[ale] OT: Win95 Death March

[Robert Heaven]

Win95 does not have software built-in for zip and cdrom hardware. You'll 
have to get the drivers from the internet. The cdrom driver is called 
MSCDEX, I can't remember what the zip was called.

John Mills wrote:

>ALErs -
>
>I know of no MsWin equivalent to this mailing list, so please point me to
>a better resource if you know of one.
>
>I'm going &^%$@!! nuts trying to do a clean re-installation of Win95 from
>my original set of bootable Win95 on 3.5" diskettes. The problem is
>failure of Win95 installation to recognize my ZIP and CDROM drives on the
>secondary IDE channel.
>
>/dev/hda is MsWin95 C: (~2000 MBy) and D: (~1050 MBy).
>/dev/hdb is Linux (RH6.2)
>/dev/hdc is ZIP
>/dev/hdd is CDROM
>
>All are found fine by BIOS and Linux.
>
>Motherboard chipset is VIA, which has a set of drivers on CDROM.
>
>Once I got a proper configuration detected and installed, but then I found
>that my old DOS 'fdisk' had only set up a 500MBy C: partition. Each time
>I've gone back and partitioned C: to my target sizes, those two
>peripherals are lost in space.
>
>I have tried several variants, with and without /dev/hdb indicated in the
>BIOS as present, and everything else I can think of. This makes four times
>feeding 13 diskettes, then multiple reboots, etc.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Regards -
> John Mills
>
>
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