Re: Install win95 from a hard disk?

Yes, in fact that's the preferred way to do it even if you have a CD-ROM. What you want to move to the laptop is the entire \Win95 folder, although in fact you may not need some of it's subdirectories. You want to leave \Win95 on the hard drive even after it's installed, as it's the "registered install location" of the installation and it will keep you from being asked for the CD or floppies later (when you add a printer or change a network setting, for example).

Note: There may be some CDs whose setup program is a windows program that won't work under DOS. I kind of doubt it for 95, but it's at least remotely possible. The Sparq will work fine for moving it, in fact for 95 it's small enough that it can be done with an old 100MB zip disk (for some versions it took two passes, but the total size of the \Win95 folder is right around 100MB).


steve wrote:
Hi,
I have win95 on a cdrom but the laptop I want to install it on T2100 only has a floppy drive. If I can move the win95 set up files to the laptop hard disk can I install it from there? Which of the large number of file son a win95 cdrom do I need?
I do have a sparq 1Gb drive that can be connected by parallel cable. I think I can move the contents of the cdrom via that to the laptop.

regards Steve
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