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1. i installed windows 95, didn't get far because of windows 95's limitations, and yes i know there's patches to fix the memory autism but i got too lazy to actually do that
installing OSes not meant for my VPS
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was going to install windows xp since that supports ipv6 but the installer couldn't detect any drives
>but then why did windows 95 work?
not to go on a long autistic explanation but basically windows 95 uses the bios IO functions to install windows so it already knew how to deal with the drives but windows xp runs on custom drivers which cannot detect it, yes i did try integral edition which has drivers baked into it but even that didn't work for some reason but i'm guessing it's struggling since the vps is probably using nvme
>but then why did windows 95 work?
not to go on a long autistic explanation but basically windows 95 uses the bios IO functions to install windows so it already knew how to deal with the drives but windows xp runs on custom drivers which cannot detect it, yes i did try integral edition which has drivers baked into it but even that didn't work for some reason but i'm guessing it's struggling since the vps is probably using nvme