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April 3rd, 2002, 01:53 AM
#11
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Last job I had was network installs. Part of the fun was to bring clients into the new millenium by getting rid of their DOS boot disk workstations attaching to a Novell 3.x server. Nothing says modern technology than using DOS 6.22 on a computer.
\"No matter where you go,
there you are.\"
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April 3rd, 2002, 02:02 AM
#12
I had the same sort of problem installing to a 486dx with a 1.2 GB hard drive. What I ended up doing was starting up via a bootdisk and formatting the hard drive. Once I had done that, I simply copied the necessary files (located in the Win95 directory of the CD-ROM) onto a folder on the hard drive. Once the files were copied (which took a while because of the slow speed of the computer and CD-ROM drive), I installed Windows from the hard drive and had no problem from that point on.
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April 3rd, 2002, 02:08 AM
#13
Junior Member
I have a 386DX that I use for a door stop! But then again I still have a functional C64 and C128. Damn, I feel dated.
[shadow] Of all the things I\'ve lost, I miss my mind the most. - Ozzy :[/shadow]
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April 3rd, 2002, 03:36 AM
#14
I believe what Avdven said....
I simply copied the necessary files (located in the Win95 directory of the CD-ROM) onto a folder on the hard drive. Once the files were copied (which took a while because of the slow speed of the computer and CD-ROM drive), I installed Windows from the hard drive and had no problem from that point on.
Was what I did......
Has anyone ever had any other wierd installation problems/phenomenon?
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April 3rd, 2002, 03:43 AM
#15
I had a Windows 95 horror story on a friend's 486. We installed Windows 95 via the CD-ROM (which was one of the old models with it's own ISA controller card). Windows installed perfectly, but as soon as Windows booted up on it's own, the CD-ROM was gone. Absolutely no where to be found. After doing a lot of research on a relatively new operating system (Windows 95 was still brand new at the time), I learned that I still had to manually load the DOS drivers for the CD-ROM and it's controller card via the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files.
Another one occured actually not that long ago. I was trying to install Windows 98 to an old computer, but the 98 boot disk did not detect the CD-ROM. When I tried to run the driver installation program that came with the computer, it said that the program could not be installed unless Windows was open. I was caught in a Catch-22 (needed CD-ROM to install Windows, but needed Windows to install CD-ROM). Eventually, I just scrapped the CD-ROM and used one from another computer and it worked fine.
AJ
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April 3rd, 2002, 08:06 PM
#16
That would suck getting stuck in that catch 22 problem....
It's kinda dumb how newer stuff doesn't like to run in a 16bit atmosphere....
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April 3rd, 2002, 08:11 PM
#17
Originally posted here by bowlfreak
Remember the days when you had to install it via floppy disks? That was livin' large.
I remember upgrading 3.1 to 95 with floppy disk on about 30 computers at work
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April 4th, 2002, 06:07 AM
#18
OUCH! I had done it once, with like 40 disks......
My sympathy goes out to you
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April 4th, 2002, 07:28 PM
#19
Damn Win32 95 have bugs.... It's funny to read about all that funny stuff you can make with a win32 95 user.... BTW: I run Win32 95 on my laptop....... It have also 8 mb ram and a CPU on 120 Mhz.......
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April 4th, 2002, 08:23 PM
#20
sounds like my laptop..... except that I have 48mb ram and run 98... (never was a fan of 95)
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