He saved the USB drive. On it, he created a single text file: I_AM_THE_KEY_TO_THE_PAST.txt . Then he went to wash the thermal paste off his hands, a king of a forgotten kingdom.
Leo was determined. The CNC’s proprietary control software cost more than a used car, and it only ran on Windows 2000. He had one afternoon to resurrect the dinosaur. install windows 2000 from usb
He partitioned a 2GB USB stick (anything larger confused the old BIOS). He installed Grub4Dos to the master boot record. Then, he copied the entire Windows 2000 CD contents to a folder named WIN2000 on the drive. He edited menu.lst : He saved the USB drive
title Install Windows 2000 map --mem /WIN2000/setup.iso (0xff) map --hook chainloader (0xff) Except he didn't have a single ISO. He had the loose files. He spent an hour using mkisofs -b boot.bin to craft a perfect, 680MB hybrid ISO that fit on the drive. The command line arguments looked like a magic spell: -no-emul-boot -boot-load-seg 0x7c0 -boot-info-table . Leo was determined