re: Win95 on a IBM 330-P60 without cdrom?
Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 3:52 pm
Posted by Kiwi
(2207 messages posted)
A PC as old as the one you are dealing with isn't typically going to include an option
to boot from a CD. Windows98 is a superior OS, if a system is powerful enough for
it, but there never was (TTBOMK) a floppy-based install for W98.
Windows95's floppy install was on 13 floppies, of which 12 were special format items
holding 2 Mb's each. There was no install version with "30" floppies. Only the
original, very first version of W95 was ever offered that way; generally speaking,
W95 was a kludge. OSR2 was quite a bit better, but available only on CD.
See Pappy's Link to one of the sources for a downloadable "image" of a boot disk.
There is a fairly wide variety of choices, but all are downloaded to your internet
computer's hard drive, and then you RUN them to generate the image that will be written
to a boot floppy.
Optical drives were first available as "plain" readers, and later as CD-R drives.
The term you used twice was never used. CD-R drives would eventually also read
and write to RW media. DVD drives are closely related, and also started as just
readers, then as DVD-R and/or DVD+R (plus the odd "DVD-RAM" variety), passing through
DVD-RW/+RW on their way to current double layer capability.
With the correct W95 or W98 CD, *any* type of optical drive should work as an install
source.
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Kiwi
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On Monday, November 1, 2004 at 7:32 am, ALISTAIR WATTS wrote:
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