Need HP DJ 932C installation on floppy

I am trying to set up a HP Deskjet 932C for a friend. She does not
have a CD drive nor does she have an internet connection. So the only
method of installing the printer is to use floppy drives. The program
I downloaded from HP does not provide a method to make installation
disks. It will be loaded on a windows 98 computer. Thanks, David

Dralph wrote:
I am trying to set up a HP Deskjet 932C for a friend. She does not
have a CD drive nor does she have an internet connection. So the only
method of installing the printer is to use floppy drives. The program
I downloaded from HP does not provide a method to make installation
disks. It will be loaded on a windows 98 computer. Thanks, David

Do you have any sort of an external drive such as a Zip drive or CD ROM?
If so you could move the file(s) to that media and load it onto her machine.

Barring an external drive about the only way I have found other than a
laplink cable is to expand the file from HP to see if individual
components will load to a floppy disk. You have a lot of work ahead.

Good Luck!

RecTech

The other possibilities are to:

1. hook up an external USB CD-ROM drive
2. use a utility program to slice and dice the 932c file downloaded from HP into
diskette sized pieces. Then copy all the pieces onto her hard drive, and,
finally, put them back together in the right order. This is a pain. Really. I
did it a lot before I got a CD burner. I love my CD burners.
3. Hey, big spender. Really. Show her how much you love her by buying and
installing a CD-ROM drive in her computer. New CD-ROM drives are now cheap,
with prices pushed down by the prices of new CD burners and DVD burners. Used
CD-ROM drives with respectable speed in good working order are really cheap.
Stop by and I'll sell you one for $15, 32x or better... Ben Myers

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:16:49 -0600, David Ellis <> wrote:

>Dralph wrote:
>I am trying to set up a HP Deskjet 932C for a friend. She does not
>have a CD drive nor does she have an internet connection. So the only
>method of installing the printer is to use floppy drives. The program
>I downloaded from HP does not provide a method to make installation
>disks. It will be loaded on a windows 98 computer. Thanks, David
>
>Do you have any sort of an external drive such as a Zip drive or CD ROM?
>If so you could move the file(s) to that media and load it onto her machine.
>
>Barring an external drive about the only way I have found other than a
>laplink cable is to expand the file from HP to see if individual
>components will load to a floppy disk. You have a lot of work ahead.
>
>Good Luck!
>
>RecTech

ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message news:<>...
> The other possibilities are to:
>
> 1. hook up an external USB CD-ROM drive
> 2. use a utility program to slice and dice the 932c file downloaded from HP into
> diskette sized pieces. Then copy all the pieces onto her hard drive, and,
> finally, put them back together in the right order. This is a pain. Really. I
> did it a lot before I got a CD burner. I love my CD burners.
> 3. Hey, big spender. Really. Show her how much you love her by buying and
> installing a CD-ROM drive in her computer. New CD-ROM drives are now cheap,
> with prices pushed down by the prices of new CD burners and DVD burners. Used
> CD-ROM drives with respectable speed in good working order are really cheap.
> Stop by and I'll sell you one for $15, 32x or better... Ben Myers
>
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:16:49 -0600, David Ellis <> wrote:
>
> >Dralph wrote:
> >I am trying to set up a HP Deskjet 932C for a friend. She does not
> >have a CD drive nor does she have an internet connection. So the only
> >method of installing the printer is to use floppy drives. The program
> >I downloaded from HP does not provide a method to make installation
> >disks. It will be loaded on a windows 98 computer. Thanks, David
> >
> >Do you have any sort of an external drive such as a Zip drive or CD ROM?
> >If so you could move the file(s) to that media and load it onto her machine.
> >
> >Barring an external drive about the only way I have found other than a
> >laplink cable is to expand the file from HP to see if individual
> >components will load to a floppy disk. You have a lot of work ahead.
> >
> >Good Luck!
> >
> >RecTech

David and Ben, Thanks for the info. I have tried slicing and dicing
and all. I am to the point where I am going to tell her to break down
and spend some money. Getting 98 running on a 386 with 8mB ram was a
big enough problem. I am spending hours trying to get a model T to
run like a Ferrari. Anyhow, I think I am going to simply try and load
a different compatible driver. I cannot even zip some of the files
small enough to fit on a compressed floppy disk. David

Ackkk! Windows 98 on an 8MB 386! Ouch! And just yesterday I talked a client
into replacing a 16MB 486 running Windows 95, acting as a simple print server
for a color printer. I never thought such contortions were possible.

Should I send the 486 down there after I have removed with it? Used Pentium II
and Pentium III computers are under 100 bucks around here. With CD-ROM drives,
too... Ben Myers

On 13 Jan 2004 06:02:48 -0800, (Dralph) wrote:

>ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message news:<>...
>> The other possibilities are to:
>>
>> 1. hook up an external USB CD-ROM drive
>> 2. use a utility program to slice and dice the 932c file downloaded from HP into
>> diskette sized pieces. Then copy all the pieces onto her hard drive, and,
>> finally, put them back together in the right order. This is a pain. Really. I
>> did it a lot before I got a CD burner. I love my CD burners.
>> 3. Hey, big spender. Really. Show her how much you love her by buying and
>> installing a CD-ROM drive in her computer. New CD-ROM drives are now cheap,
>> with prices pushed down by the prices of new CD burners and DVD burners. Used
>> CD-ROM drives with respectable speed in good working order are really cheap.
>> Stop by and I'll sell you one for $15, 32x or better... Ben Myers
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:16:49 -0600, David Ellis <> wrote:
>>
>> >Dralph wrote:
>> >I am trying to set up a HP Deskjet 932C for a friend. She does not
>> >have a CD drive nor does she have an internet connection. So the only
>> >method of installing the printer is to use floppy drives. The program
>> >I downloaded from HP does not provide a method to make installation
>> >disks. It will be loaded on a windows 98 computer. Thanks, David
>> >
>> >Do you have any sort of an external drive such as a Zip drive or CD ROM?
>> >If so you could move the file(s) to that media and load it onto her machine.
>> >
>> >Barring an external drive about the only way I have found other than a
>> >laplink cable is to expand the file from HP to see if individual
>> >components will load to a floppy disk. You have a lot of work ahead.
>> >
>> >Good Luck!
>> >
>> >RecTech
>
>David and Ben, Thanks for the info. I have tried slicing and dicing
>and all. I am to the point where I am going to tell her to break down
>and spend some money. Getting 98 running on a 386 with 8mB ram was a
>big enough problem. I am spending hours trying to get a model T to
>run like a Ferrari. Anyhow, I think I am going to simply try and load
>a different compatible driver. I cannot even zip some of the files
>small enough to fit on a compressed floppy disk. David

Sure they are.. I finally parted out my last 486-66DX class machine
recently... It was up to running Win 98SE, and had a whopping 32 MB of
RAM, along with three 2 GIG harddrives, and a CDR.. (lol)...
Actually, it ran surprisingly well for all that was asked of it.. {it
actually ran better than one of the pentiums I had been using.. I
think the respective motherboards were the issue}...

JM

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:03:56 GMT, ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net
(Ben Myers) wrote:

>Ackkk! Windows 98 on an 8MB 386! Ouch! And just yesterday I talked a client
>into replacing a 16MB 486 running Windows 95, acting as a simple print server
>for a color printer. I never thought such contortions were possible.
>
>Should I send the 486 down there after I have removed with it? Used Pentium II
>and Pentium III computers are under 100 bucks around here. With CD-ROM drives,
>too... Ben Myers