Damnation Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 is there any way possible to use you own customized CAB files for win9x installation? if so how? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMateczko Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 (edited) The more interesting related question I have is, do you even need CABs other than MINI.CAB and PRECOPY1/2.CAB at all? Win9x setup program recognizes bare files put alongside the setup program. (Which can be seen in the official OSR2.5 win95 folder on the CD) Can we just dump all files from Win9x_*.CABs and be done with it? Is there a way to automatize the creation of the Layout*.inf files? Those control all the files in all the CABs. I remember using CabPack to make my own CAB files (I think it's a GUI wrapper for CLI CAB programs): https://www.softpedia.com/get/File-managers/CabPack.shtml Edited September 19, 2018 by MrMateczko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rloew Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I wrote a toolkit that automates part of the process for customizing Windows 9x Installation CABS. It does not automate Layout*.inf or Copy*.inf File modifications. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damnation Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 I'm curious to know how to make the CAB files for win9x properly, since cabpack doesn't seem to do it right for win9x (although cabpack works fine for winXP) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMateczko Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Hmm, I'm sure I've used it to create working Win9X CABs, did you set it for 16bit extractor and MSZIP compression? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 As a side note: https://msfn.org/board/topic/150243-cab-files/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/149063-requesting-windows-95-updates-tools-etc/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/149063-requesting-windows-95-updates-tools-etc/?do=findComment&comment=951929 Maybe useful, maybe not. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryTri Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 On Τετάρτη, 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018 at 6:25 PM, MrMateczko said: I remember using CabPack to make my own CAB files (I think it's a GUI wrapper for CLI CAB programs): You can also use Windows' makecab.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rloew Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 The CAB Files are linked in a sequence and have many files split between successive CABs. This makes it difficult to change one or more CABs without rebuilding all of them or using special tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 For Windows 98 there is this (which has however a few limitations): jaclaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rloew Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 The Scripts rebuild the entire set of CAB Files. They cannot rebuild a single CAB or just a few CABs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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