Archived here in the hope that it might be useful, since there doesn't seem anything for these machines left on the net.
All of this is from/for a Canon NoteJet III (BN-220), with a 486DX or Pentium processor (other CPUs may have been available, I don't know), and Windows 95.
I don't have any original disks, just a (German) semi-original HDD (I think it was upgraded at some point). This is a collection of stuff either from that HDD, or from the net, as noted.
The goal here is to be able to do a clean install of Windows 95 OSR 2.1, on a 2+GB HDD or CompactFlash, and end up with a fully working system, close to what Canon would have shipped.
It's not there yet, this is still work in progress.
The exe creates a bootable disk, and that disk has a pretty self-explaining menu. Injects itself into the boot process and fixes BIOS limitations for bigger (> 2GB) HDDs/CF-Cards and the like.
Can also automatically create partitions.
On my Canon BN-220, using this is necessary for bigger disks to actually work.
The graphics card in the NoteJet III is an OPTi 92C178. This is the driver, but taken from the HDD - it differs from the ones I found on the net. See README for install (basically: add hardware -> have disk).
C:/CANON from a (German) NoteJet III, Windows 95. Doesn't work on its own.
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get Phoenix NoteBIOS suspend-to-disk to work with ezDrive (or find an alternative to ezDrive)
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plain-text printing under Windows seems broken (weird characters at linebreaks)
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C:/CANON utilities don't work, needs some install.bat scripting (and some DLLs)