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Re: Dual-boot CD driver?

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From: ric
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00
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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <B117579E96681464C5@valperga.demon.co.uk>,
> keith@valperga.demon.co.uk (Keith Crook) wrote:
> 
> >You prompted me to do what I had been reluctant to face:  to try to copy
> >from the dual boot Demon CD and upgrade my Turnpike and IE.  Two days later
> >(at least six gruelling hours of letting Wizards creakily cast their
> >spells) I have them installed.
> 
> Interesting. Using SoftWin 2 (I have uninstalled SoftWin95) I simply can't
> see the DOS partition on the CD-ROM. If says "disk missing". And the manual
> explains why. But looking at the SoftWin95 manual it doesn't mention using
> an alternative driver.
> 
> Conclusion has to be that SWin95 will read the DOS partition of dual boot
> CDs and SWin2 will not.
> 
> So I guess I need to reinstall SWin95. Given the room it takes up, I'm not
> sure I want to. I'll try to find out how much the Insignia driver for SWin2
> costs. If not too much, it's certainly the neater solution for me.

Try running the SW95 application with the SW2 drive container file, and
that way you'll know if the difference is in the application or the
windows drivers.

-- 
'ric
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From: btgsch@rmplc.co.uk (ric)
Subject: Re: Dual-boot CD driver?
Date: 1998/02/23
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