Muse
Lifer
The installation locks up early in the process and I have to reboot. Little over a year ago my Win95 system was so snafu (corrupt registry, I figured) that I built an entirely new system and installed Win2000. I'm just now getting around to working on the box which has an 8.4 GB main drive and a 2.7 GB second drive and 64 MB RAM and a Cyrix 166+ CPU. I could install Win98 or Win98SE on this but figure that with just 64 MB it's better to stick with Win95 OSR2. I have the installation .cab files on the 2nd drive on the system, the 2.7 GB drive and so I reformatted the 8.4 GB main drive in preparation to install Win95 from scratch. I checked out the drives and they are fine. I ran IBM's own evaluation utility, Scandisk, and formatted the entire drive and it's FAT32. I booted to a Win95 floppy with Windows 95's HIMEM.SYS on it and a config.sys with this:
REM device=c:\dos\himem.sys
DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS
files=100
buffers=30
stacks=9,256
At first I only had the 2nd line, DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS but I changed it because I was having this problem, which continues. I run setupm.exe from the Win95 directory that has all the Win95 install files and everything seems to go fine, the scandisk finds no problems, I continue with the installation and the screen says Windows 95 Setup or something like that, I see an hourglass mouse cursor but eventually the mouse cursor freezes and nothing else happens and I have to reset. I've done this 1/2 a dozen times now. I installed Windows 95 OSR2 successfully twice before on the same system from these same files. When I boot to floppy I can see half a dozen files on the C: drive and one directory. Somehow the installation is going haywire.
When I reboot to the floppy and do a directory listing to see what's been put on my C: drive I see 5 files and a directory:
wininst0.400 Dir
autoexec.bat 139
config.win 0
winboot.~!~ 22
winboot.ini 22
autoexec.win 0
The wininst0.400 directory has 208 files in it which total about 7.7 MB. Lots of DLLs, inf files, etc.
Can anyone suggest something? Thanks.
REM device=c:\dos\himem.sys
DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS
files=100
buffers=30
stacks=9,256
At first I only had the 2nd line, DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS but I changed it because I was having this problem, which continues. I run setupm.exe from the Win95 directory that has all the Win95 install files and everything seems to go fine, the scandisk finds no problems, I continue with the installation and the screen says Windows 95 Setup or something like that, I see an hourglass mouse cursor but eventually the mouse cursor freezes and nothing else happens and I have to reset. I've done this 1/2 a dozen times now. I installed Windows 95 OSR2 successfully twice before on the same system from these same files. When I boot to floppy I can see half a dozen files on the C: drive and one directory. Somehow the installation is going haywire.
When I reboot to the floppy and do a directory listing to see what's been put on my C: drive I see 5 files and a directory:
wininst0.400 Dir
autoexec.bat 139
config.win 0
winboot.~!~ 22
winboot.ini 22
autoexec.win 0
The wininst0.400 directory has 208 files in it which total about 7.7 MB. Lots of DLLs, inf files, etc.
Can anyone suggest something? Thanks.
