Anyone have Win 95 on 3.5" floppies?

[Eagler]

bug
we love u too

Ghost
thanks but no, non-drinking type here
just trying to help

[Eagler]

Ghosth

did you ever get the disks?
found out my wife shipped them via slow boat to China. If you haven't received them, you should soon - hope not too late..

[Ghosth]

Recieved Yest, no rush, slow boat was just fine sir!

A thousand thanks & yell if I can ever return the favor.

[sling322]

Originally posted by Ghosth
Eagler, have 3 copys of dos here, np on that end.

Sure I can't send you a quart of homebrew by way of thank you?

You can send me his quart of homebrew.  

[Ghosth]

LOL Sling I have some Crab Apple wine that is so hvy bodied its almost like a liquor only low alcohol content.

Clear yellow, wonderfull nose, taste beyond description.

Come on up & pick it up bro  

Have a quart with your name on it.
Plus a 6 pack of Scottish Ale, around ohhh 10.5 %  

[sling322]

You gotta be nuts.  Its like cold in North Dakota.  I am a Texas guy.....I dont get along well in cold weather.  

Besides, thats a long drive.....but it is for beer.  

You gonna try to make the con this time around?

[Psyco]

Hey Ghosth, I live in Winnipeg, next time (spring) me and the missus (MsPsyco) take a run down to Fargo to Grandma's Saloon, you and your missus should join us for a drink and shoot the breeze about AH et al......, or conversely, if you're your ever up in Winnipeg enjoying 157% on your American dollar while shopping etcetera, give us a shout.

Psyco

[Ghosth]

Psycho

Would love to meet up.
I'm aprox 2 miles from Grandma's.

We have been to Winnipeg but $ are a bit tight here right now. Will keep you in mind if we go to KeyCon this spring.

My email's listed, give me a shout when your headed this direction.

[Ghosth]

Sling,

You telling me a FDB won't drive for something like 18 hours for some of what could be the worlds best beer?

Sigh

[Ghosth]

Eagler

Opperation was a success sir.
Notebook is up & running on win 95,.
Delivered back to owner.

Many thanks sir, you want disks back? or save them for the next guy who needs em???

[Eagler]

hang on to them and pass on the favor to the next guy that needs one

[bloom25]

I have another solution for you if the disks do not end up working.

Go to a computer store and buy a laptop hard drive converter and install the drive into any pc.  (They are sometimes called a "buskit" or 2.5" to 3.5" hard drive adapter.)  Then do the following:

Using a win95 boot disk, start the desktop with cd rom support.  Run fdisk on the laptop drive.  Reboot.  Start with cd rom support again and format the laptop drive.  mkdir a directory on the laptop drive called win95.  cd into that directory (cd win95).  Copy the .cab files off the windows 95 cd (in the win95 directory) into the win95 directory on the hard drive.  (Make sure you are in the win95 directory on the hard drive and type "copy e:\win95\" where e: is the drive letter for the cd rom drive - it may not be e:)  You should see the files being transfered into the win95 directory on the hard drive.  This will use up about 100 MB of space.

Now simply turn the system off and put the laptop drive back in the laptop.  Start the laptop off a boot disk and simply cd into the win95 directory and type "setup."  (Note that if your windows 95 disk was an upgrade version you will need have have windows 3.1 floppies available.  I can't remember if win95 asks for more than disk 1, but I do know that win98 asks for all 5.)

One benefit of installing windows 95 (or 98, 98se, and me) in this manner is that the install will complete much faster and you will never need your windows disks again.  If you are prompted for a windows cd or disk, just point the system to the win95 folder on the hard drive.

[bloom25]

LOL, I guess I should have read the thread before posting.

[Ghosth]

LOL

Thats ok Bloom, we've all done it.