How To Install Windows 95 Using Cd As Collateral
So I have an extra 500GB drive that i know I am never going to use and I would like to install as many OS's as I possible can. So far I have MS DOS 7.10 on a 1GB partition on it and I will be using grub4dos to boot all those OS's. Anyway I am starting with Windows 95 SE. It installed perfectly no problems there but when I try and boot into Windows 95 I get this error 'Not enough extended memory available to start windows'. I tried booting straight into it and booting it from MS-DOS.
I have heard some problems with win 95 and modern pcs with the cpu being over 300mhz and stuff but I am not getting any of those errors. Just the memory one. Thanks:) Edit: Ok I found the problem. MS-DOS is using all the XMS memory. No idea why it is doing that.
Edit #2: Ok I fixed the problem but now i am getting 'Windows Protection Error. Please reboot your computer'. To DAVEINCAPS: I tried the memory things and it still didn't work. Also I can not do the NDIS fix because I can't even boot into safe mode it just goes straight to the error even if i hold F8. I also tried to under clock my cpu to 2.0ghz just to see if that would fix it but it didn't. To JAM: The reason I am installing windows 95 is because I want to install all the OS's that I think I made a difference in the history of home computing.
Windows 95 made a diff because it had the first true windows gui. If you can't get it to the desktop, the only other thing I can think of is to put the drive in another-much slower, much less ram-PC and boot it up there. Then install the NDIS patch and anything else that needs to be done with 95 up and running. Then move the drive back to the faster PC.
Installing Windows 95/98 on a. Before you can begin to install Windows 95 or Windows 98 on a empty. To do this insert the WINDOWS CD-ROM into the CDROM. Clean Install of Windows 95 to Windows 98SE. Then install Windows 98 SE from CD. Get a boot diskette with CD support from www.bootdisk.com, if necessary.
I recommend you copy the msconfig files from 98 and install them so you have that feature. There is a memory limiting option there too. If you can't find a download for msconfig I can email the files. 9X isn't like newer OS's that give a BSOD if you move a drive to another PC so that should work OK, if you have such a PC available. You're not really green until you're soylent green.
Installing Windows 95 Installing Windows 95/98 on a new empty hard disk. To install Windows on an new computer with an empty hard disk the following steps are required:. If Windows is to be installed onto a brand new hard disk which has never before been used, then hard disk must be before it can be used. Because a computer with an empty hard disk will not boot up (as there is no operating system on the hard disk), before you can begin to install Windows 95 or Windows 98 on a empty machine you will need to create a special boot floppy that can be used to start up the new computer. You must create this disk on another working Window 95 or Windows 98 computer. This disk can be created by the following four steps. 1 To start an MSDOS window Choose MS-DOS prompt from the start menu or choose ‘RUN’ from the start menu and then enter the filename ‘command’ as the program to be run.: A bootable floppy disk can created from the MS-DOS prompt by either of the following two commands:.
Sys a: (This command will add system files to a floppy without destroying existing data). Format a:/s (This command will wipe out any data already on the floppy disk.) The following MSDOS utility programs will be needed and must be copied onto the disk. As a minimum you should have at least:. Fdisk.exe.
Format.com. Nicolas Villebrun. Edit.com. Edit.dat. mscdex.exe.
These utility files can be usually be found in the c: windows command folder on the hard disk of any windows 95/98 computer. It is important to note however that you should only use the utility files from the same computer that you used to make up the boot disks. Utility files from other version of the same operating system may not work. These files can be coped with the MSDOS commands Copy c: windows command fdisk.exe a:. Copy c: windows command format.com a:. Copy c: windows command edit.com a:. Copy c: windows command edit.hlp a:.
Copy c: windows command mscdex.exe a:. The boot disk will need a device driver file that matches your CD-ROM. These files can be different for each make and model of CD-ROM. However usually modern CD-ROMs can work with any ATAPI standard driver. If you did not get a device driver file with your CD-ROM you can usually get a compatible one from another machine. The name of the CDROM device driver can vary. However they will always have the file extension.SYS.
For example NECIDE.SYS or ATAPICD.SYS If this file was found on the root disk of a machine for example it could be copied to the floppy disk with the command Copy c: ATAPICD.SYS a: To enable the CD-ROM you must load the device driver for the CDROM and then run the Microsoft CD ROM extension patch ‘MSCDEX.EXE’. To do this create a text file called ‘Config.sys’ in the root folder of the floppy disk by typing in the command: Edit a: config.sys Enter a line to load the device driver in the editor. This line will look like: Device=ATAPICD.SYS/D:CD01 The /D does not refer to disk d:, it is simply a label that will be used to link the device driver to the MSCDEX command. Save this file to disk and then reboot the machine with the floppy disk in the drive You must still however type in the following command to make the CD-ROM available after the machine starts up. MSCDEX/D:CD01 Note that the label that you supply to the MSCDEX program must be the same as the label that you specified to the device driver in the config.sys file. Note that the above command ‘MSCDEX/D:CD01’ could be entered into a text file called ‘AUTOEXEC.BAT’ if you do this then the command will execute automatically each time the computer reboots.
As part of the process of, a hard disk can be divided up into anything from one to four logical hard disk partitions. However even if a hard disk is to be used as a single logical hard disk it must still be partitioned before it can be used. The act of partitioning creates the partition table.
A hard disk cannot be used unless it contains a partition table. This partition table tells the BIOS how the disk should be divided up and where it should load the operating system from.
The FDISK program can be used to partition a disk. After booting up the computer with your boot floppy disk run the fdisk program this can be done by typing in the command ‘FDISK’. If you have used Windows98 or a later version of Windows 95 to make up your boot disk you will be asked if you want to enable large disk support. If you answer ‘yes’ to this question then any partition that you create will be of type FAT32 if you answer ‘no’ then any partition that you create will be of type FAT16. Each have different benefits under different circumstances. It is important to note that at this stage the partitions are marked as being of one or another, the file system is not actually laid out until the partition is formatted.
Choose to create your partition by selection from the menu. If you wish to have your entire disk work as a single partition then you must ensure to make that disk a partition a primary DOS partition.
You must also use the menu to ensure that the partition that you wish to boot form is marked as ' active'. Note however that IF you choose to use the whole hard disk as a single partition then the FDISK program will automatically mark that partition as active.
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After quitting form the FDISK program it is important that you reboot the machine before continuing. When the machine restarts you must format the new hard disk partition before it can be used. This can be done by typing in the command ‘FORMAT c:/s’. Note that this task will take some time to complete. The /S qualifier used in this command also puts the operating system onto the hard disk after it has been formatted. Windows 95 and 98 are best installed from the hard disk rather than from CD-ROM. This will save users having to search for the installation CDROM if they make minor changes to the configuration of the computer.
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To do this insert the WINDOWS CD-ROM into the CDROM driver and then type in the following commands: MD WIN95 CD WIN95 COPY D: WIN95. If you are using Windows 98 rather than Windows 95 simply substitute the numbers 98 for 95 in the above example. To begin installing Windows 95/98 run the setup program by typing in the command C: win95 setup for Windows 95 or C: win98 setup for Windows 98. Windows will take over the installation form this point and prompt for all necessary inputs.