Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:27:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Travis Siegel To: Chad Fernandez cc: wilmarc AT gte DOT net, opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DR-DOS & Win 3.x problems In-Reply-To: <199806020630.CAA12807@ns1.internet1.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Chad Fernandez wrote: > >Have a problem here I just can't figure out. Since installing > >DR-DOS 7.02 I cannot open a DOS box in Windows For Workgroups 3.11. > > At least you got that far...I couldn't even install Win3.1 with DR-DOS. The > Win3.1 install program would crash. Two things here. First of all the original message (which you left out) said he was using 4dos as his shell. This has been discussed many times on this list already. You need to change the exec shell to true in the opendos.ini file. That will solve the problem of opening a dos session. And secondly, to answer your question of installing windows under dr.dos, That too was answered here, though I'm not sure the answer was adequate. They said to install dr dos after windows. No, I submit the answer is to disable emm386 first. For some reason, the emm386 that ships with opendos causes a lot of applications to bug out that don't do so under msdos. (I'm sure they're working on this problem) However, if you simply donot load the emm386.exe when you run your system for that session, your windows program will install just fine. After it's installed, you can then put the emm386 back, and things should work just fine.