Windows 95 Install - Guess How Long To Install...

[Chandler]

As an experiment I got out my old Windows 95 OSR2 CD and installed it on the following notebook system:
- Intel Celeron 1.2GHz
- 512MB PC133 RAM
- 40GB 4200RPM UDMA100 HDD
- Toshiba SD-R2412 DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive

Guess how long it took to install, not counting disk format, but including typing in the CD key and selecting regional options etc.

[Igloo]

about an hour?

did it install all the drivers etc?

[halokid]

hmmm sometimes older is slower, but soemtimes
older is faster if on newer hardware. id say 13 minutes. If i remember right there is less optimization and driver installation time for windows 95 then  the newer versions of windows
but im not sure its been soooooooooooo long.
gee what was i doing when i had win 95? playing pipe dreams?

[Mark H]

I will say about 40 to 45 minutes.

Mark H

[Whizbang]

Fifteen minutes.

[slaxorz]

3.26 miliseconds.........seriously probably about 30 minutes.

[halokid]

Well are you gonna tell us how long it took? ;D

[Neon]

No, he is waiting for everybody to send their guesses before this contest closes.  ;)

I will guess, oh...    64 minutes.

What fabulous prize have I won?

[Whizbang]

I based my guess in the time it took to install 95 on my old PBell 120.  Since it took about 40 minutes, I figured that a CPU that was 4 times faster should be able to do it in no more  than 1/3 that time.

[scuzzy]

The last time I installed Win95 on a system was back around 1998. If I recall, it took about 23 minutes on my Dell XPS PIII-350MHz with 64MB of RAM.

[freelance]

with smartdrv on or off???? with it on i'd guess 5 mins, with it off about 30mins.

[Chandler]

Did I never give the answer to this question?  Whoops!  I've completely forgotten how long it took now.  ;D

[Ace]

It took you a little over a year and a half.  Your original topic was Sept. 2005, and it's just April (just spring) 07.  I mean, I remember Win95 as slow but not that slow.  I've seen people take awhile to respond here, so I guess it's not that unusual.

Why don't you see if you have a disk with Windows 3.1 and give that a go. If it's over two years, remind us what the question was.

Ace; probably on one of those 5" floppies...

[halokid]

geesh this  topic got buried and i even remembered i was quite curious  to see the result ;D

Now where did i put that 95 cd? I wanted to actually unearth it just in case the Cylons attack and more modern Windows Versions are rendered useless.