At 05:38 AM 8/11/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:

> An unanswered question is are you able to successfully install Windows 3.1
> itself over FreeDOS?  Attempting to do so here aborts the install while it

Yes I were able to do that. I copied all disk contents into 7 directories
first (because I got an original and therefore very old pile of disks and
I wanted to have a backup first). Then I copied all 7 directories into
one directory, and started the install process from there.
Of course I selected manual / custom installation, and used
some sane / generic drivers (VGA16, LMouse, no network...)
at first. Everything worked okay, even MSD worked (looks as

Seems to be very flakey and system dependent. Here, WINSETUP consistently fails during init into GPF, even with vanilla setup and true-blue MS-DOS HIMEM and EMM386, or no EMM386 present. It starts Windows to get name and option install info during initialization process, but that's as far as it goes.





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