[comp.windows.ms] Windows 2.1 and DOS 4.01

patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) (05/04/90)

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.
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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us

adnan@rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) (05/05/90)

Windows 386 seems to work just fine on a Gateway2000 386-20 65MegRLL
under dos 4.01. 
-adnan