NT 3.51 worked in top of DOS? I think it was a different OS, so it won't work in Dosbox. Maybe Virtual PC or VMWare, but not Dosbox.

I suppose he's talking about image support, so no
need for an underlying dos.
But it won't work anyways.

Running NT is far beyond the scope of the DOSBOX project...

Mirek

You can probably install it under Qemu tho.

I'm away from home for a couple days, spending some time with my mum 😀
I knew I should have brought my Laptop with me.... Anyway, I have NT 3.51
and I can start the install in DosBox. There is a WINNT.EXE as well as WINNT32.exe... WINNT.exe is ofcourse the dos install. What I want to try and do once network support is working is install NT 3.51 or 4.0 via a network install with DosBox. Why do I want to do this? For the pure hell of it!

I will send two screenshots of the installer running under DosBox when I get back to my place. I will crop them so they wont be large shots........

Tom

You may get installer starting, but something will surely fail later. Even running Windows 3.1 meant that some clever programmers (WD, SRECKO, CANADACOW...) had to sit over DOSBOX for time fixing problems in DOSBOX.... There were quite a few changes to make DOSBOX W3.1 compatible...
The probability of ever running NT in DOSBOX "out of blue" is zero. Additionaly even if somebody made a patch for this, it would not be very usefull and usable...
There was some experimental work done on trying to run W9x, but even that was dropped (performance reason and usefullness)... There is always danger that DOSBOX could turn another Bochs (theoretically running everything, practically being buggy as hell - I did not check Bochs for some months, so if anything changed I apologize...).

Mirek

I don't want to *RUN* NT in DosBox I just want to see if I can get it to do the install.

twickline wrote:

I don't want to *RUN* NT in DosBox I just want to see if I can get it to do the install.

It won't as, as with all versions of Windows >= 95, part of the install is done running the OS itself. Iirc, the install for WinNT3.x (and 4) loads a bunch of PM drivers, then switches to PM and starts the actual install. But this might be WinNT4 only, my memory is a bit vague here...

JAL