(Tutorial) Windows/386 2.x in DOSBox

[DiskingRound]

This was already discussed here, but I believe making a tutorial would make it easier to find.
By default, Windows/386 2.x will crash during start up due to an unsupported DOS version.
Here's how to fix it:
1. Take your Windows/386 2.x disk images or floppies and dump all their contents to a folder. We'll name it a.
2. Make a new folder named c.
3. Mount the a folder as the a drive in DOSBox, and mount the c folder as the c drive in DOSBox.
4. Switch to the a drive, and run setup.
5. Once finished set the version using the ver set command to 3 30.
6. There is no 6. You are done! Now have fun with your Windows/386 2.x installation! Run win86.
Note: win386 does not work, shows HMA error. If anyone gets it working, post it here and I will add it to this post.
Thanks, and hope this guide is useful

[TheWindowsXPGuy]

Running win86.com makes it run in Real Mode, just like Windows 1.x and 2.03. Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of specifically installing the 386 version of Windows 2?

[domantasrackovas]

When I installed Win386 2.x using VPC 2007, it also gave me an error when running win386, and I had to run win86. :/

[computebrute]

Thank you! Very useful guide.

[TheCollector1988]

You can use DOSBox-x to mount a floppy image with MS-DOS 3.3x (or PC-DOS 3.30 as well) to install Windows/386 2.x (from 2.01 to 2.11) on a hard disk image and, then, mount it on the emulator (but knowing its cylinder size as here: -size 512,63,16,X <- where X is the cylinder size, through the imgmount command).
Mounting the hard disk image requires the "boot" command with either "-l c" or the name of the hard disk image (i.e.: vhd.img). This solves the Protected Mode problem (win386.exe).

[snoopy6489]

Thanks You. only if i could figure out bos box.