Install Windows 3.11 From Usb
You can get a floppy emulator that physically connects to the floppy controller in place of the floppy drive. To 'load' a floppy disk, you simply choose the image file.
Then you don't have to mess with floppy disks at all, and the computer doesn't notice any difference.Some of these emulators mount in the floppy drive bay, then you load the images onto an SD card or USB stick and select the active image using buttons on the front of the emulator.Other emulators connect via USB to another computer running software to choose the image file. Then you don't have to mess with SD cards or fiddle with buttons, but the downside of course is that it depends on a second computer sitting nearby.
Basically want to slap this into a VM and play around with it again, but for the life of me cannot remember how to do this.Alright so I've downloaded the Windows 3.11 from Technet. Gave me a bunch of files (no image file, just the files). Figured I could stick all those files into an ISO and boot from CDROM- no go. Figured I could stick all those files into an IMG and boot from floppy- no go (black screen).How the heck do I do this?
I've got a Win98 boot disk image that I've used to FDISK the thing but I cannot get into the setup for the life of me. Click to expand.You need a program to write those image files to floppy disks. Winimage comes to mind and it has a shareware program you can use.I'm with YeOldeStonecat here. It has been a while.
Pretty much you use a floppy image program to write the floppy images to disk. Might be able to use a floppy drive emulator as well. Pretty much install a floppy drive emulator in the host os. The VM might pick it up. Once you install DOS you can go through and launch windows 3.11 from disk and install it. If you've got the upgrade, you'll have to work around the installer (or do it manually).
If you boot to the 6.22 upgrade disk, you should be able to exit the install (just hold shift while it's booting). Once you're at a dos prompt, you should be able to fdisk your hard drive.
You'll have to reboot, then you can get back to the dos prompt and format it. Use the /S parameter to copy the system files, or do a 'SYS C:' after the format to make it bootable.Once you've got that, you can just run the setup on the upgrade disk.
It will see an OS on the hard drive and continue on with the install. Then you'll reboot and have a working Dos 6.22 machine.Not sure what the files look like for Win3.x, but you'll probably need to run the setup and it will install itself. If that doesn't work, just copy all the files into C:Windows and run win.com. Click to expand.I'm not talking about using floppy drives, I am talking about using floppy images. I know at least in vmware you can create a blank floppy image, mount it to a machine, and then copy files on to it (using a VM with windows on it already).
Then use that same floppy image on the dos vm. Or just use winimage like has been said several times.The windows disks dont need to be bootable, you only need one bootable dos disk to sys the drive with, and the dos download should have that. (Or, again you can use winimage.). If you've got the upgrade, you'll have to work around the installer (or do it manually). If you boot to the 6.22 upgrade disk, you should be able to exit the install (just hold shift while it's booting). Once you're at a dos prompt, you should be able to fdisk your hard drive. You'll have to reboot, then you can get back to the dos prompt and format it.
Use the /S parameter to copy the system files, or do a 'SYS C:' after the format to make it bootable.Once you've got that, you can just run the setup on the upgrade disk. It will see an OS on the hard drive and continue on with the install. Then you'll reboot and have a working Dos 6.22 machine.
On C: do a dir /a to make sure you've got IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS (hidden files) which house the basic drivers and kernel.The SYS command 'should' have copied these files and written to the MBR. Dunno what went wrong though.Back in the day I'd install DOS by SYS C:, then copying all the required files into C:DOS, or in later versions, running the installer which basically just did the copy for you off the floppies.If you manage to get this far, the Windows 3.1 install is easy, just run the setup EXE. Post screenshots if you conquer the beast. Put all the Windows files on an ISO like you planned.
Install From Usb Windows 10
Then tell the virtual machine that ISO is the cd drive or however you want to do it. Then you need a cdrom driver for dos so you can get to D:I did all this with VMware workstation a few weeks ago. It has virtual floppy drive managing so I used a virtual Win2K install to put stuff on virtual floppy disks. Since with VM stuff installed you can simply drag files onto the desktop and it will transfer them across machines. After dos can see CDs there should be a setup.exe to install win 3.1.
I'll take another look at my vm'sYes, sound and network drivers are tricky. I haven't done those yet.And some reason after windows 3.11 finished installing it never started up on its own.so I typed edit autoexec.batand added the line C:windowswin.