How do you install Windows 95?

As for the second issue with file transfer I can burn the driver files to CD and load them on that way. There is still a chance of something not working because the luck I've been having with trying to get Windows 95 to run on this particular machine has been a total nightmare. If I get an error installing the video driver then I will have to give up with the period correct Windows 95 OS and make my own Windows 95 OS from the Windows 98SE CD.
 
Update...

After several hours "mainly waiting for things to complete" I now have a FAT32 Windows 95 install and I have all of my hard drive available :):cry: All I used was the Windows 98SE CD and used a file from it then I had to run Windows 98SE CD again after I prepared the hard drive in FDISK and formatted C: to FAT32 I installed the file I need from the Windows 98SE CD then restarted the computer with the Windows 98 CD support and swapped in the Windows 95 CD and installed Windows 95.

I have a clean install of Windows 95 in FAT32

That is the first challenge done. :)
 
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So with the first challenge resolved. On to the next...

The next challenge is installing the driver for the video card. The video card is a Diamond Fire 1000 GL.

It sounds simple but isn't. Because I have no way of getting files on to the computer other than through the CD Drive or the floppy drive. The video card driver is 1.7 MB in file size so it wont fit on a floppy so the only way is to burn the drivers to a CD...

I have dug out my old XP machine thankfully it still works I'm really hoping that the Optical RW Drive is fine... fingers crossed. I have found some blank CDs but they may not work because they are a bit dirty and cloudy looking. I've had them for a long time maybe some of them still work otherwise I will have to order some online and then wait a week for them to arrive. No where else sells them anymore. This was why I really needed the USB working because it would have saved me all this messing about.

Edit: as expected something is going wrong. The RW drive is making horrible noises so its either the CDs are bad or the RW Drive is bad. I will continue to try all the blank CD's I have.
 
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Update... Well I don't believe it... I've done it. I found a blank CD that worked and I burned the drivers to it and installed them to the Windows 95 PC so I now have my Graphics card installed. I am soooo happy and over the moon. Never give up that is what I say. I've now got my dream Windows 95 nostalgia machine :cry::cry::cry::):):):):)

Time to install some exciting nostalgic stuff:
MS Office 97
Dangerous Animals
Encarta 97
Lego Land
Doom
Lemmings
Crocodile Clips
and more....
 
MagicBoy said:
<Enters time machine, back to working in a PC retailer back in the late 90s...>

Win95 is a bit of a pain as you need a boot floppy with the Win95 OSR2 system files so you get FAT32 support, with the correct CD-ROM drivers installed via config.sys and autoexec.bat. There's no standard off the shelf boot floppy that I recall. Depending on what the optical drive is, if it's a standard-ish IDE one then the generic Oak drivers (as used on 98) should work. If it's got some sort of proprietary interface then that'll be pain. Win98 was easier as if the BIOS supports it you can boot straight off the CD.

As Bluecube says, that machine should run 98/98SE as fast as 95 once you disable nonsense like the active desktop.
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Is there not a CD ROm for '95? Pretty sure I used to have one lying around along with manual/handbook still shrink wrapped
 
If your hard drive is less than 2GB you can install MS-DOS 6.22 and then install Windows 95. The way I do it is using is using the DOS on a Windows 98SE CD and install Windows 95 that way I get FAT32. You can also use a Windows ME start up floppy. There are many ways to do it.
 
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