i want setup win95 on a486 pentium notebook over anetwork

[mainframe19]

so how do i set up a network with os/2 warp to winme to install win95 on to the notebook


any help whould be great!

[AlphaWolf]

A 486 pentium? WTF?

[mightyrocket]

He means an Intel 486

[mainframe19]

it's a 486 70mhz 40mb of ram and 1.2gb hd.

right now i am trying to get win95 on it.

any one know aeasy way of doing it??

[mainframe19]

i get this program to big to fit in memory error!
when i try to run scandisk.

and when i run fdisk my 486 notebook just sits there
after reading the disk.

[AlphaWolf]

Why don't you just boot from a win95 cd?

[URAMetroid]

AlphaWolf, older notebooks don't have CD-ROM's, plus Win95 CD's aren't bootable.
But I did come up with two ways to get the install files on that notebook.

First, you can copy the Win95 directory off the CD on to a lot of floppy's (Note: you will need an old copy of MS-Backup (to fit large files on a floppy disk)) on both the PC with a CD-ROM and the notebook).

And the only network support you may get in DOS is interlnk and intersvr (also found on the Win95 CD), but I don't think it will work with Ethernet based networks (or I'm wrong)

Intersvr - is a DOS based server program
Interlnk - is a DOS based client for Intersvr (loads on boot up in the config.sys file)
Note: Interlnk and Intersvr works like DCC for windows

For more info on how to setup intersvr and interlnk (and the files) goto this site
http://www.indiacam.net/pinout/interlinkdatatransfer.htm

Edit: if you need any help, just reply
Note: I have a lot of 486 and 586 (AKA: Pentium) PC's, so I could help you out.

[AlphaWolf]

AlphaWolf, older notebooks don't have CD-ROM's, plus Win95 CD's aren't bootable.
But I did come up with two ways to get the install files on that notebook.


Mine was bootable, and it was just the stupid upgrade version. And there were lots of external CD drives for laptops back then.

Even if you can't boot the CD, just boot a floppy and run the setup.exe on the cd from dos, it works fine even on the upgrade.

[URAMetroid]

OK, I also have the upgrade, I'll see if it boots in my P4.
But CD-ROMs in DOS require DOS drivers, and my version of Windows 95 never had DOS CD-ROM drivers.
Note: my old 75 MHz Pentium already had DOS drivers for everything on it.

[mainframe19]

well my notebook will not read my win95 cd, no matter what i try :(
......any one know of any other good os that i can run some gb&gbc emus on?along with zsnes.

thanks for the help!

[Tagrineth]

Mine was bootable, and it was just the stupid upgrade version. And there were lots of external CD drives for laptops back then.

Even if you can't boot the CD, just boot a floppy and run the setup.exe on the cd from dos, it works fine even on the upgrade.
Only OEM copies of Windows releases will boot from the CD.

The first retail Windows to boot from CD was Windows 2000, AFAIR.

And why the devil do you have an Upgrade CD?

[nephalim]

well my notebook will not read my win95 cd, no matter what i try :(
......any one know of any other good os that i can run some gb&gbc emus on?along with zsnes.

thanks for the help!
DOS.

[URAMetroid]

DOS.
nephalim is right, DOS 7.0 is the best for EMU's on older notebook's, I use following EMU's on my 75 MHz notebook:
NESticle - for NES
NO$GMB - for GB, SGB and GBC, GBC part is shareware, it only work for about 5 min, unless you find a Licence.key file on the net.
ZSNES - you know it's for SNES, but it will run very bad on a 486.

[mainframe19]

am downloading xwindows.is xwindows any good??

[URAMetroid]

AFAIK, XWindows is a GUI for Linux, unless if you want too run Linux?

[AlphaWolf]

Hmm...now that I think about it, w95 upgrade might not be bootable, but I am absolutely certain that w98 was, because I just installed it on somebodys system.

btw, xwindows is the protocol used for the communication between graphical windows and the user in a unix environment (works better than microsofts message based system in that it doesn't have a huge security vulnerability known as the "shatter" exploit, and it is network aware), the actual program that draws the graphics is xfree86.

[URAMetroid]

Hmm...now that I think about it, w95 upgrade might not be bootable, but I am absolutely certain that w98 was, because I just installed it on somebodys system.

btw, xwindows is the protocol used for the communication between graphical windows and the user in a unix environment (works better than microsofts message based system in that it doesn't have a huge security vulnerability known as the "shatter" exploit, and it is network aware), the actual program that draws the graphics is xfree86.
No, my Win95 upgrade CD isn't bootable at all, but my OEM Win98SE CD is bootable, also I just made a bootable DOS 6.2 CD.
And your right, xfree86 is for the GUI not XWindows, sorry about that.

[mainframe19]

upgrande to msdos710

where can i find this file.

[URAMetroid]

MS-DOS 7.0 is what Windows95 is based on, it can be found on a Win95 boot disk.
And did you get my PM?

[mainframe19]

yes.now i got this new dumb error that says wrong
command.com, i have tryed all the boot disks on bootdisk.com but i still get these 2 dumb errors..1 upgrade to msdos7 or higher, i do a sys with a win98 disk, and get the 2error that i can't use this command.com with this version of windows..win95 is playing head games with me.....

[mainframe19]

is there a switch in winme setup to trick it into installing it onto a 486 75mhz 40mb 1.2gb hd with cdr-rom pc? like a switch? like setup /is/iq
in win95??

[nephalim]

You can run Dos 7 standalone??

[mainframe19]

i want to windows, cause my note book had os2 on it,and it had sound in os2.dos don't have sound.my note book has a onboard sound card.