Windows 3.1 not working
testcooldude4444 opened this issue · 12 comments
I couldn't load windows 3.1 on your site.
Indeed. This particular version of Windows has never worked on v86.
Any more info on this? I get the following - is this what everyone else gets?
Did anyone get past this?
Setup cannot install MS-DOS 6.22 on your computer.
Your computer does not have a hard disk, your hard disk
is not functioning correctly, or your hard disk requires
a special device driver. Contact your computer vendor for
assistance.
Install it within qemu (make it a raw image format) and then boot the disk image within v86
You don't need to do that. head to allbootdisks.com and look for 6.22.img use a dos manual or use freedos
Just for the record, I installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 FWG on a Qemu machine. On a v86 machine, I used that disk image with all standard graphic drivers. No one worked. But XGA (640x480, 16 colors) made the second stage installation (the one where it is shown a GUI) to appear. Unfortunately the system ended up frozen. I've been unable to reproduce that behavior once again.
Don't works on windows 3.11
@Pixelsuft That works, pretty cool. Do you have small-ish (preferably less than 100MB) disk image to share?
For reference, @Pixelsuft's Windows 3.1 is configured like this:
It seems to be working fine modulo a popup after boot. edit and qbasic don't work due to a missing FPU instruction. I took the liberty of adding it as a profile: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows31
As a tiny 30th birthday present.. The popup can be fixed by changing the startup to win -s or win /s. A well aimed
sed -i -e's/afe boot/ /' images/win31.img
should do the trick.
Standard Mode for WfW 3.1 and 3.11 (networking and some drivers are not working):
3.1: win /s
3.11: win /D:T (source)
