WIN95 Installation Problems

[Topaz777]

Hi! I have a 486 PC I am installing WIN95 Floppy disks onto.

1. I FDISK, which was fine. Primary Master is C:

2. I FORMAT & Reboot.

3. Message is "Type the name of the Command Interpreter (eg, C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)

Then a "C>" prompt without the ":" appears

1. What should I type on the C> prompt??

I have the machine running and waiting if you have a quick answer.

Thanks!!

[Stembolt]

You are installing from a CD, right? Boot to floppy and run install from the CD. If I am way off base, please post back and explain. Good luck.

Edit: I reread original post. Installing from floppies. Sorry.

[This message has been edited by Stembolt (edited 08-19-2000).]

[commodsquad]

If you are installing from a set of Windows floppy disks (which there are a lot of them hehe but I dont remember exactly how many anymore..) , and you are at the C:\ prompt - you will need to put the first disk of the set of install disks into the floppy drive.
Then, you will have to change to the A drive (eg. floppy drive) by just simply typing in " A: " (without the quotes) and press enter. The C:\ will change to A:\ and your floppy drive will become active.
Now type dir and press enter - that will show a list of what is on the disk. Look for a file that is similar to install.exe or setup.exe (I am not sure which one it is since it has been so long since I used Windows floppies as the install disks).
Type in the name of the file (install.exe or setup.exe) and press enter and the install should begin. When each disk is done it will prompt you to put in the next one until the whole set has been used.

I hope that helps...

Someone correct me if I am off base here or I left something out...

[This message has been edited by commodsquad (edited 08-18-2000).]

[Topaz777]

I inserted the WIN95 Startup disk, and then started the puter.

I have the WIN95 Setup Window :-) <Enter> Ooops! :-(

Your computer already has an operating system installed on it. [Seems that current OS has/had corrupted or missing files-Topaz]

Says if I continue with Setup, current CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT files will be replaced by basic versions of those files. [I had the WIN95 Upgrade CD orginally installed-CD drive don't work-Topaz]

So it is giving me a choice. Keep the old or continue setup with new OS.

What do you think? Thanks!

[Underclocked]

It sounds to me as if you didn't properly fdisk and format the drive. What OS disc did you use to format? After fdisk, did you reboot before you formatted the drive?
In any event, you should reformat to clear the drive using the original 95 floppy (same version as you are going to install).
Then run setup.

[This message has been edited by Underclocked (edited 08-18-2000).]

[Stembolt]

Make sure you did NOT format with FAT32. Windows 95 does not support it. If this is the case, reformat with standard FAT. Your partitions will be limited to about 2Gig each.

[Topaz777]

I A:\FDISK with WIN95 Boot Tech. loaned me. I didn't make any changes, just looked. On my DOS startup it says Primary Master C: Cyl = 1048, HD = 16, Sec = 63, Size = 516MB. I exited, shutdown, started up and ran A:\FORMAT C:/s Then I shutdown and started up and began install of WIN95 Floppys. Reached 2nd disk, Scandisk run, then I got an application error about Stack Fault in module KRNL386.EXE at 0001:09c3, finally a C:\>

Shutdown and tired install again. BUT it is giving me C> without the colon ":" Here ios what MS Site says;

"Command Interpreter for Command
The for command in the command interpreter (COMMAND.COM) is modal. The default is LFNFOR=OFF, which causes the for command to use the old Interrupt 21h function calls. In that case, only aliases (8.3 filenames) can be used in the for command. If LFNFOR=ON is set, the for command uses the new Interrupt 21h functions, and long filenames can be used as part of the for command."

It keeps asking for the Command Interpreter, and used the example (C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM) It sounds to me like it can't find the Command Interpreter. But is that in DOS, or from a floppy disk, or what?? It wants a command line.

Thanks!!

[Stembolt]

When it asks for the command.com file, put in the boot floppy and type A:\command.com. The install program is looking for this file.

BTW, are you instructed to format with the /s switch? I think the install floppies should add all necessary system files. I haven't installed from floppies since 1993, though.

[This message has been edited by Stembolt (edited 08-19-2000).]

[CujoRbd]

i recently had a similar problem while installing 95c. that command line thingy would come up and i kept trying to get it working, but finally realized how i could get it working.

do you have a working box with Win98 (or a newer MS OS)? if so, just create a boot disk on it. then stick it into the 486 and boot up. it'll have its own command line interpretor so you shouldn't get that same error.

after it loads up, you'll have to fdisk again. when it asks if you want to enable support for large hard disks, say 'NO' as win95 doesn't support that (like Stembolt said above).
when you run it, be sure to delete ALL partitions before creating any new ones. then, just set the C:\ (or whatever) to active.

restart with the disk still in and run format, formatting it to FAT16.

following this, restart again with your first install disk in the machine and it should allow you to run the setup. if it doesn't let you run the install (that C> command.com missing thing comes up, or whatever), then restart with the boot disk in and after command.com loads, just eject the disk and put in your install disk and run it.


if you need any further help, or have any questions, feel free to ask.

CujoRbd

[Richard_Cranium72]

Topaz, it's confusing to post so many times asking the same basic thing.

How to install Win95.

You'll get more help if you don't do this.

DrVette

[Nathan]

If I understand this right, you are installing 95 from floppies onto a 516MB drive.

If the above doesn't work, run fdisk again, drop the partitions, reboot, make sure the partition is gone. Rebuild the partition, make it active, and reboot to the 95 setup disk #1. Maybe it might format the drive before installing the operating system.