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installing windows win311wg from cd

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Name: madwolf
Date: December 18, 2005 at 10:23:32 Pacific
OS: windows win311wg
CPU/Ram: Na
Comment:

hi all
i i have a copy of win3.11 Workgroups
what do i change in the Setup.inf??? is this it
1 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #1",\win311\disk1
2 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #2",\win311\disk2
3 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #3",\win311\disk3
4 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #4",\win311\disk4
5 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #5",\win311\disk5
6 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #6",\win311\disk6
7 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #7",\win311\disk7
8 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #8",\win311\disk8

and windose 3.11 the seitup disk 1 do i put in a folder or the mane direktore
\win311\disk1
\win311\




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Response Number 1
Name: madwolf
Date: December 18, 2005 at 10:28:24 Pacific
Reply:

edit
and windose 3.11 the setup disk 1 do i put in a folder or the mane direktore
\win311\disk1
\win311\


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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: December 18, 2005 at 11:44:10 Pacific
Reply:

Proper spelling would go a long way in expressing your request.

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!


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Response Number 3
Name: madwolf
Date: December 18, 2005 at 17:00:06 Pacific
Reply:

is there a way of installing windows 3.11 workgroup from cd i sore on a previous post that mayd me think yes but the anser whas not clear enough

"The following section tells Windows Setup to look for the file "disk#" in the root directory of each disk:

; Names of the disks Setup can prompt for.
[disks]
1 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #1",disk1
2 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #2",disk2
3 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #3",disk3
4 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #4",disk4
5 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #5",disk5
6 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #6",disk6

So I think if you store files in say \win31\ on your CD
I think you would need to change this to read:

1 =. ,"Microsoft Windows 3.1 Disk #1",\win31\disk1

and so on....

I have not tested this so the way you change it may be a little differant? The rest of SETUP.INI referances files by first number (1:) only

I do not have time to test this at the moment, so please let us know if it indeed works for a sub-directory on CD

If anyone else has any ideas on this please also let us know?


hear is my attemptd
1 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #1",\win311\disk1
2 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #2",\win311\disk2
3 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #3",\win311\disk3
4 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #4",\win311\disk4
5 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #5",\win311\disk5
6 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #6",\win311\disk6
7 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #7",\win311\disk7
8 =. ,"Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Disk #8",\win311\disk8

i have the cd setup like this ? being the drive letter
?\win311\
all the setup disk are in a folders disk 1 to 8


sorry abort the first post



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Response Number 4
Name: jboy
Date: December 18, 2005 at 17:58:15 Pacific
Reply:

I didn't realize that English was no longer being spoken (or at least, written) by those from England

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers


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Response Number 5
Name: T-R-A
Date: December 18, 2005 at 22:09:08 Pacific
Reply:

>>>I didn't realize that English was no longer being spoken (or at least, written) by those from England<<<

LMAO...

Why not just drop the contents of each subdirectory (i.e. \disk1, \disk2, etc.) into an empty subdirectory (i.e. C:\temp\disk1, C:\temp\disk2, etc.) and install from HDD?...


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Response Number 6
Name: abdul_ahad
Date: December 19, 2005 at 09:18:38 Pacific
Reply:

you do not have to change anything in the setup.inf
just copy the contents of all the disks to ONE
empty directory
eg c:\winsetup ,DO NOT copy the contents of each disk to a different sub directory (disk 1, disk 2 etc.)
create 8 text files in this directory with the names disk1,disk2 ... disk8 (no extensions)
the contents of the file disk1 should be the string disk1 that of file disk2 should be the string disk2 and so on
now install from the c:\winsetup in the harddisk
if you want to install from a CDROM copy (ie. burn) this directory onto a CDROM and run setup from the cd drive
i am not an expert like the others around here, but this is what i did, and it worked


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Response Number 7
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: December 19, 2005 at 15:05:54 Pacific
Reply:

jboy, you tickle me. :)

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Response Number 8
Name: windows31rox
Date: December 19, 2005 at 18:42:37 Pacific
Reply:

I was able to get Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to install from a CD as long as I had a boot disk with CD-ROM drivers on it (downloaded from bootdisk.com) it worked fine because it could find all the files in one place. You can not use subdirectories though or it will not work.

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Response Number 9
Name: T-R-A
Date: December 19, 2005 at 21:30:47 Pacific
Reply:

Sorry, my bad. Guess I had Office 4.3 or Works 3.0 on the brain (from a previous install)...


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Response Number 10
Name: GX1 Man
Date: December 20, 2005 at 21:11:17 Pacific
Reply:

Abdul was right. You can just copy them ALL into one directory and setup.exe will make it install QUICKLY from hard disk or CD.


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Response Number 11
Name: H898
Date: December 29, 2005 at 05:25:37 Pacific
Reply:

so i put all the 8 folders in 1 folder on the cd and install it


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Response Number 12
Name: H898
Date: December 29, 2005 at 05:27:29 Pacific
Reply:

the folder example d:\win311

then in that folder is all 8 folders


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Response Number 13
Name: H898
Date: December 29, 2005 at 05:29:58 Pacific
Reply:

or could it read better with all the setup contents in 1 massive folder save having them in individual folders on the cd or would that cause the setup to fail.?


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Response Number 14
Name: abdul_ahad
Date: December 29, 2005 at 08:26:30 Pacific
Reply:

H898
you put the CONTENTS of all 8 folders in ONE ( MASSIVE as you have stated ) folder i.e. D:\WIN311
this way setup would proceed smoothly without any obstacle.

if you put the contents of the 8 disks in 8 folders , setup would not fail, but after copying the files from the folder containing files from disk1 you would be prompted to enter the path for the location of the files from disk2, then disk3 etc.


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