First post, by Kerkerian
Hello!
yesterday I tried to install Win 3.11 for workgroups in the DosBox machine, but it didn't really work. I think it might be a good idea to tell you, what I've done.
After Installing DosBox, tipped:
mount a d:\dosbox\a
mount c d:\dosbox\c
mount d f:\ -t cdrom
I also installed some modifications, so the language is in german and I can use a german keyboard (for example, y and z is no longer 'switched')
I have done that with a file called "deutsch.lng" (for german language) and Keyb.exe, which is part of FreeDos.
Now the installation began. I once copied all win 3.11 floppy disks on a cd and burned them, so I thought I can copy all files from each floppy disk into the 'd:\dosbox\a' - path, everytime The Installation is asking for the next disk. In DosBox, I changed to a:\ and tipped SETUP - and the setup began.
After it copied the data from floppy disk one (or better to say: it installed them) it asked for floppy-disk one. I just hit [Return], because all files from floppy disk 1 were in the folder, that DosBox should accept as the FloppyDrive.
It asked again for disk 1 - after several times hitting [Return] DosBox broke down.
Okay, I mean, it's Windows, so it would be suspicous if something works how I planned it at the first time.
This time I copied all files from all FloppyDisks into 'd:\dosbox\a' - my DosBox FloppyDrive.
Well, now it asked again for Disk1 after coping all files from disk1 and I had to hit [Return] again, but instead of crashing, it copied "something" (I don't know what it copied, because all files from disk1 were already copied...) it asked for disk2. Guess what I had to do? Right - hit the [Return]-Key several times. Then an error occured and it told me, that either 'win.ini' or 'system.ini' are too big or my system has to less memory.
I changed "memsize=16" into "memsize=64" but this error occured again. My families old computer (cpu=74MHz, 4 MB of memory) was able to run Win3.11 and even Win95, so I don't think that the problem lies in to less memory.
I hope my English is not too messed up and you understood everything well.
So: is somebody out there, who knows how to install win3.11 on dosbox (and tell me what I've done wrong)? (It would even help me, if you know that it's completely impossible, but I would ask you for a source of that information...)
