Great system. I usually transfer files over my home network its quick and easy. Another good option is a CF card and an ide CF card adapter

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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2020-06-08, 08:02:

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Nice find. .

So been having the run around trying to install my 3com 3c 905b tx fast etherlink xl pci ..
Got the driver install utility from vogonsdrivers.com .. all well and good ..
But during the install it asks for the win95 cd . .so off to REMOVED I go to get .. yep got it burned the iso .. ok ok..
Back to it . . Oh now error "setup (.CAB) fule error - bad compression type" .. cannot find and Install the 10 or so files like winsock.dll ..
What the heck .. bad iso?
Attachment shows actual error..

Not going well .. this is absolutely laborious .. need a way to easily transfer files .. I thought network card was going to be easy..

bad iso or failing cd drive most likely.
try another CD or drive if you happen to have one?

Your somewhat at the chicken or egg stage., Once network is up file transfer will be easy, but how do you transfer the files needed for networking.
Most of us keep the cab files and drivers on the hard drive for this exact reason (Might be bit tight with the 1GB though)

Yes I reinstalled windows .. everythibg went well .. except I get exactly the same problem as before..
I have the files on the hdd .. installed the os off the hdd..

ah think that's windows been dumb and looking for cab12 in c:\drivers\3com
Point setup back to the c:\<wherever your cab files are> and it should continue with the install

So I think I had the path wrong ..
It found the files this time but device manager is showing errors..

Might be because I have the "XL" version which doesnt appear in the list to choose from .. so back to looking for drivers and burning to cd again

So I decided to try and install win98 as it has built in driver support for the NIC .. I wanted to make sure the NIC works, then I can go back to 95 and contine sorting the driver error . .
well installing 98 wasnt so easy ..

First issue was this PC cant boot off the CD .. only A or C .. well I dont have any floppys . .. long story in itself .. but I eventually aquired some functional ones..

.other issue was I didnt want to install 98 over my 95 install and there was really no space on the 1.3gb drive .. thought I would Install it on another (20 or 40gb) I had . .
Well BIOS didn't like that .. no drive would recognize properly .. drives would show up as 8.4gb but would habg on boot ..
Eventually .. many many tries and much research over several days..
The solution was to manually set the bios hd to 2gb (heads cyls sectors) and it booted .. so this bios will not work with hdd over 2gb ..

I have a 40gb drive that can only access 2 .. well better than nothing

The other massive issue was booting into the 98 install ..
I had no floppys . .well I eventually found some here in a local computer shop here in geelong (amazing huh).. they were old driver disks (and covered in dust - should have known better) .. got them for free . .. when I went to format them they made bad noises .. I got one formatted out to 1.3mb (rest bad sectors) the other wouldn't even read ..
I got one boot out of it then it died . .big scratch on it .. I had to pull the drive apart and clean the head .. and look for more disks. . Amazingly a mate had some .. yay .

Well I got 98 installed .. eventually .. bit I did ..
And yes the 98 NIC driver works ..

Question can I use the 98 driver on 95 . .
By looking in device manager and copying the files .. I will need the inf file which isn't on the 98 install but figure I can reconfig the 95 inf and have it point to the new files. .

And how do I transfer the files (other than by floppy)..
how do I install both drives in the system together . .if I do that will the system over write the MBR on one of the drives and make it not bootable? .. or else how will the system know which drive to boot off?

So I have finally got the NIC installed under win95a
Trick was to remove the card .. reboot .. delete existing drivers for cards . .reboot .. shutdown .. install card in DIFFERENT slot .. when windows detects new hardware point it to the "oemsetup.inf" file ..

So now installed ..

Next problem .. this windows 95a install doesn't have winipcfg and it doeant have TCP/IP installed and when u go to install it it cant find it on the CD ..

it all works fine inder 98se including network neighborhood and I can network it to my other 98SE system ..

I have a 2nd HDD installed now and it boots fine even though it has the partion ACTIVE on both HDDs (tried to deselect the active flag but fdisk only allows u to make a partion active not deactive) .. anyway will not bother to wonder why it works. .

I will just for the time being transfer files to 2nd HDD under 98 then swap the 1st HDD (the ones with the OSs installed on them) back to 95 ..

Finally got win95 networking working.
Deleted and installed tcpip ..
But Problem was win95 couldn't find the files on the cd rom ..
Well turns out they were (mostly) in the cab files and needed extracting manually first. They were there except for one file .. I tried another win95 cd (this time a genuine microsoft and not a winworld one) ..
Set to get ip automatically .. then check router is assigning an ip (via the browser login on the main pc) .. make sure name is correct (check networking in control panel) .. then connect to other pc using \\<name of pc> in network folder of explorer ..