Sorry hit the send on the phone by accident?. Finally found this site:-
http://www.toughbookdrivers.com/drivers/cf-27/index.php?dir=CF-27%20MK2/
which has the USB drivers for Windows/95 B which I believe is the OSR2 release mentioned
below. So given that OSR2 was for OEM only I don?t believe it was ever issued on floppy.
I guess you could create a multidisc ZIP archive and then restore that to the hard drive,
or there were some versions of GHOST that would talk to USB disks, one of those might work
with a USB CD drive. (note I may have a CD of OSR2 somewhere on MSDN disks but I haven?t
seen the MSDN disks for ages?)
If you can get DOS drivers for the network card try making a DOS boot disk with networking
support, you should only need the network drivers for that. There are plenty of sites with
info on doing that. The disks still seem to be on the Microsoft FTP site..
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/
and see README.NOW file?..
or get a TCPIP program which will work over a serial link and FTP such as the KA9Q
package:-
http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/
(there are other sites with packages, look for DOS TCP/IP on the Vintage Computing
Forums?)
Any way I note from the above link there is a ToughBook help forum here:-
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/
so might be worth searching that.
Dave
G4UGM
From: Dave Wade [mailto:dave.g4ugm at
gmail.com]
Sent: 05 August 2014 07:05
To: Discussion: Posts
Subject: Re: windows 95 floppy
The USB support came only in OSR 2 and I wonder if by that time floppy versions had
gone...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253756
Actually looking at the above OSR 2 was only on
Dave
G4UGM
On 5 Aug 2014 05:03, "Derrick Meury" <rmx44 at
aim.com <mailto:rmx44 at
aim.com> > wrote:
i wouldnt want a virus version of it. also i would be looking for the 29 or 30 or so
floppy version including the usb driver
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From: Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at
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Sent: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 8:17 pm
Subject: Re: windows 95 floppy
ive got somewhere in my stuff a copy on floppy thats infected with your
computer is stoned virus
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at
fozztexx.com
<mailto:fozztexx at fozztexx.com> > wrote:
On Aug 4, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Derrick Meury <rmx44 at
aim.com <mailto:rmx44 at
aim.com> > wrote:
i happen to have an older panasonic toughbook
cf-27 mk2. i have wanted
to run an older os on it but alas i dont have a cd rom or
dvd rom for it
cause the mk1 and mk2 revision shipped with a floppy drive for the drive
bay and the mk3 and mk4 shipped with a cd rom or dvd rom. i have been
looking for windows 95 on floppy but all the copies i find on torrent sites
arent the full os or that you cant even boot from the img files after
making the floppy disks with raw write. would anyone out there have 95 on
floppy and or know a way to get drivers on a floppy disk rather then having
to get the error of not enough room.
The way I always did it was to put the entire copy of the CD on the hard
drive and install from there. You could delete it after, but it was better
to keep it since Win95/98 are always asking for the CD anyway. To get the
entire CD on the HD you could pull the HD and hook it to another computer.
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