I could do that sure. It's an interesting question. Should be perfectly possible to "install" the dvi dos by some other means than having the dvi do it, but I don't know if anyone has done it. But even without that, a full ram dump seems like it should be at least one sort of brute-force way to do it if nothing else.
But it seems like the stuff Steven Adolph picked apert here http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Adolph/DVI%20boot%20disk%20files should form a pretty good start on an installer, since he even has the IPLs not just the dos and basic. Actually, since I have a working setup the "normal" way, I'm in a position to try playing with those files and see if I can get them to install, dump the ram, and see if the result is the same as a dump of a normal install. Then again, maybe even having the IPL doesn't help that much here, because surely the IPL works from the assumption that the DVI is hooked up with the system disk loaded, and fetches things from it. We need an ipl that gets the stuff from a local file or from it's own self. If you had a replicate dvi that could deliver the stuff the way the ipl expects, then it could also inject the ipl the normal way in the first place. I'll try to make a full ram image tonight, along with some sort of directions how to restore it onto a m100. I've never used any full ram image backup/restore utilities other than what's built-in to REX and the bank-switching feature of QUAD and PG Design ram upgrade hardware. But I assume there is something. I guess TBACK is that? -- bkw On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see anything wrong with using modern intelligent peripherals; I > used a dedicated MS-DOS laptop to put the M100's display on an LCD TV over > the serial port. > > I guess the simplest would be for someone with a DVI to configure the M100 > and then dump RAM using TBACK or similar; you could then load that > configuration into your M100. > > Maybe Brian can do that since it sounds like his DVI is readily available; > if not I could do it but not for a while. > > m > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 5:13 PM > Subject: [M100] DVI duplication > > > > Hello, > > > > Despite that some disagree about using a periferal device, more > intelligent than the Model T itself, I do want to continue to see if I can > use a Raspberry Pi to act as such. > > > > In order to be able to investigate the possibility of the duplication of > the DVI video-out function via a Raspberry Pi, I'd need a way to load the > drivers to a Model T. So far, and AFAIK, there's only one way to do that: > with a DVI. I don't have one. Is there a way to emulate this, or another > way to inject the drivers in the Model T ? > > > > Mij jaag > > je niet zo > > gemakkelijk weg. > > Jan-80 > > VIVAQUA et HYDROBRU ont fusionné. > > VIVAQUA est votre société d'eau en Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. > > > > VIVAQUA en HYDROBRU zijn gefusioneerd. > > VIVAQUA is uw waterbedrijf in het Brusselse Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. > > > > [http://www.vivaqua.be/facebook.png] Rejoignez-nous sur Facebook - Volg > ons op Facebook > > > > DISCLAIMER > > Pensez à l'environnement, n'imprimez cette page et ses annexes que si > c'est nécessaire. Ce message électronique, y compris ses annexes, est > confidentiel et réservé à l’attention de son destinataire. Si vous n'êtes > pas le destinataire de ce message, merci de le détruire et d’en informer > l’expéditeur. Toute divulgation, copie ou utilisation de ce mail est dans > ce cas interdite. La sécurité et l'exactitude des transmissions de messages > électroniques ne peuvent être garanties. > > Denk aan het milieu; druk deze pagina en de bijlagen alleen af als het > nodig is. Dit e-mailbericht (inclusief zijn bijlagen) is vertrouwelijk en > is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als dit bericht niet voor u > bestemd is, wordt u verzocht het te wissen en de afzender te informeren. > Het is in dat geval niet toegestaan dit bericht te verspreiden, te kopiëren > of te gebruiken. We kunnen niet garanderen dat de gegevensoverdracht via > het internet veilig en nauwkeurig is. > > > -- bkw
