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| 66667 | 2002-07-30 05:30:00 | Hi there I've already got W95 on a cd-rom (not used on any machine) and have just been given an old laptop that only has a floppy drive. I thought it would be useful for the kids to do there homework etc (otherwise I'd put a small linux distro on it) Can I (using my good computer of course) somehow copy my win95 cd onto floppies in such a way to enable me to load from them? Thanks in advance |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 66668 | 2002-07-30 05:35:00 | Yes, use the Backup to floppy thing found somewhere. It usually pops up after you have first installed win95. Be warned, you will need a lot of floppys. My estimate is around 35. Others might have a better idea. |
Elwin Way (229) | ||
| 66669 | 2002-07-30 05:39:00 | It's possible, and can be done in the proper MS way, with 1.7MB floppies. But the easy way is to use ZIP to make a spanned zip file on floppies from the WIN95 directory on the CD. Then unpack it to a WIN95 directory on the laptop, and run "setup.exe" in that directory. Given a choice between the proper way and the easy way, I sometimes choose the proper one. ;-) But in this case, it's also the most likely to work. :D And it is also quicker.:D:D If you haven't got PKUNZIP for DOS, look for it on Simtel. (msdos/compression) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 66670 | 2002-07-30 05:43:00 | P.S. Not that many floppies, and I've never seen that "backup to floppy". (Compaq used to give you a chance to do that with W3.1, when they gave you a nonstandard installatoin from the HD). That directory is the only one you need . | Graham L (2) | ||
| 66671 | 2002-07-30 05:46:00 | Hi Graham (Expected you to tell me to make the rascals learn linux!) Does your comment mean I do a spanned zip from WinZip and then open in MS-Dos using PKunzip? Also, this would mean I would need a bootup disk to get an MS Dos prompt? Drive has been formatted! |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 66672 | 2002-07-30 05:56:00 | Just out of interest Graham, How would one go about doing it the proper MS way? |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 66673 | 2002-07-30 06:33:00 | Well of course, they would do better to learn Linux. ;-) But surely you can find (or make) a boot disk which will give a DOS prompt, and put PKUNZIP on it. Copying from the W95 CD doesn't give you a boot disk. I haven't seen an image of the W95 bootdisk on the CD (though I haven't looked for one ;-)) Certainly MS don't give you rawrite or anything like it. You have to boot to DOS anyway to do the install. Yes, use WinZip or PKZIP to make the spanned disks. I'd prefer to make the output on a hard disk, then copy the .zip files to the floppies, so I could recopy if there's a dud floppy. (Remember that there is an index file which *must* be on the last disk, as well as the compressed file). J.M. There had a discussion here a while ago. It's messy, and needs a formatter for MS 1.7MB floppies. It IS possible. But Schoeder doesn't want a set of floppies exactly as MS would have done it. He wants to install W95 with minimum stuffing around. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 66674 | 2002-07-30 09:20:00 | Incidently, there is an excellent shareware program I thought worth buying called Maxformat, which can format floppies up to 1.7MB, including DMF1 and DMF2, etc. It's at this site: www.alkonost.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 66675 | 2002-07-30 09:26:00 | dependin on the version of win95 it should be 20-30 floppy's. there is a toy called fdread.exe and fdformat.exe that will let you put 1.Mb on a floppy. I sugest you put aside a full day to do the job :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 66676 | 2002-07-30 10:28:00 | Haven't tried it out yet. But the superdisk drive at college will format a 1.44MB floppy to 32MB. Also those Sony MemoryStick Adapters are rather large floppys. Would take an age doing 128MB through a standard floppy drive. Haven't used it either. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
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