Re: FW: Re: FW: Windows 95

[Harmon F Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

>Harmon, have you actually installed Win95 and run it as a child of OS/2?
>This is my preference, but I can't find any reliable reports about it! Will

  There's been some discussion about it on comp.os.os2.apps,
But, I don't think anyone has got it to actually replace win3.1
-- although it might well do it with further tweaking.

>the sky fall in? Will it boot from DOS-OS/2, or do you run it
as a "DOS
>from Drive A:" type of object (a virtual disk)? Did you
encounter any
>installation|operation wrinkles?

 No, what you do is make a system disk from an installed win95
system. Then take that, put it in a:, and do the "boot from a:".
You really need to have the full installation on an accessible
partition (from OS/2) and paths on the floppy to direct things
properly, etc, to do much experimentation, which
I haven't had time nor inclination for -- but someone on the comp
group was talking about having done a fairly thorough test of
using the OS/2 dual-boot feature (having both systems on the same
partition, and playing around with that. I haven't seen anything
about anyone actually trying to run a win95 native app that way.
I know I can't get Linux to do anything but crash the window in
"boot from a:" tho. 8-)

 Does the Win95 sniffer screw around with
>OS/2?

  Don't know -- I haven't installed it on my machine. A friend
installed it on his, but over DOS, and then uninstalled it when
he couldn't get his BBS to work right on it.

 (snip, snip)

>By the way, where _exactly_ in Asia is it? Because I'm over there all the
>time... so it wouldn't be much trouble...
>
  Oh, just say it faster. It'll come to you.


-- Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx hseaver@xxxxxxxx
seaverh@xxxxxxxx

We have found the Fountain of Youth in Asia!

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