Re: Windows 95

"Rugxulo" <rugxulo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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/

"test computer is a 486 laptop with 16 MB RAM"

Thanks! I was having problems getting Linux to install on a 32-Mb machine a
while back. I tried a few: Puppy, DSL, etc.

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


How'd you locate these? Yahoo? Google? Distrowatch? If DW, how many versions
did you have to read through?

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


A) Shouldn't expand.exe to extract .cab's for MS-DOS be on the install disks
for Win95?
B) For Windows, couldn't he use 7-Zip to extract .cabs?


Rod Pemberton

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