Hi all,

Minicamper#4 (aged 9 3/4) is a bit of a geek like his Dad

Anyway; We recently resurrected an ancient HP omnibook running XP for him to bugger about with (he's currently banned from my laptop because he wants to muck about with command prompts etc....MrsC allows him to use her laptop where he has set up a virtual machine to run all different versions of windows etc..).

To the point; We've got a copy of Win 95 that he wants to install on the omnibook in a partition. Is this possible, without losing win XP? I went to windows help and they advise installing win 95 first and then XP, but we haz no XP disc.

Any takers? (Beer rewards + you'd make a 9 year old boy very happy )

Hrm...

What filesystem is your XP on? 95 is FAT32 only if I'm not mistaken, which is why they probably suggest 95 first. Do you have multiple partitions?

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CdesignProponentsist wrote:Hrm...

What filesystem is your XP on? 95 is FAT32 only if I'm not mistaken, which is why they probably suggest 95 first. Do you have multiple partitions?

EDIT: Before answering, just slide the beer under my signature. No Cans. No Budweiser please.

Hi this is campermon's son, windows XP has FAT32 format and there are 2 windows XP partitions. The partitions are windows XP professional and XP home edition but home edition is not working.

Out of curiosity, why do you want to install Win95?

BlackBart wrote:Out of curiosity, why do you want to install Win95?

Minicamp wants to bugger about with it.

BlackBart wrote:Out of curiosity, why do you want to install Win95?

I think he's building a time machine, but can only go back as far as the OS.

Can you run it off an external drive? I can't imagine if he's using win95 that he's doing anything requiring a lot of throughput.

Or how about VMware?

campermon wrote:

CdesignProponentsist wrote:Hrm...

What filesystem is your XP on? 95 is FAT32 only if I'm not mistaken, which is why they probably suggest 95 first. Do you have multiple partitions?

EDIT: Before answering, just slide the beer under my signature. No Cans. No Budweiser please.

Hi this is campermon's son, windows XP has FAT32 format and there are 2 windows XP partitions. The partitions are windows XP professional and XP home edition but home edition is not working.

Hey there Minicamp!

I think the reason they suggest installing 95 first is because you will need XP's dual boot capability. Backwards compatibility and all I'm guessing.

Can you install 95 on the broken XP home addition partition?

It's been a Looooong time since I've done any of this stuff.

felltoearth wrote:Can you run it off an external drive? I can't imagine if he's using win95 that he's doing anything requiring a lot of throughput.

Not sure.

We'e got some old hard drives but have lost the power supplies!

felltoearth wrote:Or how about VMware?

That might be your best and easiest shot.

campermon wrote:

BlackBart wrote:Out of curiosity, why do you want to install Win95?

Minicamp wants to bugger about with it.

Fair enough. But I think you may find it's potential for tinkering is limited these days - if your laptop doesn't have a wired network connection or an antique dially-uppy modem it'll be nigh on impossible to connect to the net.

Has he tried installing it on a virtualbox on MrsC's machine?

CdesignProponentsist wrote:

campermon wrote:

CdesignProponentsist wrote:Hrm...

What filesystem is your XP on? 95 is FAT32 only if I'm not mistaken, which is why they probably suggest 95 first. Do you have multiple partitions?

EDIT: Before answering, just slide the beer under my signature. No Cans. No Budweiser please.

Hi this is campermon's son, windows XP has FAT32 format and there are 2 windows XP partitions. The partitions are windows XP professional and XP home edition but home edition is not working.

Hey there Minicamp!

I think the reason they suggest installing 95 first is because you will need XP's dual boot capability. Backwards compatibility and all I'm guessing.

Can you install 95 on the broken XP home addition partition?

It's been a Looooong time since I've done any of this stuff.

Yes! Minicamp happily pointed out to me that win95 is nearly 18 years old! And I remember when it was the bees knees!

Will investigate the busted partition...

BlackBart wrote:

campermon wrote:

BlackBart wrote:Out of curiosity, why do you want to install Win95?

Minicamp wants to bugger about with it.

Fair enough. But I think you may find it's potential for tinkering is limited these days - if your laptop doesn't have a wired network connection or an antique dially-uppy modem it'll be nigh on impossible to connect to the net.

Has he tried installing it on a virtualbox on MrsC's machine?

Yes...he's got just about every version of win on MrsC's laptop in the virtual machine..

I suggested that he muck about with linux but he said that it sucks!

The problem would be the curse of the drivers. Your screen keyboard or mouse might not work. I worked with windows 3 and 3.1, no wonder I'm fooking bold as I used to tear my heir out.

pensioner wrote:The problem would be the curse of the drivers. Your screen keyboard or mouse might not work. I worked with windows 3 and 3.1, no wonder I'm fooking bold as I used to tear my heir out.

I hatez windoes! Can't believe minicamp#4 loves it.

I prefer unbuntu and apple ios these days.

campermon wrote:

I suggested that he muck about with linux but he said that it sucks!

What trimester is he in? Too late to abort?

campermon wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

campermon wrote:

BlackBart wrote:Out of curiosity, why do you want to install Win95?

Minicamp wants to bugger about with it.

Fair enough. But I think you may find it's potential for tinkering is limited these days - if your laptop doesn't have a wired network connection or an antique dially-uppy modem it'll be nigh on impossible to connect to the net.

Has he tried installing it on a virtualbox on MrsC's machine?

Yes...he's got just about every version of win on MrsC's laptop in the virtual machine..

That's as good as it'll get to be honest. It won't get any better running as a host os. And you will need to remove XP first as Windows95 doesn't know XP exists and will gaily overwrite it's boot files.

I suggested that he muck about with linux but he said that it sucks!

I blame the parents

BlackBart wrote:

campermon wrote:

BlackBart wrote:

campermon wrote:

Minicamp wants to bugger about with it.

Fair enough. But I think you may find it's potential for tinkering is limited these days - if your laptop doesn't have a wired network connection or an antique dially-uppy modem it'll be nigh on impossible to connect to the net.

Has he tried installing it on a virtualbox on MrsC's machine?

Yes...he's got just about every version of win on MrsC's laptop in the virtual machine..

That's as good as it'll get to be honest. It won't get any better running as a host os. And you will need to remove XP first as Windows95 doesn't know XP exists and will gaily overwrite it's boot files.

I suggested that he muck about with linux but he said that it sucks!

I blame the parents

Obviously