I heard that you can put DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on a CD-R so that you can install them later from CD. How would I go about this? I've found some older posts about it but no real definitive answer to the question - such as what files would need to be in which folders, etc.

Thanks for any advice.

Alex

Yes,I just did this about a month ago..
It is very simply to do,Providing you have all the programs in a folder. This could take some time to explain,Just email me,and I will take you through the steps.(no Problem)

Its easy to burn the content of all your floppy´s on a CD-ROM.

Just make directories called DISK1, DISK2 etc. and copy all the content (including system and hidden files) to it.

For Windows 3.1x you now have a CD-ROM from which you can install, but for DOS its a bit more difficult.
Thats why I myself still install that one from floppy....

Installing Windows 3.1x from CD can be even more simple if you copy all the content of the floppies to just one directory.

If you go even another step further you could just burn the content of your C:\WINDOWS directory and its subdirectories to a CD-ROM and reinstall by doing a COPY command in DOS like this:

C:
MD WINDOWS
CD WINDOWS
XCOPY D:\WINDOWS\*.* /S /E

Its time I make a CD-ROM like that myself (a clean installation WITHOUT any drivers installed, but WITH several updated)because it would save me a lot of time! ;-)

MS-DOS 6.22 is your main problem. You cannot just copy contents of Disk 1,2 & 3 to differant directories as Soedesh states, as MS-DOS setup looks for the disk label DISK 1 (with six spaces between DISK & 1) plus DISK 2 & 3 in the same way! Even if you copy all 3 disks into the root directory and label the CD DISK 1 it will stop and ask for DISK 2 and go no further!

What I did was a fresh install MS-DOS 6.22 onto a clean harddrive. Created a 6.22 bootable CD/R and copied root files & \DOS directory onto it. Along with a SETUP.BAT file I created which transfers the system files (SYS) followed by the root files (basic autoexec.bat, config.sys and cd drivers) then run Windows Setup from \Win31 directory (Which has all 6 setup disks copied into it)

I also created a MS-DOS 6.22 bootdisk with CD-ROM drivers with a SETUP.BAT file to access older machines that do not have bootable CD as a option in BIOS

Sounds a lonf way round, but it does work.