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First post, by Naxuz

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I've spent a good amount of time trying to make sense out of all this, and this is where I've decided to yell for help:

Apparently I need to create a bootable image with DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on it to enable loading the NE2000 driver at boot, enabling Win 3.11 networking. Problem is, I have no idea whatsoever how to go about doing this. I've tried to make a bootable image of my own by using MB5's IMGMAKE and then trying to install Dos 6.22 on it, but the installation program requires booting the box with Ctrl-Alt-Del, which doesn't work. I've also tried to boot a pre-installed Dos 6.22 image, but MB5 just gives me the error message "PROGRAM_BOOT_UNABLE" when I use first use

"imgmount 2 "40mb.img" -size 512,63,16,650 -t hdd -fs none" to create an empty partition to install Windows to and then

"boot dos622.iso" to load up DOS. Of course, I could just copy the contents of the DOS622 iso to the empty IMG file, or could I?

Windows-side, I've tried to set up Windows Networking with a NE2000-compatible network adapter and the Microsoft TCP/IP stack, but I've understood all that is futile until I can load the NE2000 driver at startup.

Any pointers?

Reply 2 of 9, by Naxuz

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Having tried that the issue seems to be with the MB5: for some reason the boot function simply refuses to work. Anyone else with the same problem?

Reply 3 of 9, by h-a-l-9000

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DOSBox doesn't boot from ISO files

1+1=10

Reply 4 of 9, by Naxuz

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Cor, didn't know that. Got it working from an IMG boot disk, thanks for the pointers!

Reply 5 of 9, by Irishtiger

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Gang, what I am hearing is that it is not possible, even with Megabuild 5, to do networking with the NE2000 patch in Windows 3.11. I am having no joy using any of the suggestions here. Can someone who has gotten it working write a guide or help me out here? I'd really appreciate it.

IT

Reply 7 of 9, by h-a-l-9000

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A. The NE2000 patch does not work on Mac.
B. You need to make an image with MS-DOS and Windows 3.11.

I repeat myself...

1+1=10

Reply 8 of 9, by Irishtiger

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h-a-l, you've been able to get networking running using Bochs to create a disk image, right? Any special caveats outside of the link above?

Oh, and I am not using Mac. Thanks for the quick, albeit somewhat defeated-sounding, reply.