eh i am still wanting to find the factory microsoft made 28 or 29 or 30 floppy immages of
the os rather then do things in ways that is a pain in the ass for me to do i want to just
do things easily copy floppy immages or plop in floppies change when needed done. the
other thing is that i dont have any optical drives for this one and i have found that the
price of the optical drive for this thing costs 45 to almost 200 depending on where u get
one from otherwise i am stuck with the floppy drive
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tue, Aug 5, 2014 12:49 am
Subject: Re: windows 95 floppy
1. Get Win95 CD-ROM.
preferably the Panasonic one for that machine.
2. On SOME OTHER computer, copy the I386 directory of the CD to floppies.
You may need to use a Zip program or a backup program, instead of
COPY, if any of the files are larger than the floppy.
3. On the Psnasonic, make an I386 subdirectory.
4. Copy the floppies into that subdirectory.
5. Install Win95 from that directory.
IFF you have the right disc in step 1, THAT is how you instsll WIN95
without a CD-ROM drive on the destination machine. There are some
alternatives, such as "network install".
NOTE: WIN98 SR2 is generally preferable to WIN95.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com