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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:49:32 -0700 (PDT), Annelise Anderson wrote: >My 701 came with dual-boot OS/2 and DOS/Win3.1--of course I could also >run Win 3.1 from within OS/2. But I needed some Win95 programs, so >I installed Win95 from a cdrom drive that attaches with a pcmcia card. > >I told it to get rid of the old files (and it said I might not be able >to run my OS/2 programs); I thought it was going to trash the entire >DOS/Win 3.1, but it kept all my programs....and even installed as an >item under Start>Programs "OS/2", and the computer will boot to OS/2, >and then to Win95 from OS/2. I'm amazed. > >But a little short on disk space! > >Everything I've tried so far runs..... > >How about that? > > Annelise > Never, EVER, EVER believe Microsoft when they tell you that installing Windows whatever over Linux or OS/2 or something else will disable it. In fact, Windows NT seems to be more lenient about having OS/2, except for HPFS. It's just another one of Microsofts' tricks. Also, a reason you may be short of space is the large cluster size - assuming you have a 540MB drive, that's 8K per cluster, 720MB (which is what I have) is 16K per cluster (I think), but I'm using HPFS so it's only 1/2 K per cluster. So having lots of small files from say GIFs and HTMLs off the web can make for lost disk space because of the large cluster size. Anyone on the list - please correct me if I'm wrong. Paul Paul