Hi, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 9:40 AM, James Crawford <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a Pentium 3 running Freedos alone. I tried to load Win 3.1 and got > the error : Win 3.1 will not run in protected mode. I understand that the > command.com runs in protected mode. Do I have to change this permanently to > run Windows. How do I get Windows to work?
No, the shell (COMMAND.COM) runs in low RAM / real mode (optionally compiled to use some XMS for swapping). Presumably this means it's getting confused because you have EMM386 (V86 mode) loaded. AFAIK, Win 3.x only works in "standard" (286) mode with FreeDOS due to some undocumented methods that Windows used to access the DOS internals. But Win 3.x fully works in DR-DOS, for example (and allegedly faster than even MS-DOS). I don't know if those undocumented features were ever publicized. Probably nobody here cared enough to debug it fully. Later Win95 was for (bundled) MS-DOS only. I know some people claimed that DOSBox (with its own different fake DOS) can run Win 3.x too, but I guess it's unlikely you'll want to "install" a different OS (but Kolibri is very very lean and maybe? boots off FAT32) just for that emulator. It honestly might be easier to just find an old copy of Win95 on eBay or wherever and use that instead. http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/DosBox The only technical document I know of about this is here, but I'm not sure it'll directly help you: http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/win3.x-dosext-freedos-notes.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
