Boot the Computer, let the DDO (if equipped) prompt to press a key to boot from Floppy, press that key, insert the MS-DOS 6.22 install Disk 1, and boot from it.Once you get beyond the Pentium 166 you start to find that getting drivers that work in Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and DOS are quite scarce as that generation and over is pretty much designed to run Windows 95 or later. The newest card with drivers from Creative is a SoundBlaster AWE64, and a lot of modern LAN cards still have DOS/Windows NDIS Drivers. The newest cards I've seen that support WFW are the ATI Rage II PCI 3D Accelerators. The Pentium 60/66 is crippled by a bad FPU, terrible thermals, and overall poor design, while the 5x86 133 is still a true 486 running at 4x the bus speed. WFW came around at a time when the 486 was king. The reason I stop at the Pentium 60/66 or Am5x86 133 is wasted potential. a 10/100/gigabit PCI LAN card with appropriate WFW NDIS Drivers VGA for base functionality, Floppy Drive to install software, and an Ethernet card to connect to the LAN. DOS takes up around 3MB, Windows 8MB, leaving about 10MB for a minimal software setup. Anything under 4MB is vbery slow and pokey. Windows For Workgroups requires a 386 for the network stack to work properly.
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