hey guys, gals i'm gonna have an old-skool computer with windows 3.1 and its gonna have 41^dos games, programs and more and i have the setup disks but it won't run the os its under directory c:/windows is there anything i should change?
If you have all 6 setup disks in good shape simply boot with an old dos floppy and type in "deltree windows" at the C prompt. You can then install a fresh copy to get things going there. The actual size of 3.1 was like 35mb total when everything was unpacked, You would also need the floppies for the games/programs to then go on.
OR! You can take any newer OS even on a Vista OSed machine and use DOSBox to mount the old stuff on a virtual drive. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get screen shots of the original 8bit version of Duke Nukem to show you here using DOSBox.
The idea of Dosbox is for use on the newer versions of Windows since 3.1 was simply a desktop application running on dos then. You don't run the 3.1 installer or that version's setup through Dosbox if you tried that. That's simply a tool for running old dos games and apps on the newer OSs by way of a virtual drive there. What system are you trying to install 3.1 onto?
