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From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Installing Windows 3.0 on a write-protected disk
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.085402.23291@lth.se>
Date: 31 Jan 91 08:54:02 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.145905.9746@lth.se> <1991Jan30.172936.19653@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
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In article <1991Jan30.172936.19653@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) writes:
>If you'll look at your Windows Manual on Page 553 (in mine) it
>tells you how to install Windows on a network. If you have a 
>protected partition and a non-protected one (as you imply), you 
>should be able to place all the windows files on the protected one,
>and then follow the installation instructions to install only the basic
>information needed on a "workstation".

Thanks for the information (and thanks also to the person who made the
same suggestion in email). I must confess that it's a trifle 
non-intuitive to treat a write-protected partition as a network!

I'll try it out as soon as possible.

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