fdisk and format and installing win 95 pt. 2

[slingslingbinks]

sorry if i should update the last post, but i have something different to add and it's a bit different than the last post. and i should probibily put it in the for sale thread, but i want to buy something. so here it is. i'm having a problem installing win 95 on a falcon custom built computer, see my old post part one. any one got a,new. not a upgrade, leagle copy of win 95 on 3 1/2 floppy. i know that it's going to be about 30 disk's. if this thread is not proper, please drop it. if it's ok please, some one help me, thank's slinger

[slingslingbinks]

some thing else i thought that i'd add, i have a win 95, new install and not a upgrade cd-rom, is there any way to copy it to floppy disk, so i can install win 95, then load the cd-rom driver later tks slinger

[David_Jones]

Copy it to the HDD and intall from there.

[slingslingbinks]

thanks david jones, i first have to have the o/s installed first, right. c-ya slinger

[andyms18a]

boot with a win98 flopy with cdrom suport and at the a prompt type e:setup
note i youse the drive leter e becous when you boot from the floppy it creates a ram drive so your hdd will be c: the ram drive will be d: and cdrom will be e: if you have more than one hdd move the drive letter up to f: ect

[David_Jones]

I don't that will work andyms18a, if the CD-ROM drivers on the Win98 CD won't 'drive' his CD reader.

slingslingbinks:

Idea 1: Can you get a driver for your CD-ROM from the manufacturer, add it to a boot diskette, and go from there?

Idea 2: Have you got another PC that you can use to get the Win95 CD copied onto that HDD? If so, you could partition and format the one you want to install to, using FAT16 only, then connect the two PCs using Intersvr (free from MS - was an old DOS app to get two PCs to talk), and copy over the Win95 install files to the right PC.

HTH,

David.

[slingslingbinks]

thank's david jones, idea 1 sound's ok, can you give me some input from start to finish on adding the driver to the boot disk? c-ya slinger

[David_Jones]

Actually, I am really not sure!

I guess I would hope that the manufacturer's website might have instructions, else perhaps someone else here has done the same thing?

[reboot]

andyms18a's idea should work. Why wouldn't it?
There's only one reason why not. The CD is running off the sound card's IDE port.
You need to open the case, and see where the cabling goes.
If it's to the sound card, you need DOS drivers for the IDE port on the card, or you might get lucky and be able to slave the drive to the hard drive. It's possible it's a Sony or Panasonic drive, and you may have no luck, because the cable, and interface are not standard IDE.

[slingslingbinks]

the cd-rom run's off of the secondary ide connector off of the motherboard. i got the puter to boot up ok with a bootdisk from bootbisk.com, after i lealized, from your help. that they are on zip files and needed to b unziped. thank you all for your help.any other problem's will be made on a new thread. c-ya slinger