so if you get delayed providing the requested Disk 2 of DOS 6.22 because your USB drive died, and it has to wait for over 5 minutes... the drive will spin down and not come back up.
so the installer will read the files off the drive and then completely fail to write them to the disk! and you have to start over again!
I fixed this setting in the BIOS but the CMOS battery is dead which means if you leave it powered off for more than like 30 seconds, it resets all the values and turns it back on for you
alice! hey alice. future alice listen to me: when you do set up the CF to 44pin thing, partition and format it using the DOS disk in the laptop, then remove it again connect it to your laptop and just copy over windows 98 or whatever. don't deal with serial or floppies
@foone ha ha ha, if i had a nickel for every time I've ran into this problem. (my main Win9x pc doesn't have floppy or cd and is a pain in the ass to reinstall every time cuz i need to use my IODD)
