[ Quoting George White to Scott Little ]
SL>Not exactly. It installs on the first active primary partition. Which is
GW> I think, if you check what I said (above), it and what you are saying
GW> amount to the same thing from a practical point of view.
Key word is 'active'. It must be active for it to be named as C: (obviously).
SL>Win95 can be installed on any other drive, but it's boot files (IO.SYS
nd
SL>MSDOS.SYS) must be on C:
GW> I wasn't aware that that was all it needed on the boot drive.
Yep, that's it. MSDOS.SYS will tell IO.SYS where the rest of Windows is.
When I get my other computer working I will get out my HEX editor and try
get IO.SYS and OS's bootmanager to work together and boot from a non-C:
drive.
GW> Unfortunately I can't check how to achieve this in the install as my
When Win95's setup asks for the install path tell it D:\WINDOWs or whatever.
C:\ will get a bunch of new junk in it, most of which can be deleted, they're
mainly log files and setup's data files.
Regards,
- SoNiC
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