Originally Posted by PC eye

And you people got lost there easy enough since not too many know about...? Alright all you "95 newbies" listen up!

First things first is learning..waaaaa.. whaat u say "dos commands"! For 95 you are limited to the first 2-2.5gb of drive space where the Fat16 dos primary has to be created first using... "fdisk"! (for those who use GParted that's a faster means there)

Upon seeing a new dos primary created the next step can done two ways. You can elect to see the basic dos system files transferred when formatting or use a separate "dos" command later. The format.com file found on the boot floppy supports 1) "format C:" and 2) "format C: /s" without quotes. The second command uses a "switch" to see the basic dos files copied onto the drive. If you use the format C: only then you later have to use the "sys C:" command. (kind of sounds like an MS pun there for not being smart. )

If you chose the startup with cd drive support option you are then ready to manually change from the a:> dos prompt to the d:> prompt for optical drive there unless more then one hard drive or optical is present. You do that by simply typing "a:>d:" and pressing the enter/return key "with" the keyboard plugged in since that really can help. At the d:> prompt simply type in setup or setup.exe and again press the enter/return key to see the 95 installer startup.