INSTRUCTIONS TO INSTALL WIN95 ON AN OS/2 SYSTEM



Before you start, back up anything that you don't want to 
lose, just in case. I copied all my word processor documents 
and internet software that I had downloaded to a dozen 
floppy disks. I have the originals for everything else.



My system is a 486DX2/66 with 16mb RAM, soundblaster 16 with 
a IDE quad speed CD rom drive and a new 850mb hard drive. 
When I purchased the hard drive about a month ago I decided 
to set it up for OS/2 and Windows 95. There are a number of 
ways to do this depending on your system.



I suggest that you read chapter 19 of the OS/2 Warp user's 
guide, setting up your hard disk which explains what parti
tions are and how to use FDISK. Once you have OS/2 installed 
make sure you create the utility disks by opening system, 
opening system setup, open create utility disks. This cre
ates 3 disks, the first two are used to boot OS/2 and the 
third contains the FDISK program, you will need this after 
you install windows 95 to get your boot manager menu back.



After talking to a number Of OS/2 Users I think the best 
setup to have is One Primary "C:" Partition (or disk drive) 
for Win95 and One Logical Drive "D:" (or disk drive) for
matted as HPFS for OS/2. If you format the "D:" drive with 
HPFS windows 95 will not be able to see it. OS/2 will be 
able to see both Drives



Now read the users guide to OS/2 Warp, Chapter 18. Using 
Advanced Installation. This gives a number of scenario's for 
using Boot manager. If example 1,2 or 3 suit your situation 
use them



We will start with the easy scenario first. If you already 
have OS/2 installed on drive "D:" and dos/windows on "C:" 
and are using boot manager. Reboot OS/2 using the utility 
disks, insert utility disk #3, type FDISK, this will load 
the FDISK Program. Highlight the "C:" primary partition, 
select "Make Startable", then exit and Save. Reboot, Boot 
Manager seems to have disappeared, the system will boot 
straight into Dos or Windows depending on your C:\config.sys 
and C:\autoexec.bat files. Don't worry boot manager is easy 
to get back. Now install Windows 95 as per the instructions 
at the end of this post. Reboot, mess around with it for a 
while, when you are happy that it is running OK, reboot 
using the OS/2 utility disks, run FDISK again, highlight 
Boot manager, press enter, select Make Startable, exit and 
Save. Boot manager is BACK AGAIN!!



To Install onto a new Disk Drive, Follow example 1 on page 
232 of the OS/2 Warp users guide,  After you have done this 
you will have a boot manager menu and Dos/windows on the 
primary "C:"partition and OS/2 on the logical "D:" parti
tion.



Now to setup Windows 95. If you have a CD rom drive make 
sure you get the CD ROM version of Windows 95 as it has a 
stack of other utilities and programs on it. BOOT YOUR SYS
TEM INTO THE "C:" DOS PARTITION. INSTALL FROM DOS, DISREGARD 
WARNINGS DURING INSTALL ABOUT USING WINDOWS FOR THE INSTAL
LATION. DO NOT INSTALL WINDOWS 95 OVER THE EXISTING WINDOWS 
DIRECTORY. There have been numerous posts by people having 
problems after installing over their old Windows directory 
or from windows. I installed win95 into a new directory 
C:\WIN95 which also gives me dual boot capability. When 
Win95 is booting and the message starting windows 95 is on 
the screen, press F4 and you boot your old dos/windows. The 
only disadvantage to this is that you will have to reinstall 
all your win16 apps on win95. If you don't want the dual 
boot option I recommend that you delete your old windows 
directory and then install into C:\windows. The installation 
will check for windows on your system, just make sure that 
you have your old windows disk number one handy as install 
will ask for it. Also ensure that you have at least 60 mb 
free on your "C:" disk. (From Win95 setup options Choose 
Custom Setup) Win95 will also detect that OS/2 or another 
operating system is installed and give you a message about 
reading help files later. Don't worry about this at the 
moment. Go ahead with the Install, Reboot, mess around with 
it for a while, when you are happy that it is running OK, 
reboot using the OS/2 utility disks, run FDISK again, high
light Boot manager, press enter, select Make Startable, exit 
and Save. Boot manager is BACK AGAIN!!



You may also use the dos or windows FDISK to enable the Boot 
manager. I personally prefer the OS/2 FDISK. On my system 
OS/2 loads in one minute and Windows 95 in 30 seconds. Which 
is better? I use them both! I think everyone will have to 
make up their own minds on this one!!



I will update this post at times. Please E-mail me,  
jnnicho@peg.apc.org as I would like to know of your success 
or otherwise.



Regards, John Nicholls, Sunshine Coast, Australia

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Subject: Coexisting Win95 and OS/2
Date: 6 Dec 1995 22:29:19 -0500
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I've been running Warp for a year now, and I'd like to be able to install 
Win95 to coexist with Warp.  I do not want to uninstall warp just so that 
the win95 will install smoothly. Is there anything I can do to just 
install win95 and perhaps do a dual boot?


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