drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) (03/08/91)
I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 under two different envi- ronments, namely 1) SCO Xenix System V/386 2.3.2 with VP/ix 1.01; 2) Open Desktop 1.0 (SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 with DOS Merge). Up to date, I have had very little success. Any help would be greatly appreciated. As I don't yet receive sco.opendesktop, please post your replies to comp.unix.xenix.sco or mail them to my Internet address. Thanks a lot. -- Jean-Jacques Drolet | Snail: 2631 boul. Liegeois, Sainte-Foy National Optics Institute | Quebec, Canada, G1W 1Z5 Phone: +1 418 657 7006 | Internet: drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG Home phone: +1 418 651 3796 | UUCP: uunet!altitude!drolet!drolet
wul@sco.COM (Wu Liu) (03/11/91)
/--drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) said... | I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 under two different envi- | ronments, namely | | 1) SCO Xenix System V/386 2.3.2 with VP/ix 1.01; | 2) Open Desktop 1.0 (SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 with DOS Merge). | | Up to date, I have had very little success. Any help would be | greatly appreciated. As I don't yet receive sco.opendesktop, please | post your replies to comp.unix.xenix.sco or mail them to my | Internet address. Thanks a lot. \-- Windows 3.0 does not work, even when run in real mode, under Open Desktop 1.0. It does work under the version of Merge included with Open Desktop 1.1. I'm not familiar with VP/ix myself; I know that there was work done to it to support Windows 3.0, but I'm not sure which release that is. Now, if Windows 3.0 had been a well- behaved DOS app... :-)
karl@robot.in-berlin.de (Karl-P. Huestegge) (03/14/91)
drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) writes: >I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 under two different envi- >ronments, namely >1) SCO Xenix System V/386 2.3.2 with VP/ix 1.01; >2) Open Desktop 1.0 (SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 with DOS Merge). >Up to date, I have had very little success. Quite difficult, because windows tries to get into protected mode. I thought it wasn't possible at all, but.. (surprise,surprise). SCO has a Support Diskette called 'unx268'. It's for SCO UNIX 3.2 and SCO VP/ix 1.2. Excerpt from the enclosed letter: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The enclosed Support Level Supplement (SLS) unx268 supplies support for the Microsoft Windows 3.0 product running under SCO VP/ix 1.2 on the SCO UNIX Operating System Release 3.2. This will replace the locore.o file in the /etc/conf/pack.d/kernel directory. It will also rebuild and relink the kernel. This must be installed in system maintenance mode. This will only install on a SCO Unix Operating System release 3.2.0 or greater running the SCO VP/ix release 1.2.0. This will not install on SCO MPX or the SCO 286 or 386 Xenix Operating System. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's available per uucp from sosco. -- Karl-Peter Huestegge karl@robot.in-berlin.de Berlin Friedenau (..unido!fub!geminix!robot!karl) derzeit: ..unido!fub!tmbmbx!scuzzy!robot!karl)
daveh@marob.uucp (Dave Hammond) (03/14/91)
In article <9103091053.aa28114@xenitec.on.ca> writes: >I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 under two different envi- >ronments, namely > >1) SCO Xenix System V/386 2.3.2 with VP/ix 1.01; >2) Open Desktop 1.0 (SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 with DOS Merge). According to SCO support, MS-Windows 3.0 can not work under VP/IX since it requires 286 or 386 protected mode and VP/IX provides only virtual 8086 emulation. -- Dave Hammond daveh@marob.uucp uunet!rutgers!phri!marob!daveh
drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG (Jean-Jacques Drolet) (03/18/91)
In <27DE7604.38C7@marob.uucp> daveh@marob.uucp (Dave Hammond) writes: >In article <9103091053.aa28114@xenitec.on.ca> writes: >>I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 under two different envi- >>ronments, namely >> >>1) SCO Xenix System V/386 2.3.2 with VP/ix 1.01; >>2) Open Desktop 1.0 (SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 with DOS Merge). >According to SCO support, MS-Windows 3.0 can not work under VP/IX since >it requires 286 or 386 protected mode and VP/IX provides only virtual >8086 emulation. That's true. Out of the box, Windows 3.0 can't run under VP/ix. However, if you patch the code that determines on which processor Windows is running so that Windows believes it is running on a 8086, you can run Windows under both VP/ix and DOS Merge (SCO Open Desktop). I have the patch here; anybody interested can write to me. If there is sufficient interest, I will post it. >-- >Dave Hammond >daveh@marob.uucp >uunet!rutgers!phri!marob!daveh -- Jean-Jacques Drolet | Snail: 2631 boul. Liegeois, Sainte-Foy National Optics Institute | Quebec, Canada, G1W 1Z5 Phone: +1 418 657 7006 | Internet: drolet@drolet.CAM.ORG Home phone: +1 418 651 3796 | UUCP: uunet!altitude!drolet!drolet
paulz@sco.COM (W. Paul Zola) (03/23/91)
In article <27DE7604.38C7@marob.uucp> daveh@marob.uucp (Dave Hammond) writes: }In article <9103091053.aa28114@xenitec.on.ca> writes: }>I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 under two different envi- }>ronments, namely }> }>1) SCO Xenix System V/386 2.3.2 with VP/ix 1.01; }>2) Open Desktop 1.0 (SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 with DOS Merge). } }According to SCO support, MS-Windows 3.0 can not work under VP/IX since }it requires 286 or 386 protected mode and VP/IX provides only virtual }8086 emulation. } }-- }Dave Hammond }daveh@marob.uucp }uunet!rutgers!phri!marob!daveh This is not correct. Microsoft Windows 3.0 will run *in real mode only* on SCO UNIX if you: (1) are running SCO VP/ix 1.2.0 and (2) have installed Support Level Supplement (SLS) unx268. SLS unx268 won't install on SCO MPX or on the SCO 286 or 386 XENIX Operating Systems. MS-Windows 3.0 won't run _in protected mode_ under VP/ix, in much the same manner as it won't run in protected mode on a 8086-based machine. SLS unx268 simply makes sure that Windows "thinks" its installing on an 8086-based machine, and Windows takes care of the rest. - Paul Zola Software Support Engineer paulz@sco.COM Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. - Emily Saliers DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, and not for SCO.