Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems.The first operating system in the 9x family, it is the successor to Windows 3.1x, and was released to manufacturing on August 15, 1995, and generally to retail on August 24, 1995. The Windows 95 OSR2 (OEM) (ISO) option seems to be missing some files. I've just noticed this when I tried to install Windows 95 on a virtual machine and it reported a lot of missing files during the final part of the installation, plus the ISO file seems to be lighter than the one written on the file size section of the table above (382MB instead of 400MB).
WinWorld: Windows 95 OSR 2.5 Windows 95 OSR 2.5 Windows 95 offered, at long last, a well designed document-oriented desktop shell that worked much like the 1984 Macintosh Finder. It also included a new way of finding installed applications through a 'Start' menu. These are the Windows 95 boot disk images available from AllBootDisks. Download the diskette image you need, and if you need assistance creating a bootable diskette from this image, visit the how-to page. Thanks to Ed Jablonowski from Bootdisk.com for creating these disks.
I have no idea which combinations of VMWare, DOS, and either MSCDEX or the SoundBlaster driver installer (I'm really not sure which), got me into this strange situation with Windows 95 and Microsoft Plus, but...
For some bizarre reason I once had a situation whereby the CONFIG.SYS file had the following entry (not created by me):
There's a mysterious side-effect about the word 'Banana', which by it's nature makes me curious as to whether it might be an Easter Egg. However, it may merely be due to some setting that is used when installing either the CD or SB driver into the underlying DOS operating system via WIndows, and letting the installer choose its own device names. So be aware that the word 'Banana' might not be the only pain-in-the-ass side effect of this mysterious bug!
Basically, if there is still a line 'DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana' enabled in the DOS's CONFIG.SYS file then you will be unable to process ANY file that has the name BANANA under the subsequent installation of Windows (including Banana.ppm, Banana.ANI etc) AND THIS will prevent things like the installation of Win95Plus! and indeed any other stuff that has files with the name Banana in them.
Once Windows is working and has its own CD ROM driver (seperate from the DOS one that appears to be in this CD1.SYS file), the cure is simply to 'REM out' the offending line in CONFIG.SYS via MSCONFIG and reboot!
I have no idea which combinations of VMWare, DOS, and either MSCDEX or the SoundBlaster driver installer (I'm really not sure which), got me into this strange situation with Windows 95 and Microsoft Plus, but...
For some bizarre reason I once had a situation whereby the CONFIG.SYS file had the following entry (not created by me):
There's a mysterious side-effect about the word 'Banana', which by it's nature makes me curious as to whether it might be an Easter Egg. However, it may merely be due to some setting that is used when installing either the CD or SB driver into the underlying DOS operating system via WIndows, and letting the installer choose its own device names. So be aware that the word 'Banana' might not be the only pain-in-the-ass side effect of this mysterious bug!
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Basically, if there is still a line 'DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana' enabled in the DOS's CONFIG.SYS file then you will be unable to process ANY file that has the name BANANA under the subsequent installation of Windows (including Banana.ppm, Banana.ANI etc) AND THIS will prevent things like the installation of Win95Plus! and indeed any other stuff that has files with the name Banana in them.
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Once Windows is working and has its own CD ROM driver (seperate from the DOS one that appears to be in this CD1.SYS file), the cure is simply to 'REM out' the offending line in CONFIG.SYS via MSCONFIG and reboot!