[Solved] how do I install Windows 95?

[ProENTITY]

can you tell me how can I install Win 95? if I'm not mistaken you need the MS-DOS but I can not go in D:! you can help me?

[mpack]

You don't need to go to D. You install DOS first (from floppies), then you run the Win95 installer, which is a DOS application on more floppies. The Win95 installer was sometimes available as a single stack of floppies which included DOS and was intended for bare PCs. Win95 predates bootable CDs so don't expect a simple CD install.

If you mean that you have a mysteriously obtained non-bootable data CD ISO containing the Win95 install files, then you still need to install DOS first, then install a CD driver (details in the DOS howtos and on Google), then run the installer from the virtual CD drive (i.e. the ISO).

[ProENTITY]

i have a .iso of Win 95

[BillG]

Where did it come from?

[mpack]

And what is on it? As I said, there is AFAIK no official install CD for Win95.

[towo2099]

And what is on it? As I said, there is AFAIK no official install CD for Win95.

That's not true. I had a Win95C CD Version, which was able to boot from, so it was not nessesary to install DOS separatly 1st.

[mpack]

Bootable CD installers did not become the norm until Win98SE (i.e. even the original Win98 didn't have it), so I don't know where your "Win95C" came from. In fact I don't remember hearing about "Win95C" before. AFAIK there was Win95, then Win95 OSR2, then Win98.

I suspect that Win95C is not official, it sounds like a late and unofficial rollup. If it's available on a bootable CD then it must date from around the Win98SE era.

[towo2099]

Sure it was official.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/osWin95BC-c.html

[mpack]

I don't accept your selected authority. I'd be more impressed if you referenced a Microsoft page, or even showed a picture of a Microsoft hologrammed install CD. E.g. you mentioned that you own one?

[towo2099]

I don't own such old Windows versions anymore.
The CD was an OEM CD, which was part of the computer i have byed.

http://www.winhistory.de/more/bilder/win95ccd.jpg

I the only picture i can find, and those versions only exist as oem (date 1297).
In principle this was already a little Windows 98 version.

But this all is a little OT in this thread, so i will stop here.

[ProENTITY]

but I have a CD, not the virtual one, original of Win 95, the problem is that DOS does not let me go in D: but in A: yes

[ProENTITY]

I installed Win 95, but it tells me that: "Windows protection error" every time I boot it, how do I do it?

[socratis]

Have you followed the tutorials?

• Tutorial: Windows 95/98 guest OSes
• Windows 98SE step by step
• Win98SE with ACPI - Success At Last!

The first is more relevant that the other two, but you might get some ideas...

PS. I removed your duplicate post, I believe that you are still having the same problem, installing Windows 95. Keep in mind that according to the forum rules, duplicate posts are not allowed. It's not good etiquette...

[ProENTITY]

yes, but they do not say anything about Win 95 Windows protection error
look this:

[mpack]

This probably means that you have not properly configured the memory manager in DOS (himem/emm386). These need to be configured in CONFIG.SYS.