I have just bought a 2gb 64mb ram gateway laptop. There are also win3.1 and wfwg 3.11 disks available. What would be the best all around way to set up this laptop to run win 3.1/3.11 system? Zip drives are dirt cheap on ebay. Which is the best way to go with this? WFWG with LFN support Calmira? What is the best DOS system to run underneath this sort of setup?

Dos 6.2x would be the best to run under this IMO. If you could get the drivers for a zip disc you could put both 3.1 and 3.11wfwg onto it and install them depending on if you need better networking or not. I'd say patition your 2 gig driver either into 4 512MB partitions or 2 1GB partitions. Mainly to reduce the cluster size. If you did make 4 however you could then put the swap file on a partition that will never really be accessed that much.

Just a tip: If you are going to run WFW 3.11, you should probably remember that firewalls were not around in '94 and that it would probably not be a good idea to put this machine online. Stephen Fox sdfox7@aol.com Windows 95 4.00.950 C PENTIUM MMX 166MHz; 256MB RAM GATEWAY P55C-166 HAMPTON; 80GB

PS this is why I use Windows 95C. Norton Internet Security 2001, Spybot 1.3, and Ad-Aware SE. Stephen Fox sdfox7@aol.com Windows 95 4.00.950 C PENTIUM MMX 166MHz; 256MB RAM GATEWAY P55C-166 HAMPTON; 80GB

"it would probably not be a good idea to put this machine online." Nonsense We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

Logging on is a distant option really. The point behind this project is to monkey with some of the old periphrials (sp) that i run across. Zip drives old mustek and acer scanners and canon/epson bubble jet printers. Win 3.1 and 3.11 have built in programs to run that stuff. Not the zip drivers though, but I recently found a package that had install disks for win 3.1, win 95 and win NT 4.0. I do have a 28.8 kbps card lying around though...

lol retro netting can be done you would need to get the tcp/ip stack to get it to work tho. I haven't tried with my old 3.1 system yet as i'm going to have to reinstall it again :P.