Hi,

due to work considerations i'm having to change back from debian to windows. how ever as my laptop will only handle 95 it won't boot from cd.

the laptop is with out a floppy drive so i can create a boot disk to start from there.

how can i remove debian sarge off my laptop (sob) and replace it with win95 (grinding of teeth)?

help much appreciated.

boris

The simplest way (assuming you've backed up any linux content you need to keep) would be to download Tom's Rescue Boot Disk, boot from floppy and use fdisk to delete your Linux partition. Then recreate a FAT one for Win95.

You will also need a boot disk that will boot you into DOS to kickstart your windows installation, pick that up from http://www.bootdisk.com Make sure the disk has CD drivers on it...

You may find that the Windows boot disk could do the first job for you, but Tom's rescue disk is a dead handy thing to have around anyway...

cheers for the help but one problem the laptop dosent have a floppy drive just cd and usb, saddly no external floppy as yet.

any suggestions?

boris

95 Didn't support booting from CDrom did it? I know 98 did.

no you had install it at a dos prompt.

how can i do this (install win95) in debian?

then if i manage to install win95 could i put the required data to completly remove debian on a usb stick?

cheers boris

You can download a Windows ME startup disk at http://filebox.vt.edu/r/rywilson/RCC/bootmec.exe. This is what I use to install older versions of Windows. Just download the thing to make an ME startup disk, then boot from the floppy, with your Windows CD in place. When prompted tell the computer to start with CD-ROM. Then at your A prompt type "fdisk" and it will put you into a text based partition manager. Just delete all of you Linux partitions and then create one Logical DOS partition and make it as big as your entire hard drive. Then you may exit, and restart the computer. Boot from the floppy again and again tell it to start with CD-ROM support. At your A prompt type "format C:". This will format your newly created Windows partition using the FAT32 file system. At the end of the boot sequence it will assign your CD-ROM drive a letter and tell you what it is. Most commonly it is D. Then switch it to a D prompt by typing "D:" and pressing enter. Then just type setup and press enter.

You can boot some Linux distros off USB pen drives, perhaps you could find a boot disk for Win95 that also works like that?

What about a network card, can you do a network install of Win95? Beg borrow or steal an external floppy drive?

Dude, Win95?

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