I installed windows 3.11 for workgroups in a 386 based system, 4 Mb ram, 47 mb HD (Seagate) and dm9008f network card. I made the installation on a preformatted hard drive and already created a dos logical partition. The only thing I used for this was a 6.22 dos boot disk (to format and fdisk) then installed w3.11fwg (always booting from the floppy). I did this in order to share my internet connection with other computer running under windows me. The problem is that when I try to boot (after “configure” the network in windows 3.11 and execute SYS C:) this message appears: ”missing HIMEM.SYS; Make sure that the file is on your windows directory and that its location is correctly specified in your config.sys file” ż?.....i opened the config.sys in the windows directory an it is empty…can anybody tellme how to edit this file to make it work fine?? I did something wrong when installed OS just with the bootdisk?? There are some missing file to make it boot fine??.... if someone have any suggestion to solve the network configuration problem, the booting and config.sys problem or internet sharing connection, whatever, i`ll really appreciate!!! Thanks a lot…Manuel Vera from Venezuela.

Manuel, If you did not install MS-DOS you need to do so. You'll likely have to reinstall 3.11 afterward. Let us know. Skip

Unlike Windows 95 and beyond, Windows 3x does not intall its own boot loader. Its needs MS-DOS (or other DOS) to be installed first. As a bare minimum you can get away with the 3 basic DOS files IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS & COMMAND.COM along with AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS Insert your 6.22 bootdisk and start your computer. At the A: prompt type SYS C: and press ENTER. Your harddrive should now boot OK with Windows remaining intact. You need to create Autoexec.Bat & Config.Sys files in the root directory as MS-DOS does not look into C:\Windows to find the startup files. Bare Minimum entries for files should be: [config.sys] DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS [autoexec.bat] @ECHO OFF PATH C:\;C:\WINDOWS SET TEMP=C:\TEMP WIN Notes Config.Sys will look for the Windows version of Himem.Sys since you have not installed C:\DOS and the rest of the files. you need to create an empty directory called C:\TEMP as well as this keeps any temporary files in one place to delete every now and then! The last lint WIN will automaticly start Windows for you. HTH