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Forum: EasyBoot Topic: Win 3.1 BootCD started by: linomics Posted by linomics on Nov. 24 2005,09:21
I am new to the boot community and I have a question how to create a Win 3.1 BootCD. Unfortunately, I did not find similar topic in the forum. Ist there one?does anyone have experience with creating Win 3.1 BootCD? I have all the required licensed installation diskettes, bu I do not know how to get the CD bootable. I have tried to write the boot ini files by myself, but unfortunately this does not work out - the Win 3.1 BootCD does not boot. cheers, linomics Posted by smartsaga on Nov. 29 2005,01:35
Look here:< http://www.devedia.com/dosghost/dos/ph_w31.htm > also of interest for win 3.1: < http://www.geocities.com/politalk/win31/slimwin.htm > < http://www.jankie.net/soedesh/20.htm > <- Open Windows project < http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/10534.html > Note that there are LOTS of threads about Windows 3.1 on www.computing.net. Have a good one. Posted by linomics on Nov. 29 2005,03:12
smartsaga:thanks for the links. most of them, however, discuss how to boot from Win 3.x floppy/CD-rom. I am interested in making a bootable installation CD, i.e. I do want to install my copy of Win 3.1 on HDD. linomics Posted by smartsaga on Nov. 30 2005,02:07
I understand what is it that you want to accomplish. I remember installing Windows 3.1 and 3.11 back in the day.1) You might want to make an image of the first floppy (Disk 1) with EasyBoot, then make that image big enough to hold the contents of all of the floppies. 2) Download VirtualFloppy Disk from: < http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html > unzipit to a folder where you want it installed and run the program. There is a button to install the driver for the virtual floppy. Mount image of Disk 1 with VFD and copy the contents of the remaining floppies to the image of Disk 1. (may have to edit, move, rename files) NOTE: Once you mount Disk 1 you will see the drive in Windows Explorer as B: or whatever drive letter you assigned to it. 3) Use that one image to create a bootable CD with EasyBoot and see what happens. I don't remember what the structure of the floppies was like, so I would have to look at them (but I don't have them.) to know if this instructions will be easy to follow or not. Have a good one. Posted by linomics on Dec. 05 2005,03:43
Thanks for this this information, which seems to be quite useful. Here is my next question: '...then make that image big enough to hold the contents of all of the floppies...' How do I actually change the size of the image? Can I do this with EasyBoot/UltraISO?linomics Posted by deity on Dec. 05 2005,18:16
Launch Easyboot - Tools - Create New Floppy Image I think the seed image would be the Disk 1. Image size would be the one you need to fit all files. Posted by Tattenbach on Dec. 09 2005,05:54
There was never a Windows 3.1 boot CD not a boot floppy. Windows 3.1 was supposed to be installed over DOS. Win3.1 Disk 1 (the original) was NOT bootable. You need a MSDOS 5.0 (or 3.3 or 4.0) boot Floppy. You can get a copy at www.bootdisk.com I would rather go by creating a boot CD using an MSDOS 6.0 floppy as boot source with floppy emulation (there is one at the same place with CDROM support). I am not sure if Windows 3.1 would install over DOS 6 (it came out after win31) but I see no reason why not. Put all the 7 floppys on the CD before burning it and access this drive (banana driver assigns letter R to the CDROM unit) once DOS has booted. Let me know if that helps. Posted by Tattenbach on Dec. 09 2005,05:58
Sorry, little typo******************************************** There was never a Windows 3.1 boot CD NOR a boot floppy. Windows 3.1 was supposed to be installed over DOS. Win3.1 Disk 1 (the original) was NOT bootable. You need a MSDOS 5.0 (or 3.3 or 4.0) boot Floppy. You can get a copy at www.bootdisk.com I would rather go by creating a boot CD using an MSDOS 6.0 floppy as boot source with floppy emulation (there is one at the same place with CDROM support). I am not sure if Windows 3.1 would install over DOS 6 (it came out after win31) but I see no reason why not. Put all the 7 floppys on the CD before burning it and access this drive (banana driver assigns letter R to the CDROM unit) once DOS has booted. Let me know if that helps. Posted by linomics on Jun. 06 2006,10:17
(Guest @ Dec. 09 2005,10:58) QUOTE Sorry, little typo ******************************************** There was never a Windows 3.1 boot CD NOR a boot floppy. Windows 3.1 was supposed to be installed over DOS. Win3.1 Disk 1 (the original) was NOT bootable. You need a MSDOS 5.0 (or 3.3 or 4.0) boot Floppy. You can get a copy at < www.bootdisk.com > I would rather go by creating a boot CD using an MSDOS 6.0 floppy as boot source with floppy emulation (there is one at the same place with CDROM support). I am not sure if Windows 3.1 would install over DOS 6 (it came out after win31) but I see no reason why not. Put all the 7 floppys on the CD before burning it and access this drive (banana driver assigns letter R to the CDROM unit) once DOS has booted. Let me know if that helps. I far as I know none of the original Win CDs were bootable. This was exactly my intention - to create a bootable win (3,1) CD. Apparently, it is not as easy as one could think. Anyway, thanks for the infomration! linomics Posted by Nutworld on Jan. 22 2008,08:56
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