Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

[Kathleen Dickason]

Nickolas Koehne wrote:

> You're right.  All windows OS's before 95 and NT were just GUI's for MS-DOS.
> The easiest way for this to make sense to most people is that you had to
> install MS-DOS before you could actually install Windows.  On newer versions
> of Windows, you need not install DOS anymore.
>

You do need to configure the partition on which you're going to install Windows as a 
DOS partition before you install Windows, though.

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Kathleen Dickason
Registered Linux user #182139