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no cdrom on laptop

I don,t have a cd rom for my laptop but i do on my desk top and i don't have win95 on my Lt i have a copy if it on cdrom is there any way to copy it to the 28 3.5in floppies that microsoft gives us the labels for when we purchase it

busuka

You need to format your floppies to so-called DMF format. Check
http://www.simtel.net (or http://www.coast.net) Software Repository,
MS-DOS section. It has many utils that can format floppy to DMF
format (2M), then manually copy all Win95 files from CD to floppies,
copy them to some directory on laptop and run Setup.
If you have LPT cable, you can copy files from desktop to laptop
using Interlnk/Intersvr from DOS to transfer files.

animal

ASKER

Thanks buzuka i'll grade it after i try it and know how it works out but after all the3 people i've asked your the only one that could give me an answer!

animal

ASKER

buzuka is there a list of the files that i need to copy to the floppies or is it the 200meg file for win95 i'm hoping not to use 100 disks in this process

busuka

No, Win95 installation is about 30-35 MB. I don't remember exactly
what are they (I have upgrade version) but usually they are .CAB
files (include SHELL.CAB, PRECOPY.CAB ...) and several EXEs. I'll
look at home and post list here.

BTW, where you got 200M file ? Also: you can't install already
installed version, in other words: you can't pack installed Win95
and put it on other computer. You need installation CD/floppies.

busuka

Here is list (from my CD-backup):

m:\WIN95ENG\deltemp.com
m:\WIN95ENG\dossetup.bin
m:\WIN95ENG\extract.exe
m:\WIN95ENG\mini.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\precopy1.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\precopy2.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\readme.txt
m:\WIN95ENG\save32.com
m:\WIN95ENG\scandisk.exe
m:\WIN95ENG\scandisk.pif
m:\WIN95ENG\scanprog.exe
m:\WIN95ENG\setup.exe
m:\WIN95ENG\setup.txt
m:\WIN95ENG\smartdrv.exe
m:\WIN95ENG\suhelper.bin
m:\WIN95ENG\wb16off.exe
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_02.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_03.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_04.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_05.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_06.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_07.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_08.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_09.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_10.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_11.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_12.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_13.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_14.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_15.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_16.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\win95_17.cab
m:\WIN95ENG\winsetup.bin
m:\WIN95ENG\xmsmmgr.exe

animal

ASKER

thanks buzuka you've been a great help if you'll put in a one word answer to lock this question i'll grade you i opened it back up so that you would notice it one more question though what is the best dmf format program to use?

jlove1

just copy every file in the d:\win95 directory.. That should be at least a start.

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animal

ASKER

thanks buzuka i give you an a first because you're the only one that could give me a straight answer and second because it worked perfectly thank you very much

animal

ASKER

jlove1 that's about 300mb of files no thanks