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From: lzirko AT aye DOT net (Lou Zirko)
Subject: RE: Installing on win95/nt on the same box
1 Mar 1998 13:19:21 -0800 :
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To: "Michael J. Kitchin" <Michael DOT Kitchin AT www DOT mcoyote DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Correction, Win95 and WinNT can coexist on the same partition so long as
each has a different %SYSTEMROOT%.

Lou Zirko

At 11:12 AM 3/1/98 -0500, Michael J. Kitchin wrote:
>
>Win95 and WinNT can not exist on the same partition. If you do not have
>partitions that you can allocate for this purpose, you will need to
>repartition and reformat a drive. In addition, everything that depends
>on (a) their own DLLs located in the standard system paths or (b) their
>own registry keys will need to be re-installed for the new OS. In a
>majority of occasions you can store the application in the same
>directory IF the two OSs share a file system -- ie, FAT (can WinNT mount
>FAT32? Win59 will definitely not see NTFS). If you install Win95 first
>then NT, NT should add Win95 to it's boot-up menu automagically. If the
>other order, you can add Win95 to the menu manually.
>
>(Bring a book.)
>
>							MJK
>
>On Saturday, February 28, 1998 11:27 PM, Marty Leisner
>[SMTP:leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com] wrote:
>> 
>> What's the procedure to install on both windows95 and NT on
>> the same box (I don't want to have to reinstall everything twice.)
>> 
>> 
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