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A few years ago when I was installing windows 95 on my old 486dx 100, I would start to install Win95... then when I set everything (software to install, hardware...) it would go to step 3 (install windows on hardrive)...but, it would loop back to the beginning of step 1 (Where would you like to put windows? C:\windows, other) over and over.... wierd eh?
how's your partition size?
Sounds like a personal question?
:)
DjM
I had a similar problem it was because I ran out of hard disk space. Installing windows95 on a 486 is always an adventure.
Win95 sucks the big one!
You must have a really small partition size if it wont fit 95 on it... I had a 386 DX with a 120 meg hdd running 95 so I dont know what it would be
The computer did not have a partitioned hardrive, it was a straight 800meg HD.
I got around it, somehow, but don't remember how.....
cwk9 is correct, installing win 95 on a 486 is always an adventure!
Remember the days when you had to install it via floppy disks? That was livin' large.
It was nothing much, what you did is boot from the CD, once you begin to install windows, it is designed for someone to do as little as possible, because the defualt choice will be selected to boot off of you HDD{when your computer restarts}, you should have let it boot from your HDD. If you selected boot from CD, it would do exactly what you just said. It will dump its previous configuration and start the windosw installation, off of the CD. I have seen this happen to multiple users who thought that they should contine off the CD, I would bet that is what you did.
one work around was always to install dos then to run memmaker this used to work for me
i built a 386 dx 40 with 120 meg hd and 4 meg ram for my kids and thats how i got it to run
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.
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.
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.
I believe what Avdven said....
Was what I did......Quote:
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.
Has anyone ever had any other wierd installation problems/phenomenon?
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
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....
I remember upgrading 3.1 to 95 with floppy disk on about 30 computers at work :killcompuQuote:
Originally posted here by bowlfreak
Remember the days when you had to install it via floppy disks? That was livin' large.
OUCH! I had done it once, with like 40 disks......
My sympathy goes out to you
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.......
sounds like my laptop..... except that I have 48mb ram and run 98... (never was a fan of 95)
The old 95 with 1.44 floppy's, what a pain. When it first came out everyone wanted it, but out of the 10 OS we ordered only two had workable diskets. The oher 8 were fubr. We finaly just baught the good set.
The same problem happened to me when i was trying to install win 98 on my 566... I was so angry and had to wipe the drive because I couldn't boot with a disk let alone try to bring up dos. I went to the Techie and took her disk and ended up wiping my hard drive and starting fresh with win 95 again.
Xenolithic, which problem did you have with 98? The loop thing or something else?
(In any case, that sucks you had to format....)