From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 26 8:38:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4504614D55 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 27063 invoked from network); 26 Sep 1999 15:38:18 -0000 Received: from useraa39.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.130.39) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 1999 15:38:18 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id QAA00831; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:29:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:29:21 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Brett Glass Cc: Todd Meister , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [slightly OT] Win 95 upgrade CD & bochs Message-ID: <19990926162920.F282@marder-1> References: <19990926013323.F2759@marder-1> <4.2.0.58.19990926091648.04455b20@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990926091648.04455b20@localhost> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:19:21AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > I keep my old OS/2 Warp install disk around for just this > purpose. In fact, just for spite, Microsoft listed OS/2 as > an operating system from which the user could "upgrade" > when installing DOS 6.22! And said so, VERY prominently, > in their manual. > Damn, never thought of that. I too have a set of Warp floppies (guess I don't think W95 is an "upgrade" from Warp ;-) ). Anyway, someone kindly made a image file of a Win3.1 floppy with dd(1) and put it on an ftp site for me. This did the trick. I now have Win95 running (albeit very slowly) as an application within FreeBSD. It's rightful place some would say:) > --Brett > > At 02:28 AM 9/26/99 -0700, Todd Meister wrote: > >If you have the first Windows 3.1 floppy, you can put that > >in, and tell the setup program to look for the file in the > >A: drive. I used to know which file the setup program was looking > >for, but I've long since forgotten. > > > >Todd Meister > > > > > >On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know how Win95 determines whether you have a valid OS > > > installed before it will "upgrade" to 95 > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message