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From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Installing Windows 3.0 on a write-protected disk
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.145905.9746@lth.se>
Date: 30 Jan 91 14:59:05 GMT
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Reply-To: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund university, Sweden
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We've recently installed MS Windows 3.0 on a PS/2 used by students. Since this
machine is used by a lot of people, some of them rather hackish, we put
Windows on a write-protected SpeedStore partition. This works just fine, but
every now and then you get a dialog box saying "Write protected disk in
drive D:". This happens (not surprisingly!) when you try to change e.g. the
colours, but also every time you start the File Manager. Clicking on Abort a
few times enables you to continue, so everything works, but it's still a bit
of a nuisance.

Is there any way of installing Windows so that the files Windows needs to
change (like WIN.INI) are on one disk (writeable) while the rest of the
files are on the write-protected partition? That way, Windows itself would
be safe for e.g. virus attacks, and the configuration files could be
restored from a safe copy (on the write-protected partition) when needed.
Or is it necessary that all the Windows files are in the same directory?

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