A very special holiday episode of Z80Dad, Its Still #DOSCember! So lets put CP/M -86 on a Thin client! Why CP/M? Well DOS owes its API to CP/M so I thought it would be fun to do a short on installing it on a thin client. I soon found out the many challenges in getting this old OS to load properly on the 800Mhz VIA Eden based HP 5530 Thin client. Come along for the ride as we bootstrap a thin client using a USB floppy drive dongle and an old 1.44MB floppy.

Bookmark Links (this is a very long video):

The Tools:
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Virtualization (Setting up DOS tool chain):
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Virtualization (CP/M on a Virtual Box):
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Make a Floppy disk (from an image) on windows:
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The Actual install:
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Make converting an old CP/M image to 1.44MB:
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Copy settings from a boot-disk to a CVV partition:
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Installing the boot-loader:
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Links to tools used:

USB Dongle Amazon Listing(though I haven’t tried it a GOTEk would also most likely work):
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CP/M-86 Software repo (CVV tools / other useful stuff):
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Unofficial CP/M Web Page (1.44MB Floppy image install media CPM 1.1)
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22DISK tools (modifying 1.44MB Disk images from DOS):
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Disk write:
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A very good blog post on CPM-86 Virtualization (this got me to the 50% point):
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A video I did on setting the client up for dos 6.22:
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