MIKE RUSKAI wrote in a message to LINDA PROULX:

 MR> Win95 is basically Win 3.x, with the only primary difference 
 MR> that you can install the bulk of its data on a drive other than 
 MR> C:. 

Oh really?  That "everything on drive c:" stuff sure seems to be built into a
lot of what's out there,  both applications and the OS...

 MR> It does, however, still require drive C: to boot from (even 
 MR> Windows NT does).  So, to install Win95 (or WinNT), you'll need 
 MR> to give up DOS, since it'll overwrite it when installing.

 MR> The only way to avoid that is to use a third-party program like 
 MR> System Commander, which does a juggling act with the boot files 
 MR> of the operating systems it supports.  It allows you to install 
 MR> any number of OS's on the same partition, and choose which to 
 MR> boot at startup.

Or set up separate dos and w9x partitions,  that don't "see" each other...

 MR> ... Are there any lawyers here?  Any more?



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