[ale] OT: Win95 Death March

[Luis Luna]

Hi John,
Windows doesn't have built-in zip / cd-rom drivers. Do you have the
install disk for the cd-rom? Install the cd-rom driver onto the boot
disk. What I mean is boot off the win95 boot disk, then run the install
program for the cd-rom and take out the cd-rom install disk and insert
the win95 boot disk back in. Point the install program to the floppy,
let it do it's stuff, then re-boot off the win95 again. You should see
the cd-rom now.

Luis Luna

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Mills [mailto:jmmills at telocity.com] 
>Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 1:04 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>Subject: [ale] OT: Win95 Death March
>
>
>ALErs -
>
>I know of no MsWin equivalent to this mailing list, so please 
>point me to a better resource if you know of one.
>
>I'm going &^%$@!! nuts trying to do a clean re-installation of 
>Win95 from my original set of bootable Win95 on 3.5" 
>diskettes. The problem is failure of Win95 installation to 
>recognize my ZIP and CDROM drives on the secondary IDE channel.
>
>/dev/hda is MsWin95 C: (~2000 MBy) and D: (~1050 MBy).
>/dev/hdb is Linux (RH6.2)
>/dev/hdc is ZIP
>/dev/hdd is CDROM
>
>All are found fine by BIOS and Linux.
>
>Motherboard chipset is VIA, which has a set of drivers on CDROM.
>
>Once I got a proper configuration detected and installed, but 
>then I found that my old DOS 'fdisk' had only set up a 500MBy 
>C: partition. Each time I've gone back and partitioned C: to 
>my target sizes, those two peripherals are lost in space.
>
>I have tried several variants, with and without /dev/hdb 
>indicated in the BIOS as present, and everything else I can 
>think of. This makes four times feeding 13 diskettes, then 
>multiple reboots, etc.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Regards -
> John Mills
>
>
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