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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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103774	2002-12-07 03:23:00	How long ago did you do that Antonia? I think you will find that the MS police have visited the site from where those files were downloadable. That was one of the last sites where such "no longer supported and hence could be regarded as abandonware software" could be downloaded. I gave the link to this site a few months ago with the warning to be quick, but its already no longer working. Spent an hour this afternoon looking for such stuff for this posting, but nearly all gone. Still get DOS 6.22 and Windows 2 though, and a few other things like the first version of Linux :) and early OS/2.	Terry Porritt (14)
103775	2002-12-07 04:48:00	If you had a laptop, then you no longer have it. So why do you want to install an operating system on an item you no longer have?	Merlin (503)
103776	2002-12-07 06:33:00	my suggestion would be try Cash Converters. They seem to have everything else	teddybear (2443)
103777	2002-12-07 09:56:00	There are two ways to create a set of installation floppy disks for a MS Windows 9x operating system. Method A. Copy a set of original floppy disks. This will also include the boot floppy. Method B. Create a set from the appropriate operating system CD. The boot floppy is not included on the CD and is not procurable by legal sources. In either case, the following software is required: 1. Software to create DMF (distribution media format) or 1. 7Mb formatted floppy disks. Examples include MaxiDisk by Herne Software and WinImage by Gilles Vollant Software. 2. Software to create image files of and for floppy disks. WinImage is the best known. Also required for method B are: 3. WinZip to create cabinet files. 4. A date/time file stamp program to alter the date and time of the cabinet files - use datetime file stamp on any shareware search engine. 5. A list of the details of the cabinet files for each operating system. Details include the files on each floppy disk, the files within each cabinet file and the date stamp of each file. To find the lists, search the MS Kb using Windows DMF Floppy Disk Directory Listing. To create floppy disks using method A Option 1 1. Create a boot floppy disk and transfer the contents from the original boot floppy overwriting where prompted. 2. Format sufficient floppy disks as DMF and copy the contents from each original floppy. Label each disk with the same name as the originally floppy. Operating installation Installation will halt if a disk is not correctly labelled. 3. Check the installation program will run, replacing any faulty disks or correcting any errors if necessary. Option 2 1. Use WinImage to create images of the original floppy disk set and create the installation floppy disks using the images. Refer to WinImage for instructions. 2. Check the installation program will run, replacing any faulty disks or correcting any errors if necessary. To create floppy disks using method B Read these instructions with the Floppy Disk Directory Listing from the MS Kb. Remember - the boot floppy is not included on the CD and is not procurable by legal sources. 1. Print the Floppy Disk Directory Listing from the MS Kb. 2. On the C drive create the same number of folders as DMF installation floppies. Label each folder Disk 1, Disk 2 etc. 3. Using WinZip, extract the relevant files from the cabinet files on the appropriate CD to the relevant folder. 4. After all the files are placed in each folder, use WinZip to create the cabinet files as described on the Floppy Disk Directory Listing from the MS Kb. Name each cabinet file with the same name from the Directory Listing. 5. Change the date/time stamp of each cabinet file to the same that is on the Floppy Disk Directory Listing. 6. Format sufficient floppy disks as DMF and copy the relevant files from each folder beginning with Disk 1. Refer to the Floppy Disk Directory Listing for the relevant files. Label each disk with the same name as the folder. 7. Use WinImage to create images of each floppy disk. Check the disk label is correct placed. Refer to WinImage for instructions. NOTE: If any of the cabinet file names, date/time stamps or disk labels are incorrect, operating installation will halt. 8. Create a new set of installation floppy disks using the WinImage image. 9. Check the installation program will run, replacing any faulty disks or correcting any errors if necessary.	Merlin (503)
103778	2002-12-07 21:53:00	Hi Terry, You are right, the site is still there, but not operational for the win 95 OS. I must have been just in time when I followed up your tip earlier on. So thanks to you and apologies to Lonq. Antonia	Antonia (730)
103779	2002-12-08 01:22:00	Yes, Merlin, those are the "correct" ways to create a set of floppy disks for Wxx . The object here is to install W95 on a computer with no CD drive . There is an easier way to do that: Get a copy of a ZIP/UNZIP package . . . a free one or the PK one . . . which runs on DOS . On a computer with a CD drive use ZIP or Winzip to create a spanned archive of the WIN95 directory of the CD on floppies . Go to the CD-less computer with a DOS boot disk . Boot it . MD c:\WIN95 MD ZIP (install the ZIP programmes in that directory) CD \WIN95 (use \zip\pkunzip (or whatever) to unpack the archive) SETUP This is all legal . A WIN95 CD should be available at trademe . co . nz . Use google for "free zip download", or "pkzip download" . There are legal "dos" boot disks .	Graham L (2)
103780	2002-12-08 03:58:00	No - wrong. The original question and implied inference was: Where to download a copy of the Windows floppy disk installation files or alternative methods of installing. How to install is a consequence of the original request. The floppy disks are not able to be legally downloaded from a public site. It is legal - under the Win95 EULA - to make a backup copy of Win95 (both floppies and CD). How to transfer such a backup copy from one computer to another and/or install is purely subjective and based on personal experience. Different installation methods include creating copies of original disks, via a network interface card, via a serial or parallel link using MS or third party connecting software, transferring files from one machine (either compressed/uncompressed/direct from CD/from HDD folder) to another and then installing. Connecting software includes FastLynx, Laplink, pcAnywhere, FX, MS Interlnk and Intersvr and NIC drivers.	Merlin (503)
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