oviradoi Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Hello.I have succsfully made windows 3.11 boot from my cd, I still can't believe I did it, BUT...On some systems, it works fine, but on some systems, when I run win.com, it gives me the error:ERROR: PageOverCommit value in system.ini is too largeDecrease the value, or if not present, add a value that is less than 4In my system.ini file I don't have a PageOverCommit value, so I have added a PageOverCommit value of 3, and it still didn't workDoes anyone know why this is so? And can anyone help? To make windows 3.11 boot from cd I have done this:I have made a floppy disk image (.IMA) using WinImage with DOS 7.1 on it, and put it on my cdNext, I have made an UHA archive of my windows 3.1 folder and some other files(readntfs.exe, edit.com, Total Commander 16 bit version ...), and put that on my cdWhen the floppy image boots, it creates a 21 or so MB Ramdrive, and it unpacks the archive in there, and when I run win.com, windows amazingly runs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 From http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14226.html :It's a known bug of Win3.x, which only happens if your memory if MORE THAN 256MB. Set "PageOverCommit=2"(or 1) in [386enh]of SYSTEM.INI will fix this problem.Most of the results returned by Googling the error message are in Chinese... so use a translator if you can't read. Also, from translated http://www.ddvip.net/OS/dos/index2/16.htm :(For example MS-DOS 6.x) compares with old edition DOS, the MS-DOS 7.10 one important renewal is comprehensively supports the big memory. In other words, if in the system physical memory is extremely big (for instance 512MB), they also 7.10 as well as Win3.x which will move above it distinguish by MS-DOS and may perform to use. But because Win3.x itself tacitly approves value is not good to above 256MB big memory support, therefore if in the system memory surpasses 256MB under the situation when the Win3.x start possibly can appear " PageOverCommit value in SYSTEM.INI is too large. Decrease the value, or if not present, add a setting that is less than 4. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
net_user Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 windows 3.1?wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 (edited) Strange, DOS 7.x (aka Win9x) files instead of the MS-DOS 6.22 ones) i.e. NATIVE FAT32 access, should NOT be able to load the Win3.x GUI unless 3Xstart is loaded.....but maybe this applies to 3.1 and not to 3.11...Some links about the matter:http://www.oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/3XSTARThttp://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/win3x.htmhttp://www.devedia.com/dosghost/dos/ph_w31.htmhttp://mw16.2ya.com/http://www.geocities.com/politalk/http://www.geocities.com/politalk/rmdrv/win31.htmjaclaz Edited February 15, 2006 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelico_Payne Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Is it Windows 3.11 pro or 3.11 for workgroups?can u load NTFS from it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oviradoi Posted April 20, 2006 Author Share Posted April 20, 2006 (edited) I don't know wich version of windows it is.I can't load ntfs support from Windows 3.1, but I can load it in DOS before I run Windows. But it is only a read-only NTFS (you can't write anything, only copy to a FAT partition). And it doesn't support more that 8.3 name format (all the long names are screwed up). But you can use a program (Active@ NTFS Reader) to copy long file names to a FAT or FAT32 partition, but outside of Windows.If anyone wants instructions on how to accomplish putting Win31 and making it boot from CD, please PM me (I rarely look on this thread, so PM me). Edited February 18, 2009 by oviradoi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguy Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Just one question: Why?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfh3art Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Just one question: Why??I think i can awnser this one.... Just FOR FUN!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 WoW what a neat toy! That would be cool to have on a mini CD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oviradoi Posted April 24, 2006 Author Share Posted April 24, 2006 Tguy: Beacause noone has ever done it before (not that I know of) and beacause at the time I didn't want to delete anything on the XP CD, and Windows PE was too large to put them all on one CD. Windows 3.1 looked as an alternative beacause it CAN be loaded, and it is about 10-11 MB compressed (it takes about 20 secs on a slow computer like mine to decompress) and 20-21 MB uncompressed (stored, it takes ~1 sec to decompress on a slow PC like mine)Anyone want to know how to do it, reply here or send me an email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiMoNsAyS Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 will like to know if you describe the process remember: just the HowTo, this doesn't have anything to do with cracking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypressure Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 I have 3.1 running on my machine as well, but I bet it didn't take me as long. I just used parallels workstation and created a 3.1 virtual machine, and now I can play all of my favorite 3.1 card games that I used to play in college! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kof94 Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 Same here, just added it for when I get that retro feeling . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oviradoi Posted April 26, 2006 Author Share Posted April 26, 2006 OK. It'll take me some time to retrace my steps but I will make the "How-to"It has nothing to do with cracking. If you have the Windows 3.1 Kit, you'll be able to succeed.Thanx for showing interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypressure Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 kof94: what other OSes are you running w/ parallels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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