Installing Win95 from DOS

jet777 · #1 November 15th, 2003, 01:50 AM

Hi I just got an old Sharp PC6600, 386SX, 40Mb, 20MHz laptop (free). What command do i enter at the C: prompt to load Win95 from a floppy?
Thanks in advance for any advise.

BigPapaTaco · #2 November 15th, 2003, 03:13 AM

I'm surprised anyone has a win95 diskette that works. I think that Disk 1 is bootable.

Topdog · #3 November 15th, 2003, 05:39 AM

Two choices:
1. Type A: and at the A:\> prompt type Setup (with disk #1 in the A: drive of course).
2. At the C:\> prompt type A:\ Setup (Again with Disk #1 in the A: drive)

Alfons · #4 November 15th, 2003, 12:33 PM

I don't believe a 386 is compatible with W95. If you are able to sneak by the CPU, you probably won't get past the memory requirements - very few 386s had more than 2megs of RAM, which was a lot then since most machines ran on 640Kb. W3.11 will run on it, and you can get all the additional pieces (such as TCP/IP, new IE, etc.) to make it Internet compatible.

renegade600 · #5 November 15th, 2003, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfons

I don't believe a 386 is compatible with W95. If you are able to sneak by the CPU, you probably won't get past the memory requirements - very few 386s had more than 2megs of RAM, which was a lot then since most machines ran on 640Kb. W3.11 will run on it, and you can get all the additional pieces (such as TCP/IP, new IE, etc.) to make it Internet compatible.

386dx is compatible,386 sx is not, see
win95 however, stranger things have been known to happen.