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KenMacLeod@onyx.octagon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> 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

Is it really that complicated?  I had 95 on, then installed 3.1 on top.  
It asked me if I wanted to upgrade to 3.1!!!!  I said no, put it in 
c:\win31, which it did.  Now both work fine.  I just boot to dos (a pause 
at the end of autoexec.bat allows me to press break to get to dos) the 
type cd win31.....win