Trouble installing Win95 in VCD2004

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John Gordon - 30 Jan 2004 19:24 GMT

Could someone help me with this Problem.
I have completed an Install of Win95, however it will not
let me Install the VCD Tools.
In Device Manager I have Yellow Astrix's beside Quite a
few Devices such as IDE Controllers etc.
I have no CD-Rom Drive so I can't Copy over the Tools ISO.

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Steve Jain - 30 Jan 2004 19:29 GMT

From my tech ref PDF, Installing Win95 section...

(the 2nd paragraph)

Post-Installation Notes:
By Default, Windows 95 does not install the TCP/IP protocol. The
TCP/IP protocol is necessary for Internet access. If the TCP/IP
Protocol was not installed during the initial installation, it can be
installed manually by right-clicking on Network Neighborhood and
selecting Properties. If Network Neighborhood is not available, you
can access the Network options via, Start, Settings, Control Panel,
Network.

Windows 95 Retail, (A or OSR1) does not include drivers for the BX
Chipset. Intel offers a Bus Master IDE driver for Windows 95 Retail
that reduces the CPU time required for retrieving/storing data on hard
drives. This driver is for retail version of Windows 95 only, do not
install this driver in Windows 95OSR2.x versions of Virtual PC.
Intel 440BX Bus Master IDE Driver for Windows 95

Several large files can be safely deleted from the C:\win95 directory
after the installation is complete, freeing up approximately 35MB of
drive space:
1. WOWKIT.EXE20MB, Compuserve ISP software
2. CS3KIT.EXE6MB, Compuserve 3 ISP client
3. Setup25i.EXE2 MB, AOL v.2.5 software
4. Setup32.EXE7 MB, AOL software
References:
MS-DOS Partitioning Summary (Q69912)
Description of Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (Q155003)
Windows 95 CD-ROM Directory Listing (1 of 5) (Q135540)
Windows 95 Installation Requirements (Q138349)

Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows
Website: http://www.essjae.com

>Could someone help me with this Problem.
>I have completed an Install of Win95, however it will not
>let me Install the VCD Tools.
>In Device Manager I have Yellow Astrix's beside Quite a
>few Devices such as IDE Controllers etc.
>I have no CD-Rom Drive so I can't Copy over the Tools ISO.

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Colin Barnhorst - 31 Jan 2004 03:41 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>Could someone help me with this Problem.
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>.
>Install a driver for your cd drive in the guest C: drive,

modify the autoexec.bat and config.sys files as need and
reboot. My CD drive is actually a Sony CDRW/DVDRW and I
used an old Samsung CDRW driver diskette. To my surprise,
the Samsung driver worked fine.

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Steve Jain - 31 Jan 2004 06:16 GMT

You don't need to install a cd-rom driver. Alternately, you can copy
the Win95 dir to the C: drive and run setup from there. It solves all
the installation problems and you don't have to mess around with
real-mode drivers.

Details in my tech ref, as well as the Intel BX drivers link for
Win95.

Steve Jain, Microsoft MVP for Virtual PC for Windows
Website: http://www.essjae.com

>>-----Original Message-----
>>Could someone help me with this Problem.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>used an old Samsung CDRW driver diskette. To my surprise,
>the Samsung driver worked fine.

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