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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:45:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: Installation!!
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote:

> > FWIW, I have what I consider to be a pretty unadulterated (no pun 
> > intended...really! ;) Win95 setup.
> > 
> > 
> > Urk, eh?
> I had the same experience with 2.1.0 boot floppies (more than once). 
> rawrite worked just fine in a win95 window (no DOS mode or anything). 
> However, installing BootEasy didn't work from Win95 even in DOS mode. I 
> had to dig for my old DOS disks for that to work.

This is understandable.  Win95 write-protects the boot sector to protect
from viruses.  It considers Booteasy a virus, so it won't let it write to
it.  Even DOS-mode has this restriction.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major