Hello,

I have succesfully create my floppies for installing windows 95 to an old laptop ;)

Now,

I insert the boot floppy, and all is working ok. When it's the time to choose my default installation, I have many choice: Laptop, recommanded etc..............If I choose any of these choice, the setup said " Cannot find the Install " :angry: :blink: This is my problem......What can I do for terminating the setup ???????

Thanks for your help............I have installed Ms-Dos 6.22 without any problem............

I know that i have send u that version of Win95 .. i ripped from the original Win95 Floppies disk !!

Maybe that my rip is corrupt .......... i can't test it on any PC ....

Oh .... god ..... i have a PC to repair monday .. i will try on it !

How old is the laptop? You might consider Windows 3.1, it runs faster on those REALLY old laptops...

When you make your own floppy set you need to have the right files on each disk with the correct volume labels.

Disk 1 should be a normal 1.44 format with volume label "Disk1" (without the quote but note there is no space).
It should have these files on it:
Deltemp.com, Dossetup.bin, Extract.exe, Mini.cab, Precopy1.cab, Readme.txt, Save32.com, Scandisk.exe, Scanprog.exe, Setup.exe, Setup.txt, Smartdrv.exe, Wb16off.exe, Winsetup.bin, Xmsmmgr.exe

The rest of the disks all have a DMF 1.66 format (Cluster 2048)
Disk 2 has volume label "Disk2" and contains:
Precopy2.cab, Win95_02.cab

From there on you put one cab file on each floppy with the volume name matching the cab number:
Disk3 = Win95_.03.cab
Disk4 = Win95_.04.cab
(Continue like that till the end).

Best of luck,
Dave


Edit- On second thought..
If the set you made isn't like it should be, rather than starting over it would be a lot easier to just copy the contents of the floppies into a folder through DOS and run the setup from the hard drive.

OHHH, fast thinking Dave! :kicking: :D :) ;)

@ Alpine,

yes this is your floppies

@ billybob3

This is a Compaq 3/25

I already have windows 3.11 but I want to make a test ;)

@ Dave,

Thanks for these informations ;) I have only to copy all the floppies to a new directory and launch the setup ????

Yes, you can just copy all the floppies to a folder and run the setup from there.

If you didn't have DOS installed you would need to boot with a windows 98 boot disk cause it would create a temporary RAM drive with the basic dos commands letting you remove the floppy disk.

Boot to DOS and make a folder on the C drive.
C: <enter>
MD Cabs <enter>

Then copy all the floppies to the folder:
copy A:\ C:\Cabs <enter>

When your ready for the next disk, just hold down the right arrow key to automatically retype the line and hit <enter>

Then just enter the folder and run setup:
CD cabs <enter>
Setup <enter>

Dave

Thanks Dave,

I will try your method tomorrow morning ;) ;) And post my comments after :lol:

Thanks again

If I type CD cabs, I receive the message "Invalid directory" :angry: :blink:

If I type C:\dir I see the Cabs directory :(

Try "Dir c:\ /x", there might be some longfile-name problem. It helped me a few times!

Or do you see file named CABS?