Article View: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Article #4476Re: Installing Windows 3.0 on a write-protected disk
From: Joe Morris
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 22:38
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 22:38
23 lines
1492 bytes
1492 bytes
magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) writes: >Is there any way of installing Windows so that the files Windows needs to >change (like WIN.INI) are on one disk (writeable) while the rest of the >files are on the write-protected partition? That way, Windows itself would Make a new directory with the following files: *.INI WIN.COM WINVER.EXE Put this directory ahead of the normal Windows directory in the PATH variable and you're done. This is the configuration you get if you install WIN3 using a network server, except that the .GRP files are also in the local directory. You may need them in the new directory; I didn't try that configuration. BTW, if you're using the paperboy.exe app (from cica, I think) it locks up (requiring a reboot) if there aren't at least two .BMP files in the directory from which you start Windows. Guess who found this out the hard way... Joe Morris
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<jcmorris.665361505@mwunix.mitre.org>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jcmorrisReferences:
<1991Jan30.145905.9746@lth.se>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Installing Windows 3.0 on a write-protected disk Message-ID: <jcmorris.665361505@mwunix.mitre.org> Date: 31 Jan 91 22:38:25 GMT References: <1991Jan30.145905.9746@lth.se> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org