Re: Loading Win95 and CD-ROM Drive

["Joseph C. Wilson" <jcwilso@ibm.net>]

Mark,

I recently switched to W95 from W3.11 on my 755cx.  I have a CD-ROM in
my Dock II Station so hoped to load from the W95 CD.  I called IBM first
and they strongly suggested loading W95 from floppies.  It seems like
you can,  in theory,  use an external CD-ROM to load W95,  but it
probably invites problems.  I ended up using the floppies and,  using
IBM's "Installing Microsoft Windows 95 Upgrade on IBM 755CD[et all]", 
had no problems with the install.  As much as it pains me to admit it, 
I do like W95.  Hope this helps.

Joe Wilson

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Joseph C. Wilson
jcwilso@ibm.net
Milwaukee,  WI

Russell, Mark S wrote:
> 

> I am planning to switch from Win 3.1 to Win95. I am buying a pcmcia
> cd-rom for my TP760C. I have a couple of questions for the experts:
> 
> 1) If I get the Win95 CD version, do I need to configure the CD-ROM
> drive first in Win 3.1, then begin the Win95 load process?
> 
> 2) Are there advantages to getting the CD version of Win95 vs. the
> floppy version, or would I be better off loading Win95 from floppy and
> then configuring my cd-rom in Win95 only?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> Mark Russell
> Intergraph Corp.
> msrussel@ingr.com
> (205) 730-7233