5 Aug
2014
5 Aug
'14
9:21 a.m.
i know this old laptop has a parallel port. i did check out trying to find a cd rom for
the unit the original panasonic one and some places sell it for bout 40 to 200 or so. i
have thought of using a parallel optical drive but i dont have one on hand sadly. maybe u
might chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
To: ""General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk"
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Sent: Tue, Aug 5, 2014 9:11 am
Subject: Re: windows 95 floppy
On 08/05/2014 01:30 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Iff you DO find the floppy install disks, you should
still copy all of
them into an I386 subdirectory.
If you WANT a pain in the ass, then install from the floppies without
copying them into an I386 subdirectory!
I keep a couple of parallel-to-SCSI adapters around and a SCSI CDROM
drive for such an occasion. Works just fine. I wonder if a
parallel-to-IDE adapter would also work. The only floppy used is a
MSDOS boot floppy with the appropriate drivers. Not blindingly fast,
but not needful of endless disk swapping.
I suspect a similar setup could be done using Interlink over a serial
port, but I've never tried.
--Chuck