Win 95 on floppy

[Brainchild]

Is there any way to make Win 95 floppies from the CD?I have an old machine I would like to put 95 on that has no CD-Rom,and no place to put one.So I would need it to act like the CD an install completely from floppy.Google was no help

[lynchmob]

I think those sets of floppies were of a non-standard size.
lynch

[slinky]

Those were pre-win 3.1 im pretty sure.

Have you tried hooking up an external cd drive? could save loads of time.

Good grief. Win2.1 was like 21 floppies. Are you sure you want to deal with the 100 it'd take for '95? If you had Ghost or something you could do a network ghost install... Maybe there's a way to boot from a floppy and install from the network anyway?

[shahani]

No, win 3.1 was on 7 disks. Win95 came on like 20 disks. These were regular 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disks formatted (dmf ??) for 1.68MB.

There are utilities available to format 1.44MB disks to 1.68MB. I'd do a google to find one, format like 20 disks and copy files from the CD.

The list of which files go where is probably available on MS site or somewhere on the web. I'd try but I'm leaving just now and will try and search also in next few days.

But, remember floppies are notorious for getting bad sectors and frequently become unreadable.

The Win 3.11 for workgroups I had was 21 disks. I'm not kidding. Raar and all that.

[lynchmob]

Originally posted by shahani
No, win 3.1 was on 7 disks. Win95 came on like 20 disks. These were regular 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disks formatted (dmf ??) for 1.68MB.

There are utilities available to format 1.44MB disks to 1.68MB. I'd do a google to find one, format like 20 disks and copy files from the CD.

The list of which files go where is probably available on MS site or somewhere on the web. I'd try but I'm leaving just now and will try and search also in next few days.

But, remember floppies are notorious for getting bad sectors and frequently become unreadable.

Heres a link to the file list Shahnai is talking about.Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
HTH
lynch

[vfrxsw]

Here is one way to do it
http://www.btinternet.com/~robert.ba...in95backup.htm

[nunyadam]

why not just hook up the hard drive as a slave in another computer and copy the disk to it . then reinstal the hard drive in the other computer as master. boot from floppy, switch to the c:/ drive and type setup?

[Ed_S]

BC, do you have access to a parallel port Zip drive? If so, it's easy to install 95-98 w/o a cd drive - I've done it on my (don't laugh) 486 laptop, which has a tiny HD, too small to hold the install files and a working OS.

With the drive hooked up to a machine with a cd, copy the windows folder from CD to a zip - it'll fit fine.
Switch the drive to the destination PC. Boot using Iomega "guest" software on a floppy.
Install directly from the zip disk.

Takes quite a while - think hours - but it works! And honestly, install time isn't really an issue, is it? Once started you just hit a key now & then in passing anyway, it's not like you've got to stay & babysit the thing...