Trying to install 3.11 on a friend's computer with DOS 6.2 already installed.

After install, I get the message

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is now setup.

Remove any floppy disks from your drives.

You need to incorporate the proposed changes into your config.sys, and then restart your computer. Then type WIN at the MS-DOS prompt to start Windows.

What are the "proposed changes"? I have installed 3.11 before and never had to incorporate proposed changes into config.sys. I've done this twice and if I just restart the computer, it's like 3.11 was never even written to the drive.

Thanks!

Stephen Fox
Windows 95 4.00.950 C
PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB RAM
GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKTOP 80GB

PS ignore the info that was automatically put into the fields above. It is not Win 95 Gateway. That is my machine.

The computer 3.11 is being put on is a 486 DX2 50MHz with 8MB RAM.

Stephen Fox
Windows 95 4.00.950 C
PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB RAM
GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKTOP 80GB

I've never heard of "proposed changes" either and I've installed WFW more times than I care to think about.

I think that WFW used to REM out part of config.sys so you might take a look.

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When you install Windows 3.1x, it makes changes to autoexec.bat and config.sys. For the most part, this amounts to the following.

1. installing HIMEM.SYS from the windows directory. If your version of DOS uses a later version (eg those from Win98), you should use those instead.

2. installing SMARTDRV.EXE from the windows directory. (ditto).

3. putting stacks=9,256 into config.sys

4. including the windows directory into the DOS path.

Wfw 3.11 is typically installed from DOS, the particular message comes up if you do not allow setup to make the proposed changes. You may have saved the proposed autoexec.bat and config.sys in the \windows directory, as autoexec.win and config.win.

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Mystery solved!

Apparently you can't install Windows 3.11 to c:\win, you need to install it to c:\windows.
I went back into DOS, did del c:\windows (which had nothing in it), confirmed yes, then reinstalled 3.11 and it is working great.

Thanks for the help!

Stephen Fox
Windows 95 4.00.950 C
PENTIUM MMX 333MHz; 384MB RAM
GATEWAY 2000 P6-333 DESKTOP 80GB

AHA

Thanks for letting us know.

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