Windows/286 2.1 on a Bernoulli

[Mike Ciaraldi]

I am trying to help a friend install Microsoft Windows/286
version 2.1 on an AT&T 6300 Plus (AT-compatible)
with a 20 megabyte Bernoulli Box.  He currently
has Windows 2.0 running.

The only way to install Windows/286 2.1 is supposed to be
by running the INSTALL program.  You can't just copy the
files from the floppies, or so the manual implies.

When we try to install, the INSTALL program tells us that
it can only install onto a hard disk, we don't have one,
and so it is quitting.  Of course, the Bernoulli is supposed
to act like a hard disk once its driver is loaded (which it is).

We called Microsoft and they said they are looking into this,
but don't have a solution.
So, we are considering the following:
Install Windows/286 on another machine with a real hard disk.
Observe what directories are created and where the files go.
Dump the files onto a floppy.
Load them onto the Bernoulli on the other machine.
Erase from the first machine (since it would be illegal
to run it on two machines at the same time).

Does anyone know if this will work?
INSTALL is supposed to figure out how your hardware is set up;
can we move the files to a different computer
without a problem, even though the hardware is different?
Maybe we can just change the WIN.INI file.

If anyone has successfully installed Windows 2.1 and has some insights
on this, we'd love to know.

Mike Ciaraldi
University of Rochester
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ARPA:  ciaraldi at cs.rochester.edu