Re: Windows 95
- From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:41:55 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
On Apr 5, 4:34 am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"XM" <a...@xxx> wrote in message
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I have a new PC and a cdrom of windows95
is it possible install windows95 in that pc?
Probably... Win95 is old enough that you might not have support for
important devices, such as your cpu, video, etc...
True. He may have better luck running a lite Linux distro: DeLi,
Slackware (or old ZipSlack?? 11.0 from FAT w/ 2.4.x kernel ... FreeDOS
does support FAT32), or even something like BlueFlops in a pinch. And
if he has enough RAM (> 256 MB), he could try Slax (although I've
honestly only briefly tried the older 5.x "Kill Bill" edition with
WINE, DOSBox, QEMU).
http://www.delilinux.org/
http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/
http://merlin.fit.vutbr.cz/mirrors/slax/SLAX-5.x/special-editions/
http://blueflops.sf.net
in the old pc the Boot start from a floppy now
i have no floppy. How install dos if i not have the floppy?
You need a bootable DOS somewhere: floppy, cdrom, harddisk, USB versions of
those, or a USB memory stick.
http://rugxulo.googlepages.com
You can either install the 3 disk distro, just the one
"bare_dos" (quite minimal), or make a bootable CD from any single 1.44
MB floppy .IMG via MKBISO.
I have a P166 that used to run Win95 (although it needs to be located
at the beginning of the HD among other irritations ... it's really not
the most robust OS anymore), but I now only run DOS on it (DR-DOS and
FreeDOS dual boot) for fun (heh). My Win95 copy is 18 or so
"upgrade" (DMF? 1.68 MB) floppies plus three for full Win 3.0
(needed). And it's in split .CAB archives that span multiple disks.
So, you need a .CAB unpacker (at least):
http://blairdude.googlepages.com/cabextract
http://blairdude.googlepages.com/lcab
And actually, if you need to access your CD-ROM drive, you can try
UIDE (discontinued last Nov. but still works):
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/udma+drivers/drivers-01nov2007.zip
Disk#2 in the above FreeDOS mini distro (3 disks) already has that.
(And I'm in the process of eventually updating the online images,
too). There's also a (much) older XCDROM driver (same author) on
disk#1, but I doubt that works as well (if at all) for some people.
Japheth translated that to XCDROM32.JLM (PM driver for JEMM), which is
also on disk#2.
In short, I dunno exactly if that'll help, but good luck!
P.S. More DOS savvy answers can be gotten at the following:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/
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