Alright, if anyone knows anything about good ol' 486 PC's and their weird fits of problems, I could use some help.
I recently got an ancient 486 from a friend (along with some printers, but that's neither here, nor there) and I used the AMIBIOS Hard disk format tool to blank the drive and reinstall DOS and Win3.1. To get an idea how old this is, think pre-PCI and pre-VESA slot. It has a few 8-bit slots, ISA and EISA. It also has one of those huge old floppy disk drives, and a 3.5" HD floppy drive. I try to use floppy disks to boot into and install DOS (I have multiple OS floppy sets, one is DOS 5.0, another is DOS 6.22, both of which are afflicted with the problem) and every time I put the first (or even the other) install disks in, it gives me a Non-System Disk error, or the like, much like it would in a modern computer.
Does anyone have any ideas? Can this old beast only boot from a floppy if it's one of the huge old ones? Would it be possible to use the Hard drive and floppy disk, plug it into another computer, and install DOS and the like?
Thanks!
~John