Software development industry analysis by Larry O'Brien, the former editor of Software Development and Computer Language
Saturday, May 05, 2007

My goal is to create a VM running Windows 3.11 (VMWare by preference, but Virtual PC if it's easier).

One can download EN_MSDOS60.EXE and EN_WIN311.EXE from MSDN, but these files seem to simply be compressions of the files in the relevant distributions. Most challengingly, EN_MSDOS60.EXE uncompresses to ~6MB. I can make a bootable floppy (now that I just went out and bought a USB floppy drive), but I can't put all of the files within the DOS distro on a single floppy. Searching for variations of "Install DOS" they all talk of the DOS setup disks. If I could get the file list for the DOS setup disks, I imagine that I could recreate them manually. Does anyone have that?

Or alternately, did I miss a downloadable, bootable CD-ROM image?

Or alternately, am I missing another way to accomplish my task?

Update: Looks to be a little harder than getting the right files on the floppy. My command prompts for important functions like fdisk and sys always result in "Incorrect DOS version"

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