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More info?)
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:55:09 -0700, "Richard Goh" <me@mailinator.com>
wrote:
>There are not upgrade disks for this. The b version was sold to OEM's for
>installation. You might find a old copy of Windows 95 OEM on e-bay. But
>you will have to do a clean install, not an upgrade, to use this disk.
I've had OK mileage with over-old "upgrade" installation, i.e. as good
as can be expected for any new-OS-over-old installation.
Being an OEM Win9x does require some fancy footwork to avoid the
installer refusting to install, i.e. renaming away the existing
WIN.COM first. If no joy, rename away VER.EXE and the "three stooges"
KRNL386.EXE, USER.EXE and GDI.EXE
Sorry I can't remember the details, but I seldom do ANY
new-OS-over-old upgrades, because several things can go wrong - e.g.
the new OS inherets device drivers and other software that don't work
with it. In the case of Win95 SR2.x ("Win95 B") this includes the F8
boot option to run "Previous version of MS-DOS".
>I would suggest you consider looking (e-bay) for a copy of Windows 98SE
>upgrade. I would be a far better OS for you. Be careful of RAM
>requirement. W98 should have at least 64 MBytes.
Can do OK on 32M, actually, but 16M is pushing it. Be aware that
every version of IE that ships with any Windows older than XP is unfit
for use, and so you'd have to upgrade that. See...
http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x/mimehole.htm
....on that topic. At least Win98xx lets you use IE 6
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