From: Ron Ross (rjross_at_ibm.net)
Date: Thu Jan 07 1999 - 17:52:56 EST
Addressed to: "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury_at_loop.com>
"ThinkPad" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
** Reply to note from "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury_at_loop.com> Wed, 06 Jan 99 23:17:22 -0800
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:37:17 EST, Ron Ross wrote:
>
> >I need to install Win95 on my ThinkPad 600 which has Warp4 with fixpack 9 on
> >it, and I don't know how to proceed.
> >
> >Thus far I have used fdisk and Partition Magic to set-up the hard drive as
> >follows:
> >startable Primary Boot Manager
> >bootable C: Primary empty fat 500mb
> > D: Logical empty fat 500mb
> > E: Logical empty fat 500mb
> >bootable F: Logical Maintenance/BootOS2 hpfs 30mb
> >bootable G: Logical WARP4 hpfs 500mb
> > H: Logical WARP Applications hpfs 500mb
> > I: Logical WARP Utilities + hpfs 100mb
> > Free Space hpfs ~1.37gb
> > and J: CD ROM
> >
> Seems like you like logical partitions. Looks like 95 will have to go into drive C. One
> of the things I *HATE* about NT and 95/98/DOS is that it needs a primary partition to
> boot off of, where OS/2 and Linux don't care.
>
> >I have the WIN95 "For Distribution Only with a New Computer" CD
> >that I received some years ago with a Compaq Pentium 90. I have never used
> >it and I no longer have the documentation that accompanied it.
> >
>
> Which shouldn't really make much of a difference.
>
> >I have been an *OS2 Only* User for years. So, I don't have DOS or Windows
> >installed on either of my computers or on diskettes.
> >
> Who could blame you? I only have PC-DOS installed on a few of my machines, but I myself
> only use OS/2 or Solaris (with the exception of a ThinkPad that runs only NT 4).
>
> >IIRC WIN 9* needs to be installed from a Windows or DOS environment.
> >
>
> Windows, not nessecarily, DOS, yes. As long as you can access the CD-ROM (drivers in
> CONFIG.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE loaded in autoexec.bat), you should be able to run SETUP.EXE on
> the disc.
>
> >How can I install WIN 95 using my present set-up?
> > - Can I install it by running set-up from a Dos Full Screen session? (Sounds
> > dangerous!)
>
> Yeah. It'll trap your computer. I made a bootable disk image in OS/2 to boot Win95, but
> when it ran OEMSETUP.EXE, it trapped.
>
> > - Can I create the necessary DOS boot disks from within OS2?
> >
> All you need is to boot up DOS and load your CD-ROM drivers.
>
> >I have to/need to get this installation done asap for a new project, and to
> >facilitate communications with my clients.
> >
> >I welcome any help.
> >
>
> If you don't nessecarily need 95 in particular, you might try finding a good bargin on
> NT. My machine was for my brother, because his Win98 machine can't talk to the OS/2
> boxes, and TCP/IP doesn't work on the whole network, whereas NT seems to be more
> compatible with OS/2 shares (though I can't see it).
>
> Good luck (and hopefully others will benefit from this, since this is quite a long
> email). =)
>
> -- Paul Khoury | <pkhoury_at_loop.com> | Sent from my K5-200
> http://warped.cswnet.com/~pkhoury/index.html Running OS/2 3/4, Win NT 4.0, Sun Solaris
> 2.3/2.4 and Newton OS 2.0 ICQ#22543041 AIM - pkhoury12
>
Paul,
Thanks for your most valuable information and assistance!!
Win95 is being installed now.
Ron
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