Re: [SLE] Re:Upgrading MS Windows on a Dual Booting Machine

From: John Andersen (jsa_at_pen.homeip.net)
Date: 01/20/04

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:40:35 -0900

    On Monday 19 January 2004 14:15, James Knott wrote:
    > John Andersen wrote:
    > > I stand corrected.
    > >
    > > Even windows 95 didn't resort to this huge of a kludge.
    > > No wonder os2 is dead.
    >
    > Ummm... Last time I checked when you installed Windows, you installed
    > DOS on C: and a GUI on top of it. Also you didn't have to use Dual Boot
    > with OS/2. It was merely an option, should you wish to have both OS/2 &
    > DOS on the same partition. If you used boot manager, you could have
    > OS/2 installed on any drive or partition.

    Boy has it ever been a long time since you checked..... ;-)
      It hasn't been that way since 1998. 

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