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Using the CD drive in Win95 under WinXP

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 05/09/2006
From: Edward Lipsett
Message:

I am trying to install Win95 into Virtual PC under WinXP.
I already have a virtual box with MS-DOS 6.2 installed, and I have the Win95
boot floppy. Problem is, I can't find any way to get it to see the CD drive
(to install Win95), to get it to load an ISO copy of that CD (or any ISO
file,m for that matter), or even get it to create a shared swap folder.

I assumed that VPC would let the virtual OS transparently access the real
CD; perhaps I was wrong. Do I need to install a CD driver for the hardware
into the MS-DOS config.sys and autoexec.bat files? In which case, since this
is a Dell with the latest drives, there ain't no DOS drivers. Any
alternatives?

At any rate, I want Win95 with access to either my real CD drive, or an ISO
file. (Only any one at any time, but I will need to swap CDs or ISO files
every so often.)

Thanks to you all for your time.

Edward Lipsett
Fukuoka, Japan

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Re: Using the CD drive in Win95 under WinXP

Sent: 05/09/2006
From: Edward Lipsett
Message:

"Mark Rae" wrote:

Well, if I do that I'll delete my WinXP installation, which would be
unpleasant.
I understand the method fine; the problem is that it will not mount any CD.

Ah. That soiunds like what I'm looking for.
I'll have a look.

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>
> Don't think of it as a VPC - how would you install Win95 onto your host
> machine?
> You need a boot floppy with a generic / vanilla CD driver - you can download
> one here:
> http://www.bootdisk.com/

Re: Using the CD drive in Win95 under WinXP

Sent: 05/09/2006
From: Edward Lipsett
Message:

Yup, that did it.
Had to fiddle a bit because I'm running the Japanese-language versions of
everything, but it al works just dandy.

Thank you!
(And a contribution to bootdisk.com coming up!)

=====
Edward Lipsett
Fukuoka, Japan

Re: Using the CD drive in Win95 under WinXP

Sent: 05/09/2006
From: "Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Edward Lipsett" <Edward (email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Don't think of it as a VPC - how would you install Win95 onto your host
machine?

You need a boot floppy with a generic / vanilla CD driver - you can download
one here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/

See above.

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>I am trying to install Win95 into Virtual PC under WinXP.
> I already have a virtual box with MS-DOS 6.2 installed, and I have the
> Win95
> boot floppy. Problem is, I can't find any way to get it to see the CD
> drive
> (to install Win95), to get it to load an ISO copy of that CD (or any ISO
> file,m for that matter), or even get it to create a shared swap folder.
> I assumed that VPC would let the virtual OS transparently access the real
> CD; perhaps I was wrong. Do I need to install a CD driver for the hardware
> into the MS-DOS config.sys and autoexec.bat files? In which case, since
> this
> is a Dell with the latest drives, there ain't no DOS drivers. Any
> alternatives?

Re: Using the CD drive in Win95 under WinXP

Sent: 05/09/2006
From: "Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Edward Lipsett" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Do itashimashte!

They will appreciate it.

Show quoted text

> Thank you!
> (And a contribution to bootdisk.com coming up!)

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