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In monash.pc Loader <loader@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> You will only be running the fat32 if you used a 95 boot disk to
> partition your hard drive and chose YES when it asked you if you wanted
> to use it.

Of course that was when there was such a thing as a 95 boot disk. These
days, OEM copies don't come with a bootdisk (and the CD is not bootable
either). AND you need a _formatted_ partition in order to _start_ SETUP.
Which means that if you are an OEM and you're starting from scratch, you
actually have to buy a copy of full win95 or of DOS or something so you can
format your hard drive, then install win95b, then format a new floppy with
win95b and put SYS, FDISK and FORMAT on it (because you can't extract them
from the CAB files withouth HIMEM and you can't get himem without an
installed OS) and then reinstall win95b _AGAIN_. Then hope you don't lose
that floppy.

Also, if win95b finds too many familiar files on existing partitions on the
drive, the OEM copy won't install since it refuses to upgrade an existing
system. I hate Microshaft.

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