i'm trying to install windows xp on a system that doesn't boot from usb and i have no cd-rs and it is a daunting task that has taken me over 2 days now

i managed to rebuild the boot.ini but now the bootstrapped xp install can't see the usb drive to install from ... so i'm once again booting from a really slow ubuntu 10 livecd to copy them off the flash drive to the partition... this is cursed

a pentium III with 512MB RAM is still all you need in 2023 to listen to soma fm

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@aquinton it's so cursed. empty folders started appearing in program files referencing software i didn't install like xerox and frontpage and you can't delete them. the firewall is disabled for like 10 seconds each boot. it's amazing how these things even still proliferate to this day without intentionally downloading anything

@aquinton i once had one of these malwares like this show up on a Windows 2000 install last year. only it was completely unconvincing because it disguised itself as a version of Firefox too new too run on 2000

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