Joined: Sat 04-06-2002 5:55PM Posts: 165 Location: Carbondale(ish), IL
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Does anyone have windows 95 or windows 95 upgrade in a floppy disk set? I was re-installing on an old machine, and have come to realize my ancient floppy set is half corrupt. If I could borrow someone else's that would be great. Thanks! email me at mbrennek@umr.edu or reply here.
Joined: Wed 02-20-2002 11:27PM Posts: 867 Location: No one's really sure what became of Castorite after graduation
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I've got it on CD.
It's OSR 2.1, which is Win95B plus USB support, but without IE 4 (It DOES have IE 3, I believe...). I believe the packages are the same, but Windows will look to the CD-ROM for components before the floppy.
Anyhow, yeah. It's not the disk set, but by now I'd imagine that just about all disk distros are corrupt. Still interested? I can run it by sometime.
Joined: Wed 02-20-2002 11:27PM Posts: 867 Location: No one's really sure what became of Castorite after graduation
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Ouch.
Here's just a few ideas I'm tossing around.
I don't know anything about how your system is set up.
Is there any way you could hook up a cd-rom temporarily? Or is it one of those machines that's already pushed to the limits of the amount of peripherals it can hold? If you don't have a spare, I'm sure just about anyone here would lend you a drive for a few hours, as well.
If you can find the DOS drivers, that would be perfect for straight-through installation. Or, get a hold of a Linux boot disk (a la Slackware's boot/rootdisk system), use the default ATAPI CD-ROM driver, and copy the install files to the hard drive (assuming it's large enough...)
Alternatively, make imitation good disks to replace the bad ones. I'm not sure where you'd find good blank disks this time of night, though. Maybe Wal-Mart.
Based on what you've said, the operating system's probably been wiped already, so there's no way you can copy the files across the network.
Hmmm... interesting predicament.
Hope you find the disks or something that works!
Just so you don't feel alone with an ancient machine, If you do get it on floppy, can i make a copy somehow, my aunt really needs it and was asking if i had it the other day.
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Joined: Sat 04-06-2002 5:55PM Posts: 165 Location: Carbondale(ish), IL
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okay, I guess I should have been more specific. The "old machine" is a POS laptop that I used, as a freebsd xterm for a while. I bought a new one, and my sister wants this one with windows 95 on it. I've wiped the HDD and installed dos6.22 . In the process of installing 95 upgrade I came to find out most of the disks had deteriorated. I made images of the floppies, but the second image is bad. So to recap, I need to borrow either a full set of win95 disks, or disk2 for the windows95 upgrade.
I shared out the floppy version of Windows 95. Not sure if it is the second revision with USB support or not. It's not organized into disk images, but all the files are there, so you should be able to find the ones that you need.
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Joined: Sat 04-06-2002 5:55PM Posts: 165 Location: Carbondale(ish), IL
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and of course I spoke to soon. all of those files are too big for floppies, which I guess means you just shared the contents of a cd. oh well, guess I'll keep looking for that infamouse second disk, or a whole set.
Hmmm...well, it was labeled as the floppy version. I don't know why they wouldn't fit on a standard floppy...stupid Microsoft...
However, the precopy2.cab and win98_02.cab files are both small enough to fit on a disk individually. Will the floppy version installer let you copy them all to the hard drive and install from there? That could be a solution.
If that doesn't work, I also have Windows 3.11 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 that should fit on a couple floppies quite nicely...:)
Joined: Sat 04-06-2002 5:55PM Posts: 165 Location: Carbondale(ish), IL
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yeah, now that I look at my floppy images they are all 1.7 mb too, so they won't work. that also means I really don't have any way to get more disks 3-13 on to the hdd to install. Okay, time for a new plan. Doesn't anyone have a parallel cdrom drive with dos drivers I could borrow for a few hours?
Joined: Sat 04-06-2002 5:55PM Posts: 165 Location: Carbondale(ish), IL
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thanks, but I eventually got it. I booted with a slack install disk, copied the files to the dos partition over the network, and then rebooted and installed off the harddrive.
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