Re: win3.1 attempts :)

[Barnowl <barnowl@uronramp.net>]

Ryan -
  To give you hope I have seen win95 at least once installed and run via dosemu. It was on a pre-0.9x release. don't ask , dus idon't remeber how it was done :(

Evan

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:35:58 -0500
Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> So, armed with a fresh copy of DOSEMU 1.1.5.7 and quite happy with the
> changelog entry referring to windows, I set out to create a fresh
> win3.1 setup on my machine to help with hacking WINE.
> 
> I have a kernel 2.4.23-pre4 and running Debian.
> 
> I tried both the WFW3.11 and the plain Win3.1.  For each of these, I
> took the gdi.exe, user,exe, krnl386.exe, and mouse.drv from OS/2's
> windows, compressed them (-> .ex_), and replaced the original files with
> the OS/2 versions that use DPMI instead of blasted VCPI.
> 
> I put all of the windows installation disks into a single directory,
> lredir'd from the file system.
> 
> I attempted the install with each of FreeDOS (kernel 1.1.28), DR-DOS
> 7.04, and MS-DOS 6.22 running under DOSEMU.  Each time I attempt to
> install on D:\windows which is lredir'd to a dir under my home directory.
> 
> Here are the results and some notes:
> 
> WFW3.11
> -------
> FreeDOS:  Completes the initial file copy in DOS.  When it would go to
> start windows to go to the next part of the installation, it crashes to
> a dos prompt instead, sitting in D:\windows.  From there, one can issue
> .\system\krnl386.exe to start windows. (Just \system\krnl386.exe doesn't
> work; '\system' seems to be reserved to FreeDOS somehow.)  However, when
> windows starts, it complains about not being installed all the way and
> refuses to go further.  Through trial and error, I discovered that
> issuing '.\system\krnl386.exe /?' somehow bypasses this and gets one
> into the installation.
> 
> The installation is straightforward for the first part.  When it
> actually goes to copy some files, you must have a disk in the A:
> drive for some reason, or you will get an A.R.F error on screen, and
> be unable to continue the session (close dosemu).  I tried to redirect
> the floppy to /dev/null or /dev/zero, but then after the file copy, the
> installer would have a GPF and hang the DOSEMU session.. Putting a
> diskette in the A: drive for its "probe" gets us past the file copy...
> and then the session hangs with some corrupted video. :(  The mouse can
> still be moved around (you see the windows mouse moving) so the DOSEMU
> isn't completely hung-up, but windows doesn't want to do anything more.
> 
> DR-DOS/MS-DOS:  Both of these end up the same way, so I'll put them
> together.  Everything is exactly the same up until this point as FreeDOS
> except the '.\system' thing.  Both of these DOS manage to complete the
> file copy and move on to the printer setup, and afterwards the network
> configuration.  However, after the network configuration, both of them
> crash with the same GPF: WINSETUP.EXE caused a GPF in WINSETUP.EXE at
> 0001:113b.  The address is the same _every time_ the installation is
> attempted.
> 
> If I quit the dosemu session and attempt to resume the already
> half-completely installation, it is no use; it still crashes in the same
> spot after the network setup.
> 
> Ok, so I give up on WFW3.11.  Perhaps the networking portion is giving
> the dosemu some trouble.  So, I try good (bad?) old Win3.1.  All DOS
> gives me the same results here.  The initial file copy completes, then
> crashes to dos instead of starting windows.  Windows can be started
> manually in the same way as before.  The initial configuration is ok, it
> asks for a disk this time (I point it to the dir on the hdd), and
> eventually it GPF at the same segment but a different offset this time
> after the files are copied.
> 
> One difference: It complains about the mismatching of "system files",
> which I guess means that it doesn't like the OS/2 windows files as much
> as WFW3.11 did.
> 
> I want to stress that the crash addresses are not random occurrences;
> they are repeatable and deterministic.  Only once in the whole night did
> I have an unexplainable GPF while doing all these installations, which
> is about in line with windows' track record anyway... :)
> 
> So, I hope this feedback helps somehow, please let me know if you have
> any more questions.  I would like to be able to fully install WFW3.11
> under dosemu, and if the bugs can be worked out, I'll create a HTML
> walkthrough with screenshots.
> 
> See ya,
> 
> -- 
> Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253
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