Win 95b boot disc needed

[MaCready]

Hello,

I'm trying to install the windows 95b operating system from a microsoft cd onto an older computer,

The win 95 boot disc I have does not enable the cd rom drive.

Where can I get a better win 95 boot disc that will enable the cd rom drive?

Thanks

[degsy]

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

[MaCready]

The bootdisk (win95b) does not auto load cd rom drivers like the wonderful win 98se bootdisk.

How exactly am I supposed to load a cd rom on a computer with no cd rom drive?


Thanks

[degsy]

The 95 disk from that site does load CD-ROM drivers.

If you are still in doubt then use a Win98 bootdisk.

[MaCready]

Actually I tried that allready and only ran into much bigger problems.

After trying to install win 98se about a hundred times onto this old computer and failing just as the operating system attempts to initialize for the first time and getting a fatal exception at...

I am attempting to install win 95 b pure as if win 98 se didn't exsist
,so while I thank you for your response,it's not the answers I'm looking for,theres another way to do it an thats the way I need help with.

You can't for instance use a 98se boot disc to install win 95,its just not right and isnt compatible.

The boot disc in question -win 95b for that bootdisk page has cd rom drivers but running the disk DOES NOT install them for you!

So I need to know what do do next...

[MaCready]

I stand corrected ,It does load a device driver,yet when I type
d:\ at the prompt I get invalid drive spec.

The autoexec.bat has been edited by the driver installation but it still does not enable the cd rom drive.

I can't manually edit anything either because no mouse driver is installed as well and the only dos mouse driver I have won't install on the system.

I guess this 1998 computer is on the cusp of being worthless,I had invested some money on various replacement parts to get it functional again.

:mad:

[degsy]

if you wish to edit the autoexec.bat then you can use keyboard commands.

At the dos prompt type
edit autoexec.bat

this will open autoexec.bat in the DOS text editor.

Use the ALT key to activate the Menu system.
Use the Arrow keys to maneuver.

[smurfy]

You can't for instance use a 98se boot disc to install win 95,its just not right and isnt compatible.
Wrong.
I never use anything else.
The danger is using a 98 bootdisk, enabling large disk support in FDISK and partitioning the disk as FAT32 when you intend using Win95/a which only supports FAT16.
95b will install on a 98se booted and formatted disk.

If during the boot with a 98 bootdisk you don't see any "device not found" errors, it has found and loaded the driver. You just need to pay attention to see what drive letter it is assigning. It may not be "D".

I think the other problem here may be that PC you are working on is non-standard.

Can you give us any more particulars on the system other than 1998?

[MaCready]

I tried the win 98se boot disk many times,no dice,fatal exceptions galore..

The system is from 1998,its an AMD-k6 233,6.4 gig HD,floppy,cdrom,
an old motherboard with really slow bus speed(66mhz).


This system is fatal exception /illegal operation city.

Nothing works like its supposed to.

I can't get win 95b loaded,
I can't get win 98se loaded.

Tried many many times,system goes fatal exception when operating system tries to initialize.

I'm going to throw it off a bridge real soon,lol