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From: Michael DOT Kitchin AT www DOT mcoyote DOT com (Michael J. Kitchin)
Subject: RE: Installing on win95/nt on the same box
3 Mar 1998 14:41:09 -0800 :
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

way-a-culpa. OK, they can exist on the same partition. Perhaps it  was
just superstition talking :-)

					MJK

On Monday, March 02, 1998 10:10 AM, Bug Hunter
[SMTP:bughuntr AT one DOT ctelcom DOT net] wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, 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
> 
>   Not totally true.  If the partition stays FAT, you can install win95
in
> directory \win95 and winnt in directory \winnt4, for example.  The
trick
> is to install windows 95 first, then install winnt.  I have even
briefly
> had win NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and Win95 on the same partition, booting into
each
> with the bootloader menu.
> 
>   However, you loose the directory control information without NTFS.
> 
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