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"Jeff Oren" <joren@psinet.com> wrote:

>Has anyone experienced a successful dual boot using Win95 with a foreign
>version of
>Win95?  An where would you begin looking for the directions to accomplish
>this?
>Thank you in anticipation of your response.

Without a boot manager this would be quite hard.

You could setup your system with the two versions in seperate dir's on
one partition (obviously) but that would cause problems with the
Program Files-dir: meaning you would either have the English or the
foreign language accessories after installing.

-- You could try the following -- No guarantees ;~}

Your best bet is to do an installation of one version first (in
c:\windows for example). Make sure everything is ok, but do not
install any other programs right now.

Then copy the Program Files-dir to another dir (e.g. Program English)
and <important> copy the files in the root to a temporary dir, c:\temp
(especially  io.sys msdos.sys autoexec.bat config.sys command.com).

Then you install the other version in another directory (e.g.
c:\win95). Now you should be able to boot this version.

Then rename the following files from the first installation:
io.sys 		    io.dos
msdos.sys 	    msdos.dos
command.com   command.dos
autoexec.bat	    autoexec.dos
config.sys	    config.dos

and copy them to the root.

In msdos.sys (textfile) you add under the section [Options]
BootMulti=1 (this normally enables a previous version of DOS to be
started). This method means that you would not be able to use your
previous version of DOS however !

At startup you should now be able by pressing F8 to choose <Previous
version of DOS>. If everything works fine you should now startup in
the other version of Win95.

A few problems remain:
1. You will have to adjust the shortcuts for some accessories yourself
2. When you install programs in one version you should export
everything from the registry (especially
[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software) that was changed by the setup and merge
it with the registry of the other version. Perhaps you could copy the
user.dat (user-specific settings) from c:\windows to c:\win95 (or vice
versa) but then you will have to adjust keyboard settings and so on.

This kind of setup works ok with NT, so theoretically it should work.
I have not used this setup myself with Win95, but have installed a
dutch version over an english one and everything worked fine.

Hope this helps,

Bye,

Koen.

PS. If something is not quite clear, just mail me and I'll see what I
can do.


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   Yes, it's possible to multiboot various foreign versions of win95.
   For general use, get and use system commander.  You'll be able to 
   boot os's at will.  My experience testing Japanese win95 and us95:
   seperately,there was a floppy with a multiboot program on it.  All it does
   is switch between the two os's, so sort of a lesser version of
   system commander but made in Japan.  All it does is switch the
   hidden,system files io.sys/msdos.sys/etc and the program files
   directory between the two versions , but it works fine. 

On 5 Sep 1996 06:37:20 GMT, "Jeff Oren" <joren@psinet.com> wrote:

>Has anyone experienced a successful dual boot using Win95 with a foreign
>version of
>Win95?  An where would you begin looking for the directions to accomplish
>this?
>Thank you in anticipation of your response.

I have successfully installed both English and Japanese Win95 on my
system. Win95 insists on copying system files to drive C no matter
where you install Windows, so normally installing a new version
overrides the previous one. To get around this Microsoft has produced
a free but unsupported utility called Winboot which works perfectly on
my system. Sorry, I don't know the exact location of Winboot, but it
is on the Microsoft site somewhere.

Good luck

Kyle

___________________________
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Virtual World: 
	kyle@kylebarrow.com
Real World:
	Osaka, Japan
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Kyle Barrow wrote:
> 
> On 5 Sep 1996 06:37:20 GMT, "Jeff Oren" <joren@psinet.com> wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone experienced a successful dual boot using Win95 with a foreign
> >version of
> >Win95?  An where would you begin looking for the directions to accomplish
> >this?
> >Thank you in anticipation of your response.
> 
> I have successfully installed both English and Japanese Win95 on my
> system. Win95 insists on copying system files to drive C no matter
> where you install Windows, so normally installing a new version
> overrides the previous one. To get around this Microsoft has produced
> a free but unsupported utility called Winboot which works perfectly on
> my system. Sorry, I don't know the exact location of Winboot, but it
> is on the Microsoft site somewhere.

This multiboot utility is available at
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/gbl-gen/intlboot.htm
A few advices here.
1. It will reboot the system to command prompt for installation of new
windows 95. Don't be afraid and just proceed with setup, otherwise, you
need to do some files renaming and editing. Be sure you install to a new
windows directory.

2. If you are using double-byte encoded languages, don't use any disk
optimization programs that are not for double-byte environment.

3. Backup your WINBOOT directory. If you click the button twice when
switching between windows95 versions, you'll screw up some system files
and only one version of windows95 can be accessed from WINBOOT. When it
happens and you don't want to edit the system files, restore the files
from your backup and replace the system files in the root dir.

I have been using it for 2 months, and it works great.


-- 
Bill Chi Shun Ho, Ph.D.
The University of Dallas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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