ahhhhh....... I got no DOS.....I though one set of my floppies said Dos 5, but turns out they are just diagnostic discs
Ah well. ****it. No Dos means no win3.11, no win3.11 means no win 95 upgrade, so that portion of the plan is borked. and I may as well forget installing Deian until I have a BB connection. I'll just make the XP partition and a second XP partition for data.....