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I want to backup to a Windows 95 network. How can I generate a boot disk and connect to the server?

April 26, 2017backup boot Connect disk Network server Windows 95

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I want to backup to a Windows 95 network. How can I generate a boot disk and connect to the server?

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That’s what you do to boot from a floppy disk and connect to your Windows 95 network: Install Windows 95 with network support (without any applications to keep the registry small – it should fit on your floppy disk!). Take a formatted disk and make it bootable by “SYS A:” First make system.dat visible by attrib -r -s -h c:\windows\system.dat In case you are missing any of the following files you can extract them from your Windows CD by extract /A xxx\WIN95_02.CAB yyy where xxx is the path to your CAB files and yyy is the name of the file. Copy the following files from your windows directory to the disk. In case they will not fit on one floppy – see below! himem.sys net.exe net.msg neth.msg ndishlp.sys protman.dos protman.exe xxxxx.dos (your network card, e.g. elnk3.dos or ne2000.dos) *.pwl system.dat protocol.ini system.ini (search for [password lists] and change the path to a:\) CONFIG.SYS device=a:\himem.sys device=a:\protman.dos /I:a:\ device=a:\ndishlp.sys device=a:\xxxxx.dos (e.g.