How to: Install Windows 3.1 on your iPhone
Want to run Windows 3.1 on your iPhone? I don’t, but the fact you can is pretty neat, eh? But anyway, if you want to do this pretty neat hack, here’s how to.
- Grab greenpois0n or limera1n to jailbreak your iPhone if you haven’t already.
- Add the Cydia source: http://www.litchie.net/cydia to your list of sources, under the “Manage” tab within Cydia.
- Locate and install DosPad Beta (1.92 is the latest).
- Copy the Windows installation files over to your iPhone and place them in a folder named “winsetup” on /var/mobile/.
- Create an additional folder named “w31” on /var/mobile/ (this is where Windows will be installed).
- Open up DosPad and typ “mount –u c” (which will unmount your C drive).
- Then type “mount c ~/w31” (which mounts your C drive to that empty folder we created earlier).
- Do that again, this time for the A drive, by typing “mount a ~/winsetup” — this mounts all of those loose installation files in the winsetup folder to the A drive, as if you had the installation disks inserted into your virtual floppy drive.
- Type “a:” to change the directory to the A drive.
- Then type “setup” and your installation of Windows 3.1 should begin!
- Run through the installation, which takes about 15 minutes. When it’s finished, you’ll be asked to reboot your machine.
- Exit DosPad and clear it from your Multitask bar.
- Relaunch it and type “mount –u c”, “mount c ~/w31”, “c:” and “cd WINDOWS”.
- Type a simple and victorious “win” and hit enter. Welcome to Windows 3.1.