Installing windows 95

[Bads]

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 " 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............

[Alpine]

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 !

[billybob3]

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

[Dave]

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.

[billybob3]

OHHH, fast thinking Dave!

[Bads]

@ 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 ????

[Dave]

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

[Bads]

Thanks Dave,

I will try your method tomorrow morning And post my comments after

Thanks again

[Bads]

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

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

[Cactus]

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

Or do you see file named CABS?