Re: This is where you can get Win '95 Service Pack 1

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From: Richard Hoffbeck
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 00:00

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On Fri, 01 Mar 1996 02:57:48 GMT, draper@mindspring.com (Don Draper)
wrote:

>David Valentine <davev@nrel.colostate.edu> wrote:
>
>>Worldwide Internet Retrieval� wrote:
>>> 
>>> The Win '95 Service Pack is actually a 14 disk program (a little over 17MB)
>>> comprising the following files:
>>> 
>>> Setup.EXE       Disk2.EXE       Disk3.EXE       Disk4.EXE       Disk5.EXE
>>> Disk6.EXE       Disk7.EXE       Disk8.EXE       Disk9.EXE       Disk10.EXE
>>> Disk11EXE      Disk12.EXE    Disk13.EXE     Disk14.EXE
>>>         The Base HyperReference is:
>>>         "HTTP://WWW.Microsoft.Com/Windows/Download/[FileName]"I only downloaded the Setup.EXE file, marked as containing all the fixes and 
>>updates.  When I ran it, I was never prompted for any other disks.  Have I 
>>missed something here?  What kind of update could possibly take more disks than 
>>the original OS???
>>--
>>David W. Valentine [davev@NREL.ColoState.EDU]
>
>My understanding is that the patch is on the initial setup.exe disk.
>The remaining disks represent the entire os with the new patch.
>Anyone verify this?

No, the service pack itself is one disk and the rest are various tools
for system administration, automating network installs and the likes.
To actually upgrade a system you only need the single patch disk.

--rick

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From: rwh@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Richard Hoffbeck)
Subject: Re: This is where you can get Win '95 Service Pack 1
Date: 1996/03/01
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