Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:49992 comp.windows.ms:2103 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!tank!gargoyle!chinet!patrickd From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 2.1 and DOS 4.01 Message-ID: <1990May3.220617.25427@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 3 May 90 22:06:17 GMT References: <9081@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Distribution: usa Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL Lines: 19 In article <9081@pt.cs.cmu.edu> climan@clamen.avalon.cs.cmu.edu (Dani Climan) writes: } } Has anyone succesfully installed Windows 2.1 (2.10?) on a Gateway }2000 computer? I am running DOS 4.01 with a 65meg RLL drive (share is }installed). The motherboard is a 20MHz Micronics. What computer type }should be selected? Any special switches need to be set in the }WIN.INI file? Currently WIN86 seems to run, but WIN386 reads the disk }for a while then ends up at a DOS prompt. } We have two people here using Gateways. I don't believe they had to do anything special to get them working. You might want to try something other than DOS 4.01 since I know it's a bit tricky as to waht it will work with. -- "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for trivial pursuit." -Harlan Ellison Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us