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Problem installing Windows 3.1 with DR-DOS 6!

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From: Jaakko Kokko
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:26
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I am having compatibility problems with DR-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1,
and I hope another DR-DOS user out there could help me.

I have DR-DOS 6.0 (the upgraded version) installed in my 486-33 with
a SuperStor compressed hard disk partition. When I tried to install
Windows 3.1 on the uncompressed partition, the install program threw
me out at the end of the second diskette, with the following message:

  Standard Mode:  Fault in MS-DOS Extender.
EC=0000 CS=005B IP=0975 AX=0000 BX=0008 CX=0404 DX=005A
SI=3D59 DI=0930 BP=0882 DS=02E7 ES=02DF SS=027F SP=01F2

I stripped my config.sys and autoexec.bat to bare minimum, removing
all TSR:s, etc. so that there really shouldn't have been problems 
there.  

When I bypassed the install program by simply copying the Windows files
from another computer, it worked fine, except that when I tried to 
force Windows into standard mode using the /2 option, I was thrown out
again with the above message.  

So, the problem seems to be getting Windows 3.1 to work in standard mode,
so that the install program would not abort.  I tried to select
compatibility with Windows in standard mode from the DR-DOS Setup program
but had no success.

If somebody else has had similar problems, please tell me how you solved them.

Thanks,

Jaakko
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From: jko@phoenix.oulu.fi (Jaakko Kokko)
Subject: Problem installing Windows 3.1 with DR-DOS 6!
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:26:06 GMT
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