<CT> Re: Media Replacement
- From: "Martin B. Brilliant" <marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: calmira_tips@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:14:24 -0500
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Alan Grimes <alangrimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey, Is anyone else in the same predicament as me?
> When I have to reinstall, I first have to get out my set of 5.25"
> floppies to install the core of 3.1 then install over it WFW 3.11...
> ...
You don't have to use the original floppies. I copied the contents of
all the floppies into one directory (called W31SETUP) on the hard
drive. When I run SETUP in that directory, everything installs.
I have a CD-RW drive, so I copied the directory to a CDR and used it
to install Windows 3.1 on another system that had an ordinary CD-ROM
drive.
If you don't have a CD-RW drive, and don't have room on your hard
drive for a W31SETUP directory, just copy the floppies. Copies from
5.25" to 3.5" floppies should work fine.
The same procedure should also work with other versions, such as 3.11.
Today I wanted to check out a computer that had no hard drive and
just one 3.5" floppy drive. I copied the five 5.25" 360K install
disks for Windows 1.0 to two 3.5" floppies, booted the machine to MS-
DOS 3.3, installed Windows 1.0 in a RAMdrive, and ran it from there.
Then I copied the RAMdrive to a single 3.5" floppy and ran it from
there. I also rebooted the system, copied the floppy back to the
RAMdrive, and ran it from there again. Useless, but pretty!
Marty
Martin B. Brilliant at home in Holmdel, NJ
http://www.netlabs.net/hp/marty/
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