Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Dotnetjunky — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:47:00 GMT

Hi, do you know where can I get the installation disks for windows 3.11, either free or commercial ?

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Marcus — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:56:00 GMT

Ben,

Hi mate. Slightly off-topic but still relating to VPC - is a future version planning support for USB devices? That would be so handy in my case. I have to use the VMWare version for USB support.

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Virtual PC Guy — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:56:00 GMT

Hi Dotnetjunky,

Unfortunately I do not know of any legitimate way to get a copy of Windows 3.11 apart from eBay or second had software shops (they do exist). I am lucky enough to have two copies on Windows 3.11 that I have kept from the days of yore.

Cheers,
Ben

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Virtual PC Guy — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:01:00 GMT

Hi Marcus,

USB is a very high demand feature for Virtual PC - however talking about future releases of Microsoft products on your blog is an excellent to loose your job around here - so I am afraid that I can't give you much detail on this.

Cheers,
Ben

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

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re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

RichNRockvilleMD — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:55:00 GMT

I had done this a while ago and can appreciate the work you put in getting wfwg3.11 up and running. I am glad that I am a pack rat and had all the dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 still laying around. I had evenput them all on a cdrom which I then was able to use. It is really a trip running windows 3.11 and getting on the web..

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Greg — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:08:00 GMT

On MSDN Download (part of the MSDN Subscription, http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/subscribers ) Windows 3.11 can be downloaded.

I don't know what MSDN level you need though, as you can see there are a couple. With MSDN Universal I can see/download it, if that helps.

It's under /Platforms/Windows 16-Bit Editions/Windows 3.11/Windows 3.11 (English)

You can also get MS-DOS 6.0,6.2, Windows For Workgroups 3.11, etc... I love my MSDN subscription. :)

Hope this helps.

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Jeff Atwood — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:37:00 GMT

WFW 3.11 running on VPC? This is wrong on so many levels.

I FOR ONE SIR APPLAUD YOU!

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Akuma — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:59:00 GMT

Hi Ben,

Firstly congratulations for your Blog!!!
Secondly I've installed successfully Windows 3.11 for WorkGroup, and got installed all the components to surf the web. BUT in some pages, like for example www.retrogames.com and others I get an error that causes IE to close it, hanging the system. This doesn't happen oppening the same pages from the Opera browser, but I think the error is caused due to I've an Athlon XP processor, and probably any part of the code executed in this pages are incompatible with IE and this processor. This error doesn't come out on the same pages at home, where I've Pentium IV processor.
Any ideas about this?

Thanks.

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:39:00 GMT

Hi Akuma,

Unfortunately this is most likely going to be a problem with Windows 3.11 on Athlon processors (given that the problem does not happen on your PIV).

Cheers,
Ben

re: Networking Windows 3.11 under Virtual PC (HELP!!!)

butterfly — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:17:00 GMT

Uhm... Great guide... Anywayz... When it comes to net start (i mean when i see the command appear at the dos prompt it reports a couple of errors: 7308 and 7321 and it says it cannot find the CFGDRVR0 driver