Windows 3.1 Install Help

[TheJackal]

Im trying to install Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 75 system. Ive FDisked the drive, and gone through the entire install procedure for Windows 3.1.

It finishes the install and tells me to restart, However when I restart, it tells me that there is an "invalid system disk." I have no disk in the floppy drive. When I insert a Windows 98 Bootdisk, it tells me "The version of DOS that was used for the install of Windows 3.1 is incompatable with Windows 3.1, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to Restart"

How do I make it boot into Windows?

[edfair]

And did you do an OS install first. You've got to have an operating system to handle the I/O and file support.

[TheJackal]

It did the entire Windows 3.1 install. When it got to the end of the install it instructed me to restart, and that is when I got the error message.

[Trent Steel]

I think edfair means you need to install DOS first. Windows 3.1 is not an operating system it is mearly an graphical user interface.

[TheJackal]

How do I go about installing DOS?

[reboot]

Purchase it and install it. The last version from MS is 6.22 although for Win3.1 even DOS 5 or PCDos will work.