Can I boot from a floppy disk and then run Win95 from a hard drive?
A few people actually asked this… • Get Win95 to start normally (off the hard drive!) • Make a Win95 DOS boot disk using Add/Remove Programs / Startup Disk or formatting a disk with /S • Copy the msdos.sys file from your hard drive to the floppy. This file contains the pointers to your installed copy of Win95; you can edit it as you need to as well. • Copy himem.sys, ifshlp.sys, and setver.exe from your Win95 directory to the boot floppy. • Try booting from the floppy. The idea is, msdos.sys contains the paths to your installed copy of Win95, which could be on another directory or even another drive. This lets you install it on drive D: for example, but it still needs to boot from A: or C: to bring up the real mode bootstrap (Good ol’ DOS). You will need to make one edit on the boot floppy’s MSDOS.SYS file though; change “HostWinBootDrv=C” to “HostWinBootDrv=A”. —————————— Subject: 2.6. How do I install old DOS and Windows 3.1 on a Win95 system? I do not recommend
