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In article <432qbs$g...@calweb.calweb.com>,  <morp...@calweb.com> wrote:
>In <431co2$3...@cocoa.brown.edu>, Evan_M...@brown.edu (Evan) writes:
>
>>         You've got to be kidding.  Win95 "destroyed many DOS only
>>systems"???  Where did you get this, your little OS/2 kids club team
>>or whatever you call it?  The #1 reason OS/2 operators are yawning: 
>
>    CBS news, at the same time they reported that Microsoft was getting 2k
>calls per hour because of Windows95.  Two major reasons, it wouldn't install
>and when they tried to back out of it the partition they were installing over
>was gone.
>
>Steve 'Rava' Lamb - PGP 1024/1DE8B981 | My thoughts, my actions are my own.
>            The Underground           | I need not worry if others do not
> Anime - RPG - Doors - Babylon 5 - etc| like them.  For they are me, there
>BBS: (916) 631-8743  2400-v.FAST 28.8k| is no changing that.
>BBS2: (916) 631-8653  2400-v.32b 14.4k| ------------[Team OS/2]------------
>
>

What I never understood was why Windows 95 has to mess with the master
boot record?  Doesn't it first load the same files as DOS does (talking
about the upgrade version).  It made Linux unavailable to me until
I loaded up my linux boot disk and reran LILO.  Annoying.  Oh well.  Seems
like a conspiracy to me.  Since Windows 95 runs just fine from a Linux
created MBR (which doesn't know anything about Win 95, just DOS), it seems
silly for Win 95 to mess with it, unless they want to destroy other
operating systems.  I heard that some OS/2 have more trouble with this
problem, especially those using boot manager.  It should at the very least
ask you if you want to do this...   I can see it messing with it in the
Full version (since you have nothing on your drive), but not an upgrade 
version.

Still I enjoy Windows 95 a lot, since I can now almost every game I have
in it, though there are a few that absolutely won't, and Linux still hasn't
gotten to the point that it has great dos compatiblity.



Happily running Linux and Win 95,

Steven