I've been wanting a computer running CP/M for a long time. I was planning on running CP/M ver 3.0 on something but ended up with CP/M -86 because it was just so easy.
Found a 360k CP/M-86 for the IBM pc ver 1.1 boot disc.
As it works just fine on a 8088 XT clone mb with 256k ram running off a floppy I decided to install it on a hard drive.
System specs:
Beltron 8088 XT clone mb with 256k ram
Unknown IBM compatiable floppy controller
WD XT MFM controller with a 20mb microscience hard drive out of my compaq deskpro
Tandon "Dual Video" video card
Generic AT case with power supply.
360k floppy drive
So basicly the junk I had laying around.
The boot disc I used I found on the net somewheres , cpm86-bt.zip is the name of the file.
This boot disk loads a ram disk on bootup. I ended up entering setup.com and disabling it and saving the change to the floppy.
Next I dug out a Dos 3.31 boot disk and used fdisk to delete all the partitions.
Then I rebooted using my CP/M-86 boot floppy.
I next ran the hdmaint command and created a 8 mb partition on the 20mb hard disk.
Next I set the partition bootable and exited out of the hdmaint program.
Now I just used pip to copy all the files over from the floppy to the hard drive and rebooted into CP/M
And thats was it !!
I never realized it would be so easy!!
The boot disk I used does not have all the files of a full install , files also found somewhere on the net , so I still need to copy them over from my Win 98 pc running 22disk.
One word of advice , DO NOT run 22disk in a dos window on windows 98..........I went to format a floppy to CP/M and it made the floppy drive make a nasty clankgrrrrrruuuuhhhuuuuurrrrruuuuummmmm noise and then errored out. Rebooted into msdos mode and it works fine.
Found a 360k CP/M-86 for the IBM pc ver 1.1 boot disc.
As it works just fine on a 8088 XT clone mb with 256k ram running off a floppy I decided to install it on a hard drive.
System specs:
Beltron 8088 XT clone mb with 256k ram
Unknown IBM compatiable floppy controller
WD XT MFM controller with a 20mb microscience hard drive out of my compaq deskpro
Tandon "Dual Video" video card
Generic AT case with power supply.
360k floppy drive
So basicly the junk I had laying around.
The boot disc I used I found on the net somewheres , cpm86-bt.zip is the name of the file.
This boot disk loads a ram disk on bootup. I ended up entering setup.com and disabling it and saving the change to the floppy.
Next I dug out a Dos 3.31 boot disk and used fdisk to delete all the partitions.
Then I rebooted using my CP/M-86 boot floppy.
I next ran the hdmaint command and created a 8 mb partition on the 20mb hard disk.
Next I set the partition bootable and exited out of the hdmaint program.
Now I just used pip to copy all the files over from the floppy to the hard drive and rebooted into CP/M
And thats was it !!
I never realized it would be so easy!!
The boot disk I used does not have all the files of a full install , files also found somewhere on the net , so I still need to copy them over from my Win 98 pc running 22disk.
One word of advice , DO NOT run 22disk in a dos window on windows 98..........I went to format a floppy to CP/M and it made the floppy drive make a nasty clankgrrrrrruuuuhhhuuuuurrrrruuuuummmmm noise and then errored out. Rebooted into msdos mode and it works fine.
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