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September 1, 2007
Installing Windows 3.1 in VMWare
If you plan on installing Windows 3.1 or even just DOS in VMWare, you'll need a few extra things. I have prepared a floppy image containing utilities for DOS in VMWare.
It contains the following:
DOSIDLE.EXE- A small TSR utility that puts the processor into idle mode; without this, your VM will use 100% of the host CPU, all the time. Retreived from http://www.jradconsulting.com/download/index.html asdosidle210.zip. (c) Marton Balog and widely distributed by VMWare.CDROMdirectory - Contains a setup application for Hitachi IDE CDROM drives, this also conveniently supports the VMWare emulated CDROM drive (and likely any other ATAPI drive).PCNETdirectory - AMD's DOS/NDIS2 driver files for the PCNet family of network interfaces. This will come in handy if you plan to install Windows 3.x. Simply point the installer to these files.
Posted by spiffed at September 1, 2007 12:39 AM
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Thank you!
Posted by: Greg at March 2, 2008 11:13 PM