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  1. October 11th, 2002, 03:15 PM #1
    asm481
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    Win 95 floppies from CD

    Hey all is it possible to make the 13 gadzillion floppies for installing win95 from the win 95 CD?
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  2. October 11th, 2002, 03:32 PM #2
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    It would be cheaper and a whole lot easier if at all possible which I doubt, to pay £20 or so on e-bay for a full set with licence.
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  3. October 11th, 2002, 04:27 PM #3
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    BTW I forgot to mention you would also be in breach of your Windows licence should you attempt to do so.
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  4. October 11th, 2002, 04:53 PM #4
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    I have Win 95 on about a dozen or so floppies at work. Came that way from M$.
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  5. October 11th, 2002, 05:17 PM #5
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    Just use a boot disk and laplink the files over to the target drive.
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  6. October 11th, 2002, 06:19 PM #6
    Eagle PC Diagnostech
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    The floppy version of Windows95, is the "A" version only
    That was "The want-to-be 32bit operating system"
    It would be a lot easier to install a CD-ROM then to buy those floppies, and hopefully all of them are good.
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  7. October 11th, 2002, 06:37 PM #7
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    Hmmmm.......d`ont think so.
    I`m sure version B was issued on floppy too.
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  8. October 12th, 2002, 12:45 AM #8
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    You might still find a copy of Win95 on Ebay or Half.com in floppy format. Don't know how much it would cost however. Last time I checked the number of floppies was somewhere around 25.
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  9. October 12th, 2002, 06:10 AM #9
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    22 + boot disk
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  10. October 12th, 2002, 08:46 AM #10
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    windows95A only was available on floppy, it was 33 diskettes and was available mainly has preinstalled (they provide the labels, you provide the diskettes).

    The question is.... why?
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  11. October 12th, 2002, 11:40 AM #11
    Eagle PC Diagnostech
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    I have the original "A" version on floppies from Microsoft
    There are a total of 14 disks
    "B" version was only sold on CD-ROM, If you find it on diskettes, someone copied them!
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  12. October 16th, 2002, 07:14 AM #12
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    Just a thought but you could zip all the .cab files into one file then use AxMan split the files onto floppy....
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  13. October 16th, 2002, 12:33 PM #13
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    Originally posted by Eagle PC Diagnostech
    The floppy version of Windows95, is the "A" version only
    That was "The want-to-be 32bit operating system"
    It would be a lot easier to install a CD-ROM then to buy those floppies, and hopefully all of them are good.
    Also, floppy #1 is in that funky, non-standard format. I think it's 1.6mb or something like that. It can't be copied using normal methods.

    TL
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  14. October 16th, 2002, 12:47 PM #14
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    The format was 1.7MB. I used to have a program to format 1.44 to 1.7 but...........
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  15. October 16th, 2002, 07:51 PM #15
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    Winimage will take care of the funny format for you.
    If i recall correctly, the first floppy on the Win95a set was a standard 1.38Mb, and the remaining ones were 1.68 Mb format to discourage piracy (which it did ... for a week or so).
    I've never tried putting Win95b on floppies, but I suspect there are too many files other than the .cab files to fit on a single floppy. Expect problems with Setup not knowing where to find files.
    I second the suggestion of copying setup files to hard disk, a damn sight simpler!
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