🚀 go-pugleaf

Sure you can do this. This requires you editing the registry -- back
it up before doing this -- select Start > Run > type in Regedit >
find the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
In the right pane, highlight "Source Path", right click mouse, select
modify, & type in  D:\Win95 (or E:\Win95 depending on the drive
designation of your cd-rom. Doing it this way, leaves one permanent
setup source. This will do what you want without alternate source
paths...
Luck to ya
Dale

akrapfl@inav.net wrote in article <5872pt$j81@composer.inav.net>...
> -snip- ...Now I want to avoid being prompted for disk #xx every
time I change my > configuration.  How can I make windows believe
that I have installed from the CD > instead of the floppies?  -snip-
..Does anyone know how I can change this?
> Please reply to akrapfl@inav.net if possible.
> -Adam Krapfl.

If you are happy with editing your REGISTRY files, you can easily do this.

The information is in
\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

To get to this select START then Run and type REGEDIT.  Double click on the
folder names until you reach this level.

Double click in the right hand side under the "SourcePath" which should be
the letter of your CD-ROM, and you can then edit this to A:\.

Their is also a setting for SourcePathType.  I am not sure what this is
for, so I recommend not changing this..

Just remember than ALL edits are IMMEDIATE with no undue.  You should not
cause problems with these edits, but ....

Type slowly and correctly.  Good luck.

Dave

akrapfl@inav.net wrote in article <5872pt$j81@composer.inav.net>...
> I had problems installing windows95 from a CD the other day.  What
> seemed to be the easiest way around it was to install it via floppies
> which came with laptop.  This has worked.  Now I want to avoid being
> prompted for disk #xx every time I change my configuration.  How can I
> make windows believe that I have installed from the CD instead of the
> floppies?  This also goes along with the fact that my laptop was able
> to get the info from the hard drive when it was first purchased,
> meaning that the data is on the hard disk somewhere, yet once I
> reinstalled with the floppies, now I am prompted for each floppy when
> I try to change anything, even though, the data should still be on the
> hard drive somewhere.  Does anyone know how I can change this?
> 
> Please reply to akrapfl@inav.net if possible.
> 
> -Adam Krapfl.
> 
> 

The help file says you can restore to an extent at least.

To restore the registry

1	Click the Start button, and then click Shut Down.

2	Click Restart The Computer In MS-DOS Mode, and then click Yes.
3	Change to your Windows directory. For example, if your Windows
directory is C:\Windows, you would type the following:
	cd c:\windows
4	Type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each one.
(Note that System.da0 and User.da0 contain the number zero.)
	attrib -h -r -s system.dat
	attrib -h -r -s system.da0
	copy system.da0 system.dat
	attrib -h -r -s user.dat
	attrib -h -r -s user.da0

	copy user.da0 user.dat
5	Restart your computer.

Tip

	Following this procedure will restore your registry to its
state when you last successfully started your computer.



TRL


On 6 Dec 1996 01:43:42 GMT, "paine-d" <tyke@enter.net> wrote:

>If you are happy with editing your REGISTRY files, you can easily do this.
>
>The information is in
>\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
>
>To get to this select START then Run and type REGEDIT.  Double click on the
>folder names until you reach this level.
>
>Double click in the right hand side under the "SourcePath" which should be
>the letter of your CD-ROM, and you can then edit this to A:\.
>
>Their is also a setting for SourcePathType.  I am not sure what this is
>for, so I recommend not changing this..
>
>Just remember than ALL edits are IMMEDIATE with no undue.  You should not
>cause problems with these edits, but ....
>
>Type slowly and correctly.  Good luck.
>
>Dave

Timothy R. Linde

Do a search for SourcePath.  I found two, the one you want is in
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\setup.  Mine
has h:\win95 which is my CD drive and where I installed it from. Change it
to whatever drive you want.

-- 
Brett I. Holcomb
bretth@slinknet.com

akrapfl@inav.net wrote in article <5872pt$j81@composer.inav.net>...
> I had problems installing windows95 from a CD the other day.  What
> seemed to be the easiest way around it was to install it via floppies
> which came with laptop.  This has worked.  Now I want to avoid being
> prompted for disk #xx every time I change my configuration.  How can I
> make windows believe that I have installed from the CD instead of the
> floppies?  This also goes along with the fact that my laptop was able
> to get the info from the hard drive when it was first purchased,
> meaning that the data is on the hard disk somewhere, yet once I
> reinstalled with the floppies, now I am prompted for each floppy when
> I try to change anything, even though, the data should still be on the
> hard drive somewhere.  Does anyone know how I can change this?
> 
> Please reply to akrapfl@inav.net if possible.
> 
> -Adam Krapfl.
> 
> 

akrapfl@inav.net wrote:
> 
> I had problems installing windows95 from a CD the other day.  What
> seemed to be the easiest way around it was to install it via floppies
> which came with laptop.  This has worked.  Now I want to avoid being
> prompted for disk #xx every time I change my configuration.  How can I
> make windows believe that I have installed from the CD instead of the
> floppies?  This also goes along with the fact that my laptop was able
> to get the info from the hard drive when it was first purchased,
> meaning that the data is on the hard disk somewhere, yet once I
> reinstalled with the floppies, now I am prompted for each floppy when
> I try to change anything, even though, the data should still be on the
> hard drive somewhere.  Does anyone know how I can change this?
> 
>
Before you edit the Registry, make a floppy copy of USER.DAT and
SYSTEM.DAT.

Then use Regedit and change the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SourcePath

Your present value is probably set to A:\

Change it to X:\WIN95  (where X is the letter of your CD ROM drive)

 Duane