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Re: Re[2]: Installing Win95 on existing Dos/Linux box



On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> Viktorie Navratilova <osirus@spinach.mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> >  Winblow$ 95 *also* tends to overwrite the MBR every once in a while after 
> >  it's installed, for no apparent reason at all. 
> >  This yields a "Non-system disk or disk error" 
> >  message upon boot up from the hard drive, which almost gave me a heart 
> >  attack when I first saw that message on my computer.
> 
> I've never seen that - having 3 PC's running win95/Linux w/ lilo for a year
> total runtime. Though, all of them have a plain win95 (no hebrew support). May
> be, it's a special goodie of the local version? :-)


I must be lucky I guess.  :)  
I had a copy of Win 95 installed on my new machine in an American factory, 
so it was a local version in California, not Israel.

Mayhap you're not rebooting enough.


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