Mastodawn

okay so

i found some old instructions

and the firmware chunks i need was still on the .hk webserver (even tho' they're not on the north american server)

so if i boot my 11-year-old Intel macbook pro I should be able to boot my Windows 2000 VM to format this 6-year-old thumb drive to a version of NTFS this thing will use, and that will let me write the files to it that the Pocket 2 wants, then I should be able to F7 into system recovery and from there reinstall the OS.

let's gooooooooooooooooooo

actually the big question is "can this Win2K VM format a USB drive?"

it's trying

it brings up the UI and such and lets me fill it in and I clicked "Start" and we've hourglassed and the progress bar isn't progressing, clark

WHUP WE HAVE A PEL

REPEAT

WE HAVE A PROGRESS PEL

CHUG CHUG YOU CAN DO IT

oh the format finished btw

i'm copying files over now

i had to unzip the archive on the macos side, hopefully that doesn't cause any problems later! (narrator: we don't know yet)

it is

so slow holy shit

so very slow

#gpd #pocket2 #reformat

wait what

i had a popos install on this thing too?!

APPARENTLY?!

well i actually need fuckin' windows because that's the only thing this radio software comes built for so

well there we are! it go!

i can't even imagine how old a version of windows 10 this is but WHELP

CORTANA?!

wow xD

and THIS time I MEAN IT

wow i can correctly answer literally none of the security questions, nice

sure do assume a lot about families and shit, doncha

well time for a list of obscenities as answers to security questions, have fun with that cortana

i got the screen horizontal but we’re gonna be here a while

maybe a lot of whiles xD

Good morning! IT'S STILL GOING.

It is progressing! Just remarkably slowly.

#gpd #Pocket2

Led By Gilded Fools

@moira good luck.

I've got a similar problem but it involves installing Kubuntu on a new-to-me laptop which has bootlicker (Bitlocker) enabled, so I am trying to figure out how to disable to allow repartitioning the SSD.

@MHowell we've moved into "installing" phases and it's going much more quickly

"Ah sure do hate to install Winders like this, but it's the lawwwwwwwwww of software"

(at least for this one stupid app)

but, well, good luck with the re-partition, it sounds like a Problem