Windows 95 on floppes

[VigilanteCS]

Hi, I have a copy of windows 95 (floppy version) for my 486 laptop. Anyway, they're mostal .cab files....my question is do I put the .cab for each disk onto the floppy or do I put the extracted contents of the .cab on? thanks for any help

 

[farmercal]

Someone is still using WIN 95? Why?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: farmercal
Someone is still using WIN 95? Why?

I think you can even get XP on floppy as well ...

 

[VigilanteCS]

It's for my old 486 laptop. ..So, can anyone answer my question?

 

[overclock]

the only thing i can suggest is to get an adapter and plug your laptop hd into a desktop and copy the files off of there. if the laptop has a cd drive just burn a cd with the files and you're good to go. if not you're hosed. trying to figure out which cab files go on what floppy could take years.

or for the price of the adapter and your time just buy it from ebay.

 

[MournSanity]

Originally posted by: VigilanteCS
It's for my old 486 laptop. ..So, can anyone answer my question?

Get something better for your 486...Like Linux. Windows 95 is horrible.

 

[VigilanteCS]

Can someone answer me question? All I wanna know is if I need to extract the .cab files to floppy or just put the.cabs on..

overclock, the .cab's are in a folder telling me whic disk they go on. I have a PCMCIA cd rom but it's broken, plus drivers need to be installed in windows for it to work anyway.

 

[Woody419]

I reading my Win95 disk setup.txt instructions. This is what I have found so far regarding your situation:

KNOWN POTENTIAL SETUP PROBLEMS
==============================

Installing Windows 95 on a 4 MB or 386 computer from floppy disks may
be very slow. To speed things up:

- Run Setup from inside Windows 3.x or Windows for Workgroups. Avoid
running Setup from MS-DOS.

- If you are running a disk-compression program, such as DriveSpace or
DoubleSpace, Setup may be very slow. Consider copying the files on
the floppy disks to a temporary directory on your hard disk, and then
running Setup from your hard disk. To copy files from Disks 2 through
12, you will need to use the EXTRACT command on Disk 1 to copy the
Win95_xx.cab files to your hard disk, since they are in the new
Microsoft Distribution Media Format (DMF). Normal MS-DOS commands like
COPY and XCOPY won't work on these floppy disks.

To copy a .cab file from a floppy disk to your hard disk, use the
following command:

extract /c a:win95_xx.cab c:\<TempDir>

where <TempDir> is the location of a temporary directory on your
hard disk.

- During Setup, if you notice that the light for an empty floppy disk
drive is flashing for a long time and Setup is slow, try inserting a
formatted floppy disk into the empty drive.

- If you encounter problems during Setup, such as Setup closing
unexpectedly or error messages that do not apply, try increasing the
size of your permanent swap file. In general, the size of your
permanent swap file plus the amount of RAM in your computer should
equal at least 14 MB for Setup to complete successfully. After you
change your swap file size, try running Setup again.

Microsoft has the file list for Win95 floppys

 

[sparkyclarky]

Unsure of the answer to your particular question, but I can say that I have installed win95 off of a zip drive about 7 years ago onto a 486 desktop. Don't remember how I pulled that one off.

 

[jackschmittusa]

The last notebook I had with win95 installed on it also had a utility for making the 30 floppys to install win95. Yours might too. If not, my set looks like this:

first disk is labled: setup boot disk, and contains the following files:

AUTOEXEC.BAT
COMMAND.COM
CONFIG.SYS
COUNTRY.SYS
DISPLAY.SYS
DRVSPACE.BIN
EGA.CPI
EGA2.CPI
EGA3.CPI
FDISK.EXE
FORMAT.COM
HIMEM.SYS
IO.SYS
KEYB.COM
KEYBOARD.SYS
KEYBRD2.SYS
MODE.COM
MSDOS.SYS
OEMSETUP.BIN
OEMSETUP.EXE

next disk is labled: disk 1 0f 29, and contains:

DELTEMP.COM
DOSSETUP.BIN
EXTRACT.EXE
MINI.CAB
PRECOPY1.CAB
README.TXT
SAVE32.COM
SCANDISK.EXE
SCANDISK.PIF
SCANPROG.EXE
SETUP.EXE
SETUP.TXT
SMARTDRV.EXE
WINSETUP.BIN
XMSMMGR.EXE

next disk is 2 of 29, containing:

PRECOPY2.CAB

next disk contains:

PRECOPY3.CAB
WIN95_03.CAB


next disk contains:

WIN95_04.cab

and so on.

 

[XBoxLPU]

30? :Q :Q

 

[jackschmittusa]

Boot disk and 29 others.