Installing windows 95

[Dave]

Make sure your at the "C:\>" prompt before changing directories into the cab folder.

C: <enter>
(You should now be at the C prompt)
CD Cabs <enter>
setup <enter>

[Cactus]

Quote:

Originally posted by Dave@Jun 9 2003, 11:24 PM
CD Cabs <enter>

Better yet,

CD\Cabs <enter>

This will make sure you change to the root folder called cabs.

[Bads]

Ok,

My folder is "C:\windows\cabs"

[Bads]

I'm trying to make my floppies with Winimage.

But when I want to copy them to my "C" drive, the system copy only 65 024 b and not 1 216 724 bytes

I receive this message : Sector not found reading drive A

Why ?

Thanks

[mikeh420]

Sector not found, might mean a corrupted or damaged diskette. Try and do a full format (not a quick format) and see if it finds bad sectors. Also sometimes system install diskettes are formatted in other than 1.44MB (FAT12) format, like some MS products.

[Bads]

Quote:

Originally posted by mikeh420@Jun 9 2003, 07:38 PM
Sector not found, might mean a corrupted or damaged diskette. Try and do a full format (not a quick format) and see if it finds bad sectors. Also sometimes system install diskettes are formatted in other than 1.44MB (FAT12) format, like some MS products.

These floppies are new

And I have to convert them to 1.6 meg 2048 sector I think

I format them using WinImage and write them but I always receive the same message

[doder]

i uploaded a copy win95 osr2 to someone{?}. it included a copy of "Maxidisk" that will allow you to increase the size of the floppies so all the files fit. i can upload Maxidisk if you want it.

[Dave]

Make sure your using the very last choice in WinImage under "non-standard format"
DMF (cluster 2048)

It ends up as either 1.66 or 1.68 but don't use the third selection that says 1.68 cause I'm pretty sure it's different.
It's the DMF format thats readable in DOS and thats exactlly what MS used to distribute the floppy disk sets.

Try one like that and see if you can get it to copy onto your laptop.

You also don't need to make the whole set, reformating all the disks is a waste of time, you only really need 2 or 3 disks.
Put the laptop next to your desktop system and as your copying one disk to the laptop you can be getting the next ready on your desktop by deleting the old file and copying the next cab onto it. (You don't need to reformat each time, just delete the old file).
Dave

[Bads]

Quote:

Originally posted by doder@Jun 9 2003, 10:16 PM
i uploaded a copy win95 osr2 to someone{?}. it included a copy of "Maxidisk" that will allow you to increase the size of the floppies so all the files fit. i can upload Maxidisk if you want it.

I have download it from you doder

But I can't make it working

I have the good file on the floppy But I always receive this message when trying to copy the file :Sector not found reading drive A

[Dave]

Thats strange, I just tried it myself to doublecheck and it worked fine.
Here is what I did, I used the _03.cab file because it's the first full size file.

I put in a floppy and opened WinImage and went to:
Disk\format disk
and choose "DMF 2048" (the last option).
After the disk formatted and verified I copied the Win95_03.cab file to it.
Then I booted up with a windows 98 boot disk and at the A prompt I removed the boot disk and put in the floppy I just made.
Then I did this: (pushing enter after each line)
C:
md cabs
copy A:\ C:\cabs
(The file proceeded to copy, when it was done I entered the folder to check).
cd cabs
dir

I could see the file there and I didn't recieve any errors, when I booted back to windows I double checked and the folder and file was there and it was the right size.

Hmmmm, let me think about this for a while.
Dave