From: home@away.com   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:10:49 GMT, Danno    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >  Hi there,   
   >   I have an old 486dx2-33 with 4M RAM that I am trying to get Win95 onto.   
   I've   
   >got a 2G hard drive in it, have managed to get Linux down and using the whole   
   >drive, want to try and get Win95 down now.   
   >   I've got a 2.5" to 3.5" converter for installing the OS through a desktop   
   >box, as the laptop doesn't have a CD. Install goes well, I stick the drive   
   back   
   >into the laptop and boot with MaxBlastPLus 1.24 (Version 3 won't boot) from   
   the   
   >floppy, but it wants to format the drive. If I do that, I don't believe I can   
   >install the OS back in the desktop (finds a compressed filesystem or some such   
   >error).   
   >   Any suggestions as to how I can go about getting Win95 happening with the   
   >overlay software? It won't boot without it.   
   With that hard drive, have you tried this:   
   1. use FDISK, then FORMAT via the 2.5 to 3.5 convertor in the other PC   
   2.  Use sys to copy the basic boot files to the hard drive  Then copy   
   the Win95 innstall folder to a folder on the hard drive   
   3.  Move the hard drive to the laptop.   
   4.  Boot just using the hard drive boot files (no overlay)   
   3 Install Win95 from the folder on the hard drive   
      
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