Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:30

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In article <41ac66$1ft@news.tuwien.ac.at> e9026329@stud1.tuwien.ac.at (Martina Umlauft) writes:
>Terje A. Bergesen (terjeb@vestnett.no) wrote:
>: > This reminds me of something I was wondering. Does Windows95 still 
>: > trounce the OS/2 boot manager when it installs? 
>: Yes it does - and it is funny that. What does Win95 have to do
>: at the end of my HD (I installed BM at the physical far end)?
>Reminds me of Windows 3.1 not being capable of making a permanent swap 
>file if you have a SCO partition somewhere else on your HD. ("The 
>partition sheme of your HD doesn't allow for a permanent swap file.") 
>Just tell me somebody why the hell win does have to look at partitions 
>that don't belong to it....
>
>The funny part: when the SCO partition was changed to a Linux partition 
>the problem was gone.... (seems Win 3.1 doesn't recognize Linux :)

I heard that win95 only changes its partition to the active/bootable
one.  You should be able to use an fdisk program and reset which one
is active.

Ravi
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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: 21 Aug 1995 17:30:30 GMT
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