Windows 95 CD?

[jokersmild]

I have the windows 95 CD, but I do not have the disks. This is a problem because I have a customer that has a stack of old Dells that need an operating system. I tried putting a CD in them, but it didn't work. my only option is to use the original win 95 disks, but I don't have them. I only have the cd. I moved all the .cab files over to floppys using rawwrite, but I don't know what is on the original startup disk. I made a guess, but I get the message "ntdr not found". Maybe somebody out there could tell me what files are on the original startup disk?

Thanks

 

[wolluf]

Do you need win95 installation on floppy disks or do you just need a win95 boot floppy with CD support to start the installation? If the second, you can get one from here

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm.

If the first, I think there was another thread on this topic recently. If I remember rightly, the first disk should be bootable, and is a normal 1.44 rather than the 1.68 formatted disk - but I haven't got a set of these disks so don't know what goes on it.

 

[edfair]

First is 1.44, rest are DMF , and registration information is encoded in the boot sector of disk 2, so if you are installing on multiple, you need to have disk 2s for each machine.

You could also use a Win98 boot disk to get access to the CD, or you could mix and match drivers from a 98boot to a 95 boot to get the access.
Just be aware that certain 98 fdisk leave a media byte thet 95 can't see. So you want to fdisk and format with 95.

Ed Fair
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[jrbarnett]

The windows 95 Setup program is a bit dumb. If you can access the CD-ROm from a bootdisk, fdisk and format the hard drive, and copy the CABS directory from CD to the hard drive and run SETUP.EXE from there to speed things up a bit.

John

 

[drdebit]

I've had about half a dozen P1 dell 90s to 166s purchased from a local surplus store. I think they were 850mg to 1gb harddrives.
I settled on the steps I listed in thread615-457980 to get win95 going on them.
The other thing that will work really slick for you if these are all basically the same machine (maybe diff cpu speeds but same sound chip, video chip etc )
is to get one harddrive set up and going properly and then use drive image or ghost to copy the rest of the drives-large cut in time.

I used a version of drive image i got out of 11th ed of upgrading and repairing pcs, have later acquired ghost, both worked fine for that process.
Hope this helps.
good luck.