Marwan Fayed wrote:
>
> As Thierry (and one other I think) suggested, a DOS partition is required.
> Before this was suggested to me I tried dual booting with a small DOS
> partition of 2 megs to save as much space as possible. This didn't work.
> Well, last night a chain of events forced me to realize that Win95, of
> course, uses partitions greater than 2 megs and that I should try using
> larger partitions (Thierry uses 20 on his machine).
>
> I first tried it with 5 megs... nothing. Then 10, 16, and still nothing.
> Finally when I expanded the DOS partition to 20 megs it worked. I can only
> assume this is how IBM manufactured their BIOS. And hey, it's 20 megs lost
> but at least it worked.
OK, let's quickly hack the VM system to allow swapping on a DOS partition.
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