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hy guys. i have a laptop at 75 mhz with cd-rom and floopy but i can plug just one or the other and i don`t know how to install win95.

Boot your system from a MS-DOS boot disk with CD-ROM support. At DOS prompt, go to the Win95 install path on the CD drive, then type SETUP to start Win95 installation. If you don't have a MS-DOS boot disk with CD-ROM support yet, you may download one from this page.

Well, Weingear, you didn't read the post. He thinks he can have only the cd OR the floppy, one at a time.
What brand and model laptop?? Have you been to the brand name website?
Your laptop MAY be capable of hotswapping the two drives--GO TO THEIR WEBSITE and look for sure
If not, several ways.
Get a floppy configured with your CD drivers, and make the hd bootable, then copy the cd drivers to the hd so's you can then boot TO the hard drive, with the cd installed.
Or you can remove the hd, get yourself a "cable adaptor" so you can plug the hd into your desktop hd cable(s) and copy the setup files right onto the hd.
OR you can find and download a copy of the good, old "laplink" (ll3.exe) and use THAT to link two computers--to copy the setup files to th hd.
OR--do you have a cd burner, AND is the cd in the laptop boot-capable?
If so, you can make yourself a COPY of your whandows 95 cd only make it BOOTABLE with your burner software, and THEN you can boot right from the laptop cd.
This is giving me a headache, and I'm running out of ideas.
PLEASE tell us what model and brand of laptop you have, and GO to their website.

You could visit Mesich.com, click on the How-to's and check out Krystyna's instructions: Load Windows using swappable drives
The description is for Win98, but may be applicable for '95

The nameless person "name",
"Well, Wengier, you didn't ... He thinks he can have only the cd OR the floppy, one at a time. "
I did! First, "boot disk" I mentioned in Response #1 doesn't only mean "bootable floopy disk", but can also mean "bootable compact disk (CD)". If he thinks he can have only the cd or the fd at a time, then why not start the system from a boot image of a DOS bootable CD with the CD driver loaded, and then install Win95 from the Win95 CD (which is unbootable)?
Did I even tell him to boot from a *real* floppy disk/drive? Even if he has no real floppy disk/drive at all, there is usually no problem. Have you ever come to my GRUB for DOS download page:
http://newdos.yginfo.net/grubdos.htm
GRUB for DOS can be started from DOS easily if he can boot to DOS with any bootable media on his system. By using GRUB for DOS from my page, it's very easy to boot the system from the bootable floppy image without any real floppy drive at all! Have you even heard of it??
He didn't say if his hd was bootable. Anyway, the way I said in Response #1 should be a feasible way.

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