When was the last time you installed a Classic OS (say anything pre 2001) from scratch?
@NanoRaptor last year, when I was messing around with my Pentium and beige G3 systems, before I had to sell them for the move overseas.
@NanoRaptor do emulators count? the last time I installed win98 was probably circa 98, win7 was the one I used the most
About a year and a half back, when I installed Slackware 3.0 on a QEMU image.
(Blog post: http://blit.ca/blog/ghewkoqmq9/Low-effort_Retrocomputing.html)
@NanoRaptor i installed mandrake linux on a pentium machine about a week ago for fun. it was way easier than any other linux of the era to install
@NanoRaptor Late last year I did a clean install of Mac OS 9 on my G4 Mini. In March of this year I installed it on my PowerBook G3 “Kanga”. I don’t think installing Haiku on a Lenovo ThinkPad T400S counts, but I did that, too :D
@NanoRaptor At least 20 years ago. I don't play around with obsolete systems much. My current oldest is a 2003 Power Mac G5 dual processor, my digital audio workstation, running Mac OS 10.5.x.
@NanoRaptor Multics on an emulator last fall?
SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun-3/280 about two years ago.
Older than that, we're generally booting off old tapes or disk images. I got a PDP-11 running late 70s Unix is few years ago, but I didn't go through the install procedure. (I DID have to hunt down and revert some changes the previous owner made to a device driver though!)
@NanoRaptor I installed Windows 98 into 86Box about a month ago.
Also re-installed XP on some retro gaming laptops recently. I do need to rebuild my 486 Win 3.1 at some stage as well.
@NanoRaptor 2020, installed Windows 98 (Not SE) from original recovery media on my old K6-2 400. It took lockdown to give me the patience.
@NanoRaptor I went on a marathon and installed all the OSes for every computer core on my MiSTer! AmigaOS is always fun to install and customize, but I should do more with my Macintosh System 7 and ST GEM installs
@NanoRaptor when I got my PiDP-11... Maybe 2022 around Christmas. Maybe not, I'm terrible with calendar time.
@NanoRaptor Not sure if this counts, but I installed Windows 98 in Dosbox on my Pi the other day. Blows my mind that this can work.
Nice trip down memory lane, I had forgotten all the install screens!
@NanoRaptor a couple of years ago when I built my Win98 rig. Probably needs a reinstall though so I’ll be doing a new Win98SE install at some point
@NanoRaptor does editing the config.sys yet again count, because DOS is never actually done being installed?
@NanoRaptor I installed Win '98 a little voer a year ago, on actual vintage hardware. (My original PC gaming rig, in fact, and for gaming - though I haven't used it much since doing it.)
And a Win2K VM like... uh... late last fall or early last winter, depending upon how you look at it. I wanted to test something where that was relevant.
Attempted to install one #RedHat Linux from 1997 onto a VM recently. Didn't get very far.
Other than that, System 6.0.8 on Mini vMac a few years back.
@NanoRaptor Fairly recently, but the most memorable was throwing Windows NT 4 on an old system in a burst of weird nostalgia, and having it dissipate really quickly at the boot floppies created in reverse order, Ali Baba and the forty service packs and absolute lack of PnP, and having to reboot after changing a network interface configuration.
Oh and how if you install anything, chances are you must reinstall all service packs in order, too.
@NanoRaptor I’ve recently installed WfW 3.11 to run Lotus AmiPro 3 to open some documents from 1994.
@NanoRaptor I installed Mac OS 9.2 on my eMac a couple of years ago, otherwise it would’ve been before that when I installed 7.5 on my SE/30.
@NanoRaptor when I replaced the hard drive in my Pentium 3 with a 9.1 GB SCSI drive. So … three months ago?
@NanoRaptor real hardware? Probably 2000.
Emulated? Did MS-DOS 5.0 and 6.22 on a couple of 86Box machines last week. Even set up a boot menu on the latter so I could choose between EMS and no EMS configurations!
@NanoRaptor win95, yesterday. Going to be using Microsoft Personal Web Server to make getting things to and from my Newton PDA easier than using win3.1 and FTP
@NanoRaptor 2018 or 19, while I was still at a university, one of my friends from another dept has shown me educational software from ~1995 they had to use on one of their courses. It ran on Windows 10, but just barely, kept crashing all the time and the UI was badly broken (software was in Polish, required classic ASCII encoding page setup, some draw calls broke). So I packaged it with portable DOSBox + Win3.11 into a Zip file, and it worked like a charm. They kept using it for a few years.
@NanoRaptor about a year ago for Windows 98. MS-DOS 6.22 too and yes, it has a setup binary to copy the contents of all 3 floppies to C:\DOS.
I "installed" CP/M a few months ago but that's really just copying an image to a floppy.
@NanoRaptor: Not pre 2001, but close: At the Vintage Computer Festival Europe a few years ago, I installed Debian 3.0 Woody (released July 2002) on a Thinkpad 760XD because it neither could boot from CD-ROM nor from USB (it doesn't even have USB without PCMCIA-to-USB adaptor) because I wanted to get the most recent possible Debian release (Debian 8.0 Jessie as it was the last Debian release supporting Pentium I 😭) on it and Woody was the last release that supported installation from floppies.
@NanoRaptor Installed NeXTSTEP 3.3 in a virtual machine earlier this year so I could pull the contents off floppy disks from my college days. That was not fun but it worked!
@NanoRaptor In 2005-2006 I had a job that insisted on sticking with OS 9, only running OS X on an iMac connected to a scanner that didn’t support the older OS.
@NanoRaptor Only just installed Windows 98 the other day, was shoving floppy disks for 7.5(?) in to my SE/30 a few months ago.
@NanoRaptor it has been quite a while, I keep playing with computers that don’t have hard drives.
Oh no, scratch that. I was working on doing an install from scratch of System 7 for the Dockerized Apple Internet Router project to try to minimize the image size.
@NanoRaptor About two years ago I installed A/UX from scratch on an emulated Quadra 800, fulfilling a lifelong dream. I've installed MacOS 8.1 on a couple more emulated Quadras since then, most recently about four months ago, but that's not as cool.
@NanoRaptor I have a whole YouTube playlist in preparation for installing MS-DOS (probably China DOS Union, long story) on my RackMacPro7,1
@NanoRaptor A month ago i installed a modern version of beos (haikuos) on an old pc.
But no pre 2001 oses since 2001 😂