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 Path: sundog.tiac.net!news.sprintlink.net!newshub.cts.com!news1.crl.com!nntp.crl.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!spcuna!cnct.com!cnct.com!not-for-mail From: halibut@cnct.com (Halibut) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Coexisting Win95 and OS/2 Date: 6 Dec 1995 22:29:19 -0500 Organization: The Connection http://www.cnct.com Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4a5n2f$57b@cnct.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cnct.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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?