🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello everyone,

many thanks to everyone who helped me and gave me suggestions on
setting my computer up to run the two versionsof windows.

For everyone else who would like to do the same here's how I've done
it.

Using a direct cable connection I overwrote dos7 with dos6.2
(I used the LapLink program for this)

In my MSDOS.SYS file I changed the line BootMulti=0 to
BootMulti=1

I then installed windows 3.11 into a directory called 311 (you can
call it anything you like provided you don't call it windows)

I then removed any reference to 311 from my autoexec.bat and
config.sys which were put there in the install process.
(I actually made a copy of both these files before I started and put
them back again once I completed this operation).

When you boot the machine, as soon as "starting Windows 95" appears
you press the F4 key.  This boots you into your "previous operating
system".  Then go to the 311 (or whatever you called it directory) and
type win.
You will then boot into Win 3.11 or whichever version you installed.

To run programs in this version of windows you must install them from
that version, you cannot run programs that were installed onto your
hard drive by win95.

The most difficult part of this procedure is copying DOS across with
the direct cable connection. I loaded dos 6.2 from a laptop running
Win 3.1 which is why I used the Laplink program. I would imagine it
would be much easier to do using two machines running Win95 as there
would be no need for the additional program.


IF YOU DO NOT MIND DELETING WIN95 AND STARTING FROM
SCRATCH I THINK THE METHOD DETAILED ELSEWHERE IN THE 
NEWSGROUPS IS MUCH PREFERABLE.
i.e. INSTALLING 3.11 AND DOS AND THEN INSTALLING WIN95 
INTO A DIRECTORY CALLED SOMETHING OTHER THAN WINDOWS.


I hope that is of some help to anyone who is still searching for a way
to run the programs that just will not run in '95.


bye for now

ken macleod