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to: SCOTT LITTLE
from: GEORGE WHITE
date: 1997-02-18 12:21:00
subject: Win95 under os/2 ???

Hi Scott,
You wrote to me:
SL> BS>So I was wondering if I could Install win95 on this drive,
SL> BS>or will it give me problems when I am under os/2.
SL> GW> NO! Win 95 will _only_ install on a primary partition on the first
SL> GW> hard drive.
SL>Not exactly. It installs on the first active primary partition. Which is
SL>always C: under MSDOS's (and OS2's) drive naming scheme. The active 
partitio
SL>can be changed with FDISK or boot manager so win95 can be installed on
SL>any of 4 primary partitions on the first physical drive.
I think, if you check what I said (above), it and what you are saying
amount to the same thing from a practical point of view.
SL>Win95 can be installed on any other drive, but it's boot files (IO.SYS and
SL>MSDOS.SYS) must be on C:
I wasn't aware that that was all it needed on the boot drive.
Unfortunately I can't check how to achieve this in the install as my
SCSI host adaptor in the test machine has failed and I have to source a
new one (all my CDROM drives are SCSI) :-(
George
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