May 5, 2007, 10:57 am
There are lots of worthy causes out there to donate to, but it’s always nice to have a personal connection. Scott Hanselman, whose blog and podcast are must-reading/hearing, is fighting diabetes.
I’ll be matching donations to Team Hanselman up to … see now, never having done this before, I don’t know if I’m supposed to say the amount or keep it private or what … But anyway, contribute to Team Hanselman between May 9 and May 11, mention me or this blog and make me pay…
May 5, 2007, 9:35 am
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”
