Ok, I'm reading the guide on installing Windows into DOSbox, following it to the letter, but it just won't work for me. Here's a screenshot of what happened when I went into my "oldgames\doswin3\win31" directory and typed setup <enter>

well, then there is something wrong with your files. DID you EXTRACT the files from the images of your floppies? What does happen when you type "dir *.exe" in that win31 directory?

also, I doubt that these lines :

set path=c:\windows
set temp=c:\windows\temp

are appropriate now that as far as I can tell no windows folder exists in your mounted c: drive,

I mean if in c:\ you type dir
I don't think that beside your doswin3 directory you can see another one called "windows".

yeah, and that is not in my guide 😀

Here's my win31 subdirectory. It's inside of the doswin3 directory. Ok, I deleted the inappropriate commands from my DOSbox's config file. Here are the latest screenshots of my next attempt. Yes, I've extracted the contents from the floppy *ima files and renamed them (there's 8 total) as follows: "win001"; "win002"; "win003"; "win004"; ..."win008". I'm stumped. Please read the screenshots in "a, b, c" order (don't know why they went in backwards; I've submitted "a" first, then "b" and "c" last).

P.S. Do I have to make a "windows" subdirectory inside of the "doswin3" main directory and put all of the extracted file contents into that?

This is a part of my win3install folder, merged the content from all floppies into one folder:

Are you saying that you extracted the contents of all the downloaded drivers (SB16, WinG, S3, etc.) plus the contents of all the floppy *ima files and dropped them into one Windows (win3install) install folder, and installed from that folder?

Oh, I see what you mean: My windows directory doesn't look like yours. I guess I'm supposed to manually open each of the extracted files, copy and paste the contents into a separate Windows install folder that's special only for installing windows. Right? Am I supposed to lump all the contents together into one install folder, or what?

Why the hell is this thread 2 pages long?

It looks like you ran "setup.exe" in your "win31" folder which doesn't have a "setup.exe" when you should be running "setup.exe" in the folder you extracted it to.

Kelly Stiver wrote:

Oh, I see what you mean: My windows directory doesn't look like yours. I guess I'm supposed to manually open each of the extracted files, copy and paste the contents into a separate Windows install folder that's special only for installing windows. Right? Am I supposed to lump all the contents together into one install folder, or what?

All that is true. If you copy the content of all install floppies of win3 into one folder (as my pict shows), you (btw the installer) don't have to ask for the next floppy disk. 😉

Why the hell is this thread 2 pages long?

This thread is pure comedy. Thanks for making my evening. (;

P.S.: just a random thought - i wonder if the posters are aware that the first name "Kelly" is common for both male and female persons. Honi soit qui mal y pense...

I didn't even look closely at the name and in the context of Dosbox I would have assumed the poster to be male anyway. 😀

I'm back. Thanks, IIGS_user, for sticking by me. You're a real friend. I got Windows 3.xx installed successfully into DOSbox, and am now trying to install all the drivers. (I'm following Dominus's Windows 3.1x on DOSbox guide to the letter) First driver I'm trying to install--video drivers. first, I selected "display" and scrolled all the way down to "other" and entered the path <enter> and tried to install a tseng 4000 video driver which I downloaded a couple of months ago and Setup asked me for the "OEMsetup.inf" and it gave me 2 choices: enter and quit setup. I pressed <enter> again hoping to skip the OEMsetup part but setup took me back to the place where I was supposed to enter the path of the display driver in the first place. So I went to cnet, downloaded an s3 driver for windows 3.1x into my c:\oldgames\win\drivers directory and tried again: typing in the full path--c:\oldgames\win\drivers\s3 <enter> and again setup asked for the OEMsetup.inf and the same thing happened: I pressed <enter> 2X, back to where I'm supposed to type in the path of the driver. What am I supposed to do now?

If you followed Dominus' guide, how the hell did you decide to use the et4000 driver?

Somewhere there must be svga driver, they should be the better choice.

Why, please tell me, why can't you follow my guide? FOLLOW the guide and it will work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I even made it a pictorial guide so you can SEE what to do...

Somewhere there must be svga driver

Uh...

Welcome to the world of guide-writing Dominus.

I am following your guide, Dominnus. Here are the screenshots of my attempts to set up the display driver. I think my Windows setup screen looks different from yours, Dominus. I'm using Windows 3.11 and I start DOSbox, (I'm at the prompt) I type cd windows <enter>, setup <enter>, and I come to Screenshot A. Originally Windows Setup had the VGA video driver listed in Screenshot A, but I've changed it to Super VGA, 1024 x 768 colors, exited, typed win to start Windows 3.xx, and got an error with the video (in DOSbox) after the Windows 3.11 logo came up. Read my screenshots from A to E, following Dominus's guide.

MiniMax wrote:

Welcome to the world of guide-writing Dominus.

ROTFLMAO
forgive me Domine (<- vocative) I couldn't resist the tickle 😁

wow, been away 48 hrs. and voilà this thread is mushrooming out like crazy. Excellent !

May I add it seems to me there's a little misunderstanding going on here.

Apparently Kelly has really been reading the Lord's guide, but he/she/don'tcare/which/is/which keeps on getting the timings of it all wrong.

For instance the set path thing does happen to be in the guide, only, Kelly, what was wrong with it is : it only makes sense after you completed the Win3.11 install, right ?
Should you reply then : but I already had a c:\windows folder here before that, well this would only show you haven't started thinking dosboxwise so to speak.

Or, when you talk about the et4000 driver, well this is indeed quoted in the guide, it's true, but still something must have gone awry when I read you write
"typing in the full path--c:\oldgames\win\drivers\s3 <enter>"

why, no, that you can't do, you have to remount the oldgames folder in dosbox before installing the drivers and at this point you'd better consider that path isn't valid, I repeat, the business being within a dosbox mounted drive.
That's where you are.

@gidierre, oops, you are right I do set the path and it needs to be set differently to accomodate for z...
(edit: fixed this in the guide)

@Kelly, follow the guide TO THE LETTER!!!! I look at your screenshots and the paths are all different. You don't have to follow the guide if you are grasping how things work in Dosbox, but obviously you don't get it, hence you should follow the guide TO THE LETTER!!!!