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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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