re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 2:11 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Randy (3 messages posted) How then does it work with Win95? I actually began copying the Win98 CD to floppies using winzip and it was HUGE!! I stopped it after about 10 floppies were filled up... On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 11:11 am, Oh_Dear wrote: >I doubt this will work. The Win98 install routine is designed & programmed to work >from the CD. If you did split the CD onto floppies, you would have to know exactly >which files go on which floppy AND some Win98 CD install files are too big for a >floppy. (Install from floppies can be done with Win95 however). > >If you are able to link the laptop to another PC/laptop with a CD, yo could copy >the \Win98 folder from the Win98 CD onto the hard drive of your laptop and install >from there. (The file transfer can be done with a program like LapLink -DOS version). > >Last, are you sure the laptop has enough memory, drive space for Win98? > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Oh_dear: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 11:11 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Oh_dear: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 3:59 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Randy: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 5:23 am) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Susan: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 6:00 am) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Oh_dear: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 11:11 am) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Randy: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 2:11 pm) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Oh_dear: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 3:59 pm) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (JmC: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 5:36 pm) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (GM: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 7:01 pm) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Oh_dear: Tue, Jan 28, 2003, 7:18 pm) re: Question about 'How do I store files on floppies that are too large to fit?' (Randy: Wed, Jan 29, 2003, 12:05 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum