From: kayhyphenarcher-mail.com@antispam.com   
      
   "JerryW"  wrote in message   
   news:10akvu7ohbtir61@corp.supernews.com...   
   > I've bought a newer computer with Athlon 1.7 GHz chip and PCI bus and   
   > USB ports. It came with Win XP on the 40 GB HDD but I run Linux as my   
   > primary OS so I repartitioned it right after I got it and installed   
   > Slack 9.1. I left 2 GB for Windows.   
   >   
   > I couldn't reinstall Win XP because it only came with a "recovery" disk   
   > which tried to grab the entire 40 GB back again. So I returned to my old   
   > standby Win95 install CD (I think it's Win95B, the date is Aug 1996)   
   >   
   > I installed it on the 2 GB partition and everything seems to work okay,   
   > but it won't complete the boot up into GUI. It stops with an   
   > unrecoverable error saying IOS error, reboot, etc. I've been able to   
   > tweak the MSDOS.SYS file to start it up in command line mode okay. But   
   > it won't switch to GUI no matter what I do.   
   >   
      
   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;192841&Product=w95   
      
      
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