I had good luck installing Win95 on my Toshiba 486 using the CD in my
desktop PC, a parallel crossover cable with the DOS Interlink.exe and
Intersrv.exe programs. Worked great and now I always keep the boot floppy
(that I created for the procedure) handy for mini networking between the two
machines. Let me know if this interests you and if you need more info.
Dave
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From: Detailboy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:51 AM
Subject: Win 95 CD -> 3.5" floppy Install
Microsoft has a lot of documentation on their support site listing
the
files of each Win 95 install floppy and at first glance the files
appear
to be the same as the CD just bundled differently to fit onto DMF
3.5"
floppies.
There are also several utilities available to extract .CAB files and
create DMF floppies.
I've got a notebook PC with Win 3.1 that I'd like to upgrade to Win
95,
but it has no built-in CD ROM. I'm not familiar with notebook PC
hardware to start taking it apart and rigging a desktop CD ROM onto
the
controller -- and it's not economically worth it to me to buy a new
Backpack parallel port CD for an old 486 when used 486 notebooks
with
built-in CD ROM drives cost as much as a new Backpack CD ROM drive.
It would be a lot easier if I could make a 3.5" floppy install set
from
the CD and use floppies for the install.
Has anyone successfully made their own Win 95 3.5" floppy install
from
the Win 95 CD? Got any documentation on the procedure?
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