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To: Alex Molnar who wrote (39467)2/16/2004 10:00:47 PM
From: d:oug  Read Replies (3) of 110652
 
Alex, A person that just switched from Windows 3.1 into
a used pc with Windows 98 is having a hard time adjusting
to the different look to do the same functionality.
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The pc has only one harddrive C: and I'am trying to figure out
a way to either have Win98 or Win3.1 run on C: without me
having to dump onto Omega 100 Zips and break up the huge
2Gs C: (80% unused) into two bootable logical hard drives.
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While the DOS system under Win98 and Win3.1 are of the
same type, WIN.EXE from a loaded Win3.1 directory does
not recognize the DOS on a Win98 loaded harddrive.
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I can see that the DOS on Win98 is gutted down into a
COMMAND.COM in the root, and has no C:\DOS.
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At this point on the Win98 C: I have loaded from the Win3.1
C:\WIN31
C:\DOS
and I'am gonna try the following after I make a bootable floppy.
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Load the COMMAND.COM from theWin3.1 pc into a directory
on the Win98 C: and make two version of CONFIG.SYS
where the one that runs the pc as now in the root will do
the bringing up Win98, and the other version to execute
the COMMAND.COM from the Win3.1 pc that puts you
into DOS after the AUTOEXEC.BAT finishes unless you
add the extra command line to start a Windows 3.1 which
I would like C:\WIN31\WIN.EXE
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Dangerous I know, and just so I have a bootable floppy
and the file system does not get corrupted, then I think
this may work.
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Any comments will be greatly welcomed.
I'll not do this until I search Google for any hits on others
doing something like this.

thanks
Doug
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