re: win95 cd to floppy
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lee
(172 messages posted)
I never heard from you so I can't help with your currently installed version unless
you just get lucky here. I did find some involved instructions still on the web
though.
95b to floppy
This proved to be the most helpful link around. Be sure to visit the google groups
link inside as it really shows how to get a full working 95b set of install floppies
straight off the CD. MicroSoft made it so easy that it can't be any coincidence!
The same is then also true of 98 Gold OEM CDROM - with the exact same sized cab
files! THAT's why I've never seen any 98 Gold installation floppies for sale around
anywhere - you need some, you just make some.
All you really need outside the Windows installation CD is a method to format disks
with 1,716,224 free bytes in order to store the exact same sized cab files on. I
used 98 boot to DOS mode and first loaded fdread and then used fdformat with the
following switches to get that exact size:
fdformat a: c4 d2 f168
That's a cluster size of four sectors or 2048 bytes (same size as a CDROM sector),
and a directory that can only hold 16 files reserving the rest of a standard 224
entry directory for actual file storage. And the f168 tells fdformat to use 21 sectors
per track instead of the normal 18. The result is a disk with 1,716,224 bytes free.
fdformat and fread are both inside of fdfrm18.zip (see inside link above), I just
put them in my temp folder and I was off like a shot. Unlike maxidisk or winimage,
fdformat is free. I would also use fdread loaded to then copy the cab files
onto the floppy disks just in case it might make a difference. When I tried some
of the same operations with just Win95 from a floppy disk loaded, I got garbage on
the screen with some disk formats that I was trying out. himem.sys loaded via config.sys
helped a bunch there and loading himem.sys like that at 95 installation is also a
needed thing to do.
I did not have any luck with the original 13 disk set issued by MS with 95a on it.
It's a reduced file set version of 95a at that as well. I'm thinking it's not worth
it when for a few floppies more you can have 95b or 98 Gold. I could use my script
to make a set of 98se or WinME floppy disks though.
- Written in response to:
- win95 cd to floppy (marsi: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10:37 am)
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