Windows 3.11 help!

[Lochreas]

Ok, I have this older Compaq pc that I just installed WIndows 3.11 in and when I go to boot it up, it says I need a compatible DOS disk to make it start! Does anyone know where I can get a DOS boot disk that is compatible with Win3.11???

[craigiz1]

Man, 3.1! Might try at www.bootdisk.com look around. They have lot's of stuff.

[craigiz1]

Yea. They got DOS.

[Lochreas]

Hey thanks a lot! Yeah 3.1 is old school but it's just right for this pc and what I'll be using it for.

[Lochreas]

ok, i tried all the DOS dskson that site and none of them work! with those disks it doesn't even recognize my hard drive.

does anyone know exactly what i need to run 3.11?

[craigiz1]

What size h/d do you have and how much ram? What speed is the cpu?

[craigiz1]

http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/bootdisk.htm

A little down the page is a link to Windows ver.3.1 boot disk. did you see this?* Sorry. Thats a dead link and it's not what i thought it was.

[Lochreas]

Originally posted by craigiz1
What size h/d do you have and how much ram? What speed is the cpu?
-6gig hard drive (Fat 32) I think the other DOS disks only recognize FAT16.
-128mb Ram
-533mhz

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I found another page that talks about a boot disk for Win3.11 with Dos6.22. Does this mean that I should have Dos6.22 install on the pc also??? Where would I get that from?

[craigiz1]

Is there a reason you don't use another os? I can run '98 on a 2gig with less ram and speed.
Also, how did you format and partition for 3.1?

[craigiz1]

Take a look at this site.

http://www.megspace.com/computers/lightspeedref/main.html

[Lochreas]

It's just a preference! Anyway, I don't know why I never thought of this before, but we used pcs with Win3.11 in a Computer Science class last year for a bit before we got our new pcs and I remember that they just booted up, so they must have had DOS on them already since 3.11 doesn't come with DOS! So I am going to have to find DOs and install that on there for it to work. Haha, I'm such a dummy!:) I figured I could just use a boot disk and it would boot up, but I was wrong.

Anyway, thanks for trying to help me out!

[craigiz1]

Originally posted by Lochreas
It's just a preference! Anyway, I don't know why I never thought of this before, but we used pcs with Win3.11 in a Computer Science class last year for a bit before we got our new pcs and I remember that they just booted up, so they must have had DOS on them already since 3.11 doesn't come with DOS! So I am going to have to find DOs and install that on there for it to work. Haha, I'm such a dummy!:) I figured I could just use a boot disk and it would boot up, but I was wrong.

Anyway, thanks for trying to help me out!

In that last link I gave, there is another link called "DOS Only". Maybe that something you can use. Good luck.

[Lochreas]

Ok, I looked around and found instructions on how to install Win3.11 and it says I have to install Dos6.22 first, then install Windows. I don't know where I can get DOS! Is it still around anywhere, and does it cost money?

[craigiz1]

Originally posted by craigiz1


In that last link I gave, there is another link called "DOS Only". Maybe that something you can use. Good luck.

[ThePerfectCore]

May I ask just how in the hell you plan on installing Windows 3.1 on the FAT32 file system? :-p

Dos 6.22 is no longer sold, anywhere (new). Just search around for it, you'll find a download sooner or later.

DOS 6.22 nor Windows 3.11 will support FAT32. You'll need to cut that disk up into 2GB FAT16 chunks to use it.