Hi! > I think I'm using the stable kernel instead of the > unstable one. > > I get an error that says essentially unload the > protected mode software and try again when windows > tries to start.
Neither free-EMM386 nor JEMM386 is compatible with Windows 3.x 386enh mode or WfW 3.11... You would have to start Windows 3.x in the "standard mode" (WIN /S). Unfortunately the options in WfW 3.11 are more limited, their non-386enh mode is more like a "safe mode". Note that none of the Windows 3 versions can start if you give them more than 256 MB of RAM, or 1024 MB with a special configuration. > Are people taking out the smartdrive stuff or > simply adding a menu entry and if someone wants > windows loading it? Smartdrive? Menu entry? > BTW: I found out that curl can load a very large > file without crashing on my system, but using it > doesn't make fdupdate work. Maybe fdupdate or curl leaves open a file and you would have to load SHARE to get DOS happy? > Are there special tricks I need to know about > to get Windows 3.1 running on freedos? Do only > older versions of Windows work? See above - make sure you do not confuse 3.1 with Windows FOR WORKGROUPS 3.ELEVEN ;-). There is an experimental compile-time option for the unstable kernel which tries to make WfW 3.11 and 386enh run but Jeremy Davis who wrote it is hard to reach at the moment, it seems. www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08649.html www.deskwork.de/DOWNLOAD/DOS.HTM www.deskwork.de/INFOS/DOS.HTM#anc7 (German but useful - try Babelfish translations) > What on a typical freedos system runs in protected > mode? Maybe Windows 3.1 is stupid and it thinks > the system is in protected mode? The EMM386 does, and some DOS extenders / DPMI hosts. The problem is that Windows in 386enh mode and WfW 3.11 try to "take over" the work from EMM386 which uses a complex "what exactly are you doing at the moment?" interface called GEMMIS which is not supported by any free open source EMM386 yet. And actually Windows is the ONLY software which ever used GEMMIS, so there is not much motivation to implement it yet... > When I installed Windows 3.1, it seemed to start > up okay. I just can't get it back up is all. Interesting. Try to backup and compare the INI files at the next install ;-). And use WIN /S. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
