VERAULT
Veteran Member
So its been years since I did this and I cant find my original floppies. I agreed to make some compaq setup floppies for another member since I needed some for myself anyway.
I searched far and wide but all the old links were dead (did HP take down thier FTP?) The only viable downloads I found for the compaq setup softpaq's were here towards the middle of the page: http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html
SP0316.exe and SP0308.exe From what I remember 316 is 360KB 5.26" and 308 is 720KB 3.5"
Anyway I unzipped the files to the hard drive (XTIDE) of my 5160. My 5160 has a univeral (from the late 80's) floppy controller which supports low and high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives.
I ran the executable and I would get to the screen which allows you to choose the full set of 2 or individual disks. Then it would give the same error over and over stating I didnt have a compatible drive in the machine.
I pulled the Universal floppy controller and used the oldschool low density ibm controller with full height 360kb drive (all known good). same error.
I pulled out my early 5150 machine I am working on, on another thread. Same error.
I copied the files over to my compaq portable 1 which has a working 30mb MFM HDD,... SAME ERROR!
What am I doing wrong? Is the file corrupted? Its been many years since I have made these disks from the softpaq so maybe I am not remembering a step.
I searched far and wide but all the old links were dead (did HP take down thier FTP?) The only viable downloads I found for the compaq setup softpaq's were here towards the middle of the page: http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html
SP0316.exe and SP0308.exe From what I remember 316 is 360KB 5.26" and 308 is 720KB 3.5"
Anyway I unzipped the files to the hard drive (XTIDE) of my 5160. My 5160 has a univeral (from the late 80's) floppy controller which supports low and high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives.
I ran the executable and I would get to the screen which allows you to choose the full set of 2 or individual disks. Then it would give the same error over and over stating I didnt have a compatible drive in the machine.
I pulled the Universal floppy controller and used the oldschool low density ibm controller with full height 360kb drive (all known good). same error.
I pulled out my early 5150 machine I am working on, on another thread. Same error.
I copied the files over to my compaq portable 1 which has a working 30mb MFM HDD,... SAME ERROR!
What am I doing wrong? Is the file corrupted? Its been many years since I have made these disks from the softpaq so maybe I am not remembering a step.