Re: Kat don't leave and xms and ramdrive

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----- Original Message -----
From: Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 4:16 PM
Subject: Kat don't leave and xms and ramdrive


> Kat,
> Sorry to give you a hard time.  But if ramdrive is not needed, then why is
> it used?  It is needed when Win95 or Win98 has to come from a CD (an OEM
> install).  There is no CD driver in MSDOS to do this, and Win9x needs both
> the extra room in ram to install its universal cd driver and its own
> bootstrapping.

I know people using CD drives in win3.1 (not the 32bit 3.11WfW), which is
dos5. I was tempted to drop in a spare hard drive, and do an install after
deleting ramdrive from the cab files, but it's too much work. Oh well.

Kat

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