RickNel
Veteran Member
Sometimes hard to pick the right topic area for something - but here goes...
I have collected a Compaq P133 laptop with missing HDD. I've set it up to boot DOS from floppy, autoexec.bat loading a very small serial terminal emulator (ndrterm.exe). It's for dumb terminal use, accessing s-100 machines in daily use instead of firing up the VT100 every time.
I want to speed up the boot time by using SD card masquerading as HDD in an IDE adapter. The machine will never do anything but load the terminal program. SD card also would eliminate noise and vibration from boot and operation, closer to traditional dumb terminal.
Getting SD card to boot DOS seems a bit quirky, from what I read on various forums. One option seems to be setting the card up to boot in Puppy Linux, then reformatting to FAT12 and DOS from a DOS platform.
Has anyone successfully booted DOS from this kind of setup on a P1-vintage machine?
Rick
I have collected a Compaq P133 laptop with missing HDD. I've set it up to boot DOS from floppy, autoexec.bat loading a very small serial terminal emulator (ndrterm.exe). It's for dumb terminal use, accessing s-100 machines in daily use instead of firing up the VT100 every time.
I want to speed up the boot time by using SD card masquerading as HDD in an IDE adapter. The machine will never do anything but load the terminal program. SD card also would eliminate noise and vibration from boot and operation, closer to traditional dumb terminal.
Getting SD card to boot DOS seems a bit quirky, from what I read on various forums. One option seems to be setting the card up to boot in Puppy Linux, then reformatting to FAT12 and DOS from a DOS platform.
Has anyone successfully booted DOS from this kind of setup on a P1-vintage machine?
Rick