The system.img files have both been apparently put through the DOS newline mangler, and it's the bad kind that mixes all the different input newlines together (LF -> CRLF, CR -> CRLF, CRLF->CRLF) so there's not enough information there to restore the original file. And then they truncated them to 1474560 bytes again just to nail it home. Where did this come from? I think someone is messing with you.
Is there maybe some FTP client involved that has some kind of ASCII/binary autodetection mode that is extremely bad at actually figuring out what files are appropriate to transfer in ASCII mode?
86Box, Socket 4, Dell Optiplex, Pentium OD, 32MB RAM, Tseng ET4000AX, no more than 510MB HDD (it doesn't support LBA, there's a 508MB preset in 86Box), 2 x 1.44MB FDD (no point in 2.88 as the Dell BIOS doesn't support it), Microsoft Serial Mouse.
After install getting X running is a PITA, if you're confident then you can create /root, change roots home in /etc/passwd and copy the required files from /usr/lib/X11/xinit to /root making them dot files in the process. Then make the below changes to the dot files in roots home folder.
If you're not confident then do an init 0 as root, when prompted close 86box and make a backup of the VHD (we're gonna edit system files and trust me, you don't wanna sit through a 70 disk install twice) then boot back up and with vi edit /usr/lib/X11/Xconfig, uncomment 1024x768, change the server type to mach and enable the mouse by uncommenting the MS Serial mouse section then save and quit. Now xinit SHOULD start X correctly. startx will not work without also editing /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc.
DELL Unix 4.0
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Is there maybe some FTP client involved that has some kind of ASCII/binary autodetection mode that is extremely bad at actually figuring out what files are appropriate to transfer in ASCII mode?
But there are screen shots of it running.
A LOT of FTP systems would butcher binary files like that, especially if one was not careful to put things inside of a ZIP.
I've re-uploaded the files, as well as added issue 2.0.
86Box, Socket 4, Dell Optiplex, Pentium OD, 32MB RAM, Tseng ET4000AX, no more than 510MB HDD (it doesn't support LBA, there's a 508MB preset in 86Box), 2 x 1.44MB FDD (no point in 2.88 as the Dell BIOS doesn't support it), Microsoft Serial Mouse.
After install getting X running is a PITA, if you're confident then you can create /root, change roots home in /etc/passwd and copy the required files from /usr/lib/X11/xinit to /root making them dot files in the process. Then make the below changes to the dot files in roots home folder.
If you're not confident then do an init 0 as root, when prompted close 86box and make a backup of the VHD (we're gonna edit system files and trust me, you don't wanna sit through a 70 disk install twice) then boot back up and with vi edit /usr/lib/X11/Xconfig, uncomment 1024x768, change the server type to mach and enable the mouse by uncommenting the MS Serial mouse section then save and quit. Now xinit SHOULD start X correctly. startx will not work without also editing /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc.
See this page for the source and a more in depth write up - https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/12/01/dell-unix-on-86box/