Installing Windows 95 onto the IBM PalmTop PC110

Introduction

This section deals with the installation and configuration of perhaps the most popular operating system on the PC110 - Windows 95.

It is recommended that you install a copy of Windows 95 Service Release 2 (OSR2) if you can get hold of it.This incorporates updates to the original version, plus a couple of power-management features that are particularly nice to have on the PC110:

• Hard drive spin-down timer - allows you to turn off the hard drive when idle to save battery power.
• Screen update control at resume - when you resume from suspend mode, you can now specify that the screen should not be refreshed, thus avoiding the 'double refresh' seen on previous version of Windows 95 on this machine that could take up to 2 seconds to complete after the resume.

Unfortunately, OSR2 occupies more disk space than the original version. Disk space becomes something of a premium, because it is very nice to have a copy of the .CAB files (around 50MB in total) on the hard disk after installation, so that plug&pray and software configuration can be done on the move. After doing a fairly standard install, and keeping the installation files on the hard disk, I've lost 124MB of space to the operating system (including swap file). Put it on the biggest PCMCIA drive you have :-)

Installation guidance

• Installing without using a floppy drive or port replicator
• Speeding up the installation
• Video drivers
• Audio drivers
• Power management support
• Infra-red support
• Modem support
• Touchpad drivers
• PCMCIA drivers
• Using PS2.EXE under Windows 95
• Japanese keyboard drivers New!
• Xircom PE3 parallel port ethernet adapter  New!

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Written by Daniel Basterfield. Images found on the internet. Enjoy!