98 machine is that it has a 360K drive in it. I use it to image from, and to create useable floppies for, various non-IBM-type early systems....those where the available imaging software needs straight DOS or at least anything pre NT/2000/XP.
bert wrote:A-ha I see the reason for your troubles now.Gosh I wouldn't know if XP even supported a 360K disk drive. If it did you could try running your cloning tool in DOS Box. I know it does at least know about 360K disks and has the ability to "mount" images as virtual disk drives (though only useful for FAT formatted disks).
Carcenomy wrote:I....Which works fine - it's usually Amiga ADFs, and by the time I finish picking what to transfer and walk back into the lair, it's done copying
tezza wrote:You would think it would be simple. All I wanted to do was to network a 98 machine to my Internet-enabled XP box up in the garage here. The Win 98 machine didn't require the Internet. But no. After two days I've finally done it. Not without considerable angst.
tezza wrote:First problem. The network card was too new and there wasn't any Win 98 drivers. Ok, replace that with a spare network card vintage 1995 or so. Hmmm...no drivers to be found anywhere.
Gibsaw wrote:It is simple, but I wouldn't have gone about it that way. I would install Win98 DOS only on a nice big FAT32 partition, and then install XP as a "dual boot" (let it think it's got all of Win98 installed)
tezza wrote:First problem. The network card was too new and there wasn't any Win 98 drivers. Ok, replace that with a spare network card vintage 1995 or so. Hmmm...no drivers to be found anywhere.
Gibsaw wrote:Really? Network cards are the one thing that you can usually get drivers for going all the way back to DOS. (because they need to support corporate imaging solutions which often PXE boot off a floppy image.)
What is the main chip on the card?
tezza wrote:Thought of that. Problem is the present XP machine which can run XP comfortably can only support ONE floppy drive on the board. I need two.
tezza wrote:Carcenomy wrote:I....Which works fine - it's usually Amiga ADFs, and by the time I finish picking what to transfer and walk back into the lair, it's done copying
Have you imaged Amiga disks? I'd be interested to know what program you used?
Carcenomy wrote:You CAN do real Amiga images to disk on a PC, but you require a custom controller - the Catweasel is the easiest option. Also gives you the ability to plug a real SID into your desktop PC too.
tezza wrote:Carcenomy wrote:You CAN do real Amiga images to disk on a PC, but you require a custom controller - the Catweasel is the easiest option. Also gives you the ability to plug a real SID into your desktop PC too.
I did some research and came to the same conclusion. However, I found Amiga Explorer works wonderfully for this purpose if I also use my 2 disk Amiga 500. You need to have the PC connected to it via Internet cable so it's not a direct write to a PC disk and more hassel to set up. It does solve the issue of getting images onto real Amiga disks though.
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