Hey all,

Got bored, and like most bored people I decided to play with a 30 year old obsolete OS.

Basically I made an auto-install iso which automatically does the following:
1) Installs dos (tested with 6.22)
2) Installs Win3.11 + TCPIP + VMware's virtual AMD network card
3) Installs Soundblaster 16 drivers
4) Has the option to run a modified and a bit problematic modified svga driver (google for info about the patch).

How to use.
Copyright dictates that it's not a complete iso. It's a template you'll have to fill with your own presumably licenced files.
I suggest using ultraiso to:
1) Copy the contents of your dos floppies into the dos622 folder
2) Copy the contents of your win311 floppies into the win311 folder BUT DO NOT OVERWRITE ANY EXISTING FILES
3) Save/burn
4) Install (<5min - most of the time is taken up by the cdrom driver loading every reboot (~5). True story.)

Installation process.
Most of the time it's just hitting enter when required. There's one expected error where you have to press A. It's noted.
Once you're in windows, try the modded display driver, reboot a few times if it hangs and see if it starts working.

Notes
1) This was built with vmware player and is therefore built around whatever quirks it may have.
2) It should still work on real hardware because it doesn't modify anything important
3) The setup kinda assumes the drive won't be formatted at all. It will do the fdisk stuff and continue. It MAY work on a formatted drive. See #1
4) The modified svga driver is called SVGB256.drv. It shows in the standard "change video" area of the setup as "0 VMWARE Patched SVGA 1024x768x256". It is renamed so it doesn't interfere with the original SVGA256.drv or it's settings (ie so the iso can work on real hardware too)
5) The modded svga driver WILL disable filesharing. I found that little tip when I was wondering why it's so glitchy. It may... just freeze sometimes on boot. Not sure if that's the driver or just vmware. It worked after a few reboots on mine. It will glitch out if you use a dos window. Don't.
6) If the svga driver glitches to the point you can't handle, run the c:\windows\setup and change to vga to fix it.
7) The files currently in the win311 folder are modified setup text files, winfile (y2k update), and the TCPIP addon. These are free to distribute AFIK.
😎 No guarantees. No support. It works for me, if it doesn't work for you I don't really care.
9) Try with/adapt it to other versions if you want. Compare the infs. See the tricks that make it work.
10) I'll probably never run it again. It was just a puzzle to solve to automate it all to a fairly clean and working state.