[ Quoting Brent Smith to Scott Little ]
SL> Not exactly. It installs on the first active primary partition. Which
SL> is always C: under MSDOS's (and OS2's) drive naming scheme. The active
BS> Ok i have 4 drives
BS> c,e,f are hpfs drives
BS> d is fat
BS> when i boot dos from A, my d drive becomes c drive,
BS> will win95 install on this drive, and will it effect anything when
BS> booting os/2 f Brent...
D becomes C because MSDOS (and most other OS's) ignore partitions of
unknown type. Under MSDOS, C,E,F are unknown and are ignored. The first
drive on your system that is compatible with MSDOS is assigned the name C:
You can boot from A: or your DOS on your FAT partition and install Win95 on
C: quite safely. Win95 ignores all the other partitions.
It might, however, give you a warning about BootManager. This is fine - Win95
disables BootManager during the install. Keep a disk with FDISK on it handy.
When Win95 is installed, use FDISK to change the active partition to the one
with BootManager on it and BM will be re-enabled.
Regards,
- SoNiC
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