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Dj Koelkast:
Hi all,

I wanted to install OS/2 Warp for a long time and finally made room to do it.
I have an IBM 330 486 DX2/66 and an MWave soundcard + modem and a nice network card. That should be enough to get me going.
It has a whopping 32mb of memory.

The BIOS doesn't understand anything above 4GB, so to test I installed a 2GB CF card (I want to use this system with a small DOM eventually).
It gets recognised and it seems to work. OS/2 install works, the cdrom works (I'm installing the blue spine version, 2 boot disks and a cd-rom).
I've used the advanced setup to remove partitions (reboot) make 1 partition of 2gb (reboot) and make it installable (reboot), ok, then it installs and seems to work fine, until it needs to boot.
I just see a cursor on the top left.

When I boot from the disks again and get to the command line I see almost all files are 0b in size.
So clearly it has problems with it, is the partition of 1900mb too large maybe? Or do I need to set things differently?

I haven't really worked with OS/2 before, so all help is welcome. I do know these kind of problems exist with more old os'es, like AmigaOS.
So maybe making 4 partitions of max 500mb is the quickest solution?

Dave Yeo:
You need to upgrade IBM1S506.ADD and perhaps other stuff. The easiest way is to use updated boot floppies to install.
Start here for most all updates, http://web.archive.org/web/20060926004818/www.warpupdates.mynetcologne.de/english/site_contents.html and follow the Installation Diskettes link. Some of the links might be dead but give a name to Google.
It's also possible to update the files on your install diskettes but a little more involved if you need to.
IIRC, Warp 3 should be able to be upgraded to handling about 500 GB disks. HPFS has a 64 GB limit and I'd advise more like 60 GB's.
Edit, make sure your boot partition is at the beginning of the disk, perhaps after BootManager and do all partitioning with OS/2 tools.

Dj Koelkast:
Thanks!

I've found the files here:

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v3.0warp/english-us/warpinst/

I expected a new install disk, but it updates the "old" one, I'll be trying this in a few minutes. At least the disk updated correctly.

Dj Koelkast:
That didn't work, this is with an updated disk 1

Dj Koelkast:
I found there are installation diskette images on the cd itself, maybe it was just a mismatch between installation diskettes and the cd, because the Warpinst doesn't want to update the Diskette 1 I made.

-- edit --

Tried it, but with the same result, a flashing cursor at the 1st boot and nothing else happening.
And the updated diskettes gave me the error

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