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Kent Tong (freemant@wr.com.au) wrote:

: Hi,

: I am about to install Win31, Win95, NT and Linux. Win31 and Win95 will
: be on C:, NT on D: and Linux on E:. Would anyone kindly advise that
	Please. Win31 and Win95 on /dev/hda1, NT on /dev/hda2 and Linux on
/dev/hda3 - or whatever.
: the order they should be installed? I am considering Win31 => Win95
: => NT => Linux. Will it work?

	I'd suggest installing Linux much earlier. The reason being that
it's probably best to set up the partitions first. DOS fdisk (including the
one in win95) is utterly brain-dead, useless for setting up anything but
DOS partitions (and not too good even at that). The Linux one, while not at
all user friendly is far more powerful, and should be able to do everything
happily. I've heard the NT one is also quite good, but I've never seen it
(or anything NT for that matter).

: Actually I am going to buy a new hard drive to replace my existing
: one. Is it possible to somehow migrate my existing installation of 
: Win31 and Win95 to the new drive without reinstall?

	If the new drive is _replacing_ the old, doing a complete copy of
every file to the corresponding place on the new drive _might_ work. It
certainly won't work until the new drive has replaced the old - ie. has the
same drive ID, and drive letters for the brain-dead OSes that use them. In
general win31 and particularly win95 are an absolute pain to move, since
they store absolute paths in dozens of config files, the existence of which
all to doco tries to hide from you.
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