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| Thread ID: 27922 | 2002-12-06 10:40:00 | win95 floppy version --any idea where to get?? | Long (692) | Press F1 |
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| 103764 | 2002-12-06 10:40:00 | Hi, does any body know where we can dl the floppy version for win95?? I had an old laptop which I want to install a system to but looks like nothing can be done without a CDRom on in. Cheers!! |
Long (692) | ||
| 103765 | 2002-12-06 11:11:00 | You need to use a fastlynx (FX) parallel cable and transfer the install image (the cabs in one directory, can't remember the dir name) to the machine and install from the hard disk. You'll need FX2.0 or similar as well. That fits on one floppy. You'd struggle to buy it, it's ten years old, but you can probably find it on the web. That's how I would do it. You could try buying the disks on trademe. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 103766 | 2002-12-06 11:50:00 | There is a way to make the floppies from the original CD. I think Terry and Graham L have done this before. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 103767 | 2002-12-06 12:03:00 | but you would be mad to. | robo (205) | ||
| 103768 | 2002-12-06 12:30:00 | Would a external CDROM do the trick? | Long (692) | ||
| 103769 | 2002-12-06 12:57:00 | Probably would, but I reckon FX and a cable is easiest. Hook them up, then go do something while it copies. | robo (205) | ||
| 103770 | 2002-12-06 19:24:00 | The alternative to Robos suggestion, especially if you have to go out and buy a cable, is to get an IDE cable to notebook hdd adapter from Dick Smith, remove the drive from the laptop and slave it into another computer. Fdisk a primary partition and format the drive and copy the cab files and all as per robo from the win95 directory on a CD. Put the hdd back into the laptop and run setup from the hdd. A lot depends on how big the drive is on the "old" laptop, hopefully there would be room for the win95 directory. Second hand floppies of that age may well be corrupted with greeblies, too many disks really, too much of a pain :) Dont know about making floppies from a CD. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 103771 | 2002-12-07 00:55:00 | madness is relative robo. :D I agree a file transfer is the easiest way, but floppies are not impossible. It's a one-off. I've installed OS/2 2.21 from floppies: 26 of them ;-). And Microsoft Office Pro (on 15 or so). But rather than making a set of "proper" MS formatted (1.7MB) which is possible but ugly, the easiest way is to use ZIP to make a spanned archive of the WIN95 directory to floppies, on ordinary 1.44 MB disks. You'll want to pick up a copy of DOS Zip (or a free equivalent) to unpack it at the other end. If you have a version of DOS after about 6.0, you will have Interlink, which does file transfers through serial prots (with a null modem cable) or through parallel ports (with a "Laplink" cable). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 103772 | 2002-12-07 01:46:00 | i've got the full original twenty million floppies if you wana borrow them :) i got them off my grandma, back in the day when windows 95 was the start of the new revoloution!! |
tones_malones (611) | ||
| 103773 | 2002-12-07 02:07:00 | Hi Lonq, I downloaded the floppies from www.freewebz.com Win 95 comes to 13 floppies. I first maximised the floppies to 1.7 MB by using Winimage. The program is available free from www.winimage.com. I also used Winrar. Winrar 300.exe available free from the web. I have not used the floppies to install sofar. If you want to copy a CD to floppies you can find instructions on www.binternet.com Will be interested to hear, how you get on. Regards, Antonia |
Antonia (730) | ||
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