I've had good success with the latest versions of Win95 (OSR-2) by
creating the floppies directly from the CD. I've also done it using a
parallel-port CD-ROM drive, which was certainly more convienient.
For making the floppies, I don't have them handy to check, but the
CAB files are clearly marked, in the WIN95 directory on the CD.
The CAB files for disks 2 through 28 are clearly marked, and are
the only think on DMF-formatted diskettes. Disk 1 is a bootable
DOS 7 diskette, with SETUP, SCANDISK, EXTRACT and some
other files on it, all from the WIN95 directory on the CD. I
discovered what the files were by running Setup, and figuring it out,
by the files that it asked for. Took a few tries to get everything on
there.
Hope this helps,
Anthony J. Albert
On 25 Jan 00, at 9:46, David Rust wrote:
> 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
>
> ----------
> 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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