Didn't know that about windows, I've never done this kind of thing before, I've only really run 3.0/3.1 and '98. I did use XP for about six weeks on HP_Mini before it did a spectacular crash and burn. After a week long horror story working with HP's offshore tech support trying to get it back upl using the restore CD and elevating the case all the way back to California, it still wouldn't work. I'd been booting it off a full-on ubuntu desktop CD during that week, so I installed the NetBook remix and haven't had a problem with ubuntu for four and a half years running now.
Doing a clean install of '98 or XP is the third thing on my list for this setup. Those two bookend OS support for the ROM burner. This morning I'm reinstalling this MoBo in a more civilized case that even has a front bezel and everything! This is quite likely the case from which I'd removed this MoBo and the MIA Win95 HDD. *****
I'll be setting up one of the removable drive bays to make swapping HDDs a snap in my search for the fabled Win95 drive. This week I'll be installing ubuntu on another drive the carrier instead of messing around with XP password avoidance or Win95 for anything other than diagnostics and possible future gameplay. I don't expect ubuntu to run very quickly, if at all, on this board, but it may give me a chance to play around with the new removable SCSI drive bays. A fast SCSI II controller came with my Nikon CoolScan and one of the collection of little Ultra SCSI server drives and adapters should make that interesting. I've got an AGP VidCard or two and a stack of dual-head PCI VidCards to test as well.
This may becoming a fairly palatable way to introduce a black sheep WinPC ROM hacking station into the still growing Mac fold.
***** I've liberated three extra wide (front panel on the right) cases to match the stack Radius 8100/xxx front bezels I bought from macmetex. This wild one is slated to become a PEx sleeper in 81/110 clothing when and if I get the ROM SIMM a comrade is working on to boot my board. The first case I got is already halfway to becoming a wild, internally illuminated, clear cased Radius 81/110 ubuntu GIMPbox. The generic clone I'll be installing this board in will be the wildest hack of the three if all works out. When finished, these three and the actual 81/110/G3 will be the supports for the first two levels of a future Radius display/workstation . . .
. . . one day, Finagle willing. ;D
Doing a clean install of '98 or XP is the third thing on my list for this setup. Those two bookend OS support for the ROM burner. This morning I'm reinstalling this MoBo in a more civilized case that even has a front bezel and everything! This is quite likely the case from which I'd removed this MoBo and the MIA Win95 HDD. *****
I'll be setting up one of the removable drive bays to make swapping HDDs a snap in my search for the fabled Win95 drive. This week I'll be installing ubuntu on another drive the carrier instead of messing around with XP password avoidance or Win95 for anything other than diagnostics and possible future gameplay. I don't expect ubuntu to run very quickly, if at all, on this board, but it may give me a chance to play around with the new removable SCSI drive bays. A fast SCSI II controller came with my Nikon CoolScan and one of the collection of little Ultra SCSI server drives and adapters should make that interesting. I've got an AGP VidCard or two and a stack of dual-head PCI VidCards to test as well.
This may becoming a fairly palatable way to introduce a black sheep WinPC ROM hacking station into the still growing Mac fold.
***** I've liberated three extra wide (front panel on the right) cases to match the stack Radius 8100/xxx front bezels I bought from macmetex. This wild one is slated to become a PEx sleeper in 81/110 clothing when and if I get the ROM SIMM a comrade is working on to boot my board. The first case I got is already halfway to becoming a wild, internally illuminated, clear cased Radius 81/110 ubuntu GIMPbox. The generic clone I'll be installing this board in will be the wildest hack of the three if all works out. When finished, these three and the actual 81/110/G3 will be the supports for the first two levels of a future Radius display/workstation . . .
. . . one day, Finagle willing. ;D