win 3.1

[pilipk01]

i found an old laptop with windows 3.1 on it at my G/F garage. It has heaps of rubish on it! plus FDD seems not to working properly! is there any way that i can reinstall win 3.1 ? does it have a folder like i386 in win2000 ? so i will endup with fresh installed win on it ?

cheers

 

[DDR-PIII]

haha it dosent have an i386 folder yoiu need to find the win 3.1 floppy's, or install a new version fo windows via cd-rom.

 

[pilipk01]

it doesnt have cdrom either

 

[DDR-PIII]

it doesnt have cdrom either

onboard LAN ? or a NIC in general ?

 

[pilipk01]

can i do it thru crossover cable ?

 

[Robbie]

plus FDD seems not to working properly! ?
cheers

Just pick up a FDD cleaner. It's probably just dirty.
Rob

 

[DDR-PIII]

can i do it thru crossover cable ?

yeah if you've got the files try cleaning the fdd as robbie suggested also ;0

 

[pilipk01]

sweet as guys! i just cleand the fdd! its working

 

[pilipk01]

now i just have to find a windows 95 , by the way do you wht requiremets are for win 95 ?

 

[DDR-PIII]

133mhz CPu 32mb sdram"prolly will work with 16" and... enough space to install on.

 

[Movax]

I think the minimal hardware requirements for win95 were a 486 with 8mb ram. Good luck with that though.

 

[Robbie]

sweet as guys! i just cleand the fdd! its working

Yeah, I just figured it was dust. Glad to see that you got it working.

I use to have a copy of win95 on floppy, I don't anymore.
Rob

 

[JigPu]

Well, Win95 runs totaly fine on my P-90 /w 48MB RAM, so depending on just how slow the laptop is...

JigPu

 

[minoukat]

133mhz CPu 32mb sdram"prolly will work with 16" and... enough space to install on.

actually, it requires a 486SX 25MHz, with 4MB of RAM. Recommended was 486DX 66MHz with 16MB of RAM I think.

 

[ThePerfectCore]

actually, it requires a 486SX 25MHz, with 4MB of RAM. Recommended was 486DX 66MHz with 16MB of RAM I think.

If you use 4MB, the OS will bug you to install more RAM.

I had 95 installed on a 486 SX 33mhz with 8MB of RAM. It was my own personal machine for several years. Unless you can upgrade to a little more RAM, I don't recommened doing installing 95 if you can manage it. Ugh, I can still hear the hard disk grinding to open IE 3.0. *shudder*

 

[minoukat]

If you use 4MB, the OS will bug you to install more RAM.

I had 95 installed on a 486 SX 33mhz with 8MB of RAM. It was my own personal machine for several years. Unless you can upgrade to a little more RAM, I don't recommened doing installing 95 if you can manage it. Ugh, I can still hear the hard disk grinding to open IE 3.0. *shudder*

lol I had IE4 installing on my 486 once (486SX 25, 12MB of RAM), it took like 4 hours to install

 

[mbentley]

i ran win95 on my ibm thinkpad (500 mb hard drive, 16 mb ram, 100 MHz 486)

btw, the processor is now my keychain

 

[ThePerfectCore]

lol I had IE4 installing on my 486 once (486SX 25, 12MB of RAM), it took like 4 hours to install

I did the same thing, just so I could send email attachments through Hotmail.

 

[pilipk01]

do u guys reckon tht it win 95 will run on 388SX, with 122 mb hdd, and

 

[mbentley]

do u guys reckon tht it win 95 will run on 388SX, with 122 mb hdd, and

i highly doubt it. that's much too slow and has a major lack of hard drive space to really do much....