OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
Is anyone interested in a guide for creating an OS/2 2.1 Installation CD-ROM?
Dave Yeo:
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--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on December 18, 2023, 01:35:36 am ---Somewhere I have a CD of OS/2 2.11, actually it came with a floppy that installed some WinOS2 fix IIRC that made it 2.11. IBM was giving these out around 1994 when Warp was released. At the time I never did get it installed due to not knowing how to add IDE cdrom support, so directions for those who don't know would be a good idea.
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There has been a German OS/2 2.11 CD-ROM which needed if I rember right two floppy disks (1,44) for starting an installing. I think it has been part of a computer magazin. I guess I could find these CD-ROM in my cellar if digging through the huge pile of old software CDs.
Mike
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Yes this one, you were supposed to create the boot floppies from the CD. I assume it was the latest 2.11 as IBM was giving it away in 1994. Filled out a coupon in a magazine and they mailed it to me, card board folder containing the CD and a floppy with the floppy labeled something about a WinOS2 fix.
I tried installing it but with no IDE CD driver and a lack of knowledge... I think I lost the floppy but still have the CD somewhere.
Even Warp V3, when I installed it, probably the 1st release, didn't install the IDE CD support, when I acquired a CDROM, I had to use selective install to install the drivers. That release also didn't have PPP, just SLIP where you needed to script the login to the ISP. At least at the time IBM had a good BB to dial in to and download fixes etc. Still remember the number, 604-664-6464 which is easy to remember.
RTAN:
I think the WinOS2 fix is so that you can run either Windows 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on OS/2 2.11 without needing to upgrade to OS/2 Warp (which supports Win311 and WfW311 natively). I have the same fix downloaded as a zip file but I've never gone to the effort of actually installing it on any of my OS/2 2.11 systems.
I'm very happy to be corrected but my understanding of the fix is that, despite what it says in the README, it doesn't actually patch OS/2 2.11 to work with Win3.11. It actually applies some corrective code to WinOS2-3.11 to essentially downgrade it back to WinOS2-3.1.
And speaking of OS/2 2.11 on CD-ROM - I have a couple of boxed copies of OS/2 2.11 on floppy disk but have been trying to track down a CD-ROM variation for some time now. Even though I made my own version by way of the massively over-complicated text file I uploaded, I would still like a genuine one for posterity's sake. So if anyone is interested in parting ways with OS/2 2.11 on CD-ROM, even if it's just that CD-in-a-cardboard-sleeve version, I'd be keen to hear from you. I'll make a similar post in the Marketplace section as well.
Best,
Richard.
Dave Yeo:
You may be right about patching Win3.11 as I do have a vague memory that it was for Win3.11, which was a minor update to 3.1. Of course Windows for Workgroups was a much larger upgrade with various 32 bit drivers and would have needed more work to use under OS/2.
If I find my copy of OS/2 2.11, you can have it. Big if to finding it and I'm pretty sure the floppy is lost. It came in a card board case.
I also had an OEM release of OS/2 2.1 at one time that I did install and for the hell of it, for a while had it on my Warp V4 system. I'll zip it up. Goes in \OS2\INSTALL and my config.sys had this close to the top,
--- Code: ---DEVICE=E:\OS2\INSTALL\PRELOAD\PREL_IMG.SYS E:\OS2\INSTALL\PRELOAD\WELCOME.RGB 5
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Adjust drive letter as needed. Can't remember much else, might have been a tutorial.
RTAN:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on August 01, 2025, 01:24:56 am ---I also had an OEM release of OS/2 2.1 at one time that I did install and for the hell of it, for a while had it on my Warp V4 system. I'll zip it up. Goes in \OS2\INSTALL and my config.sys had this close to the top,
--- Code: ---DEVICE=E:\OS2\INSTALL\PRELOAD\PREL_IMG.SYS E:\OS2\INSTALL\PRELOAD\WELCOME.RGB 5
--- End code ---
Adjust drive letter as needed. Can't remember much else, might have been a tutorial.
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Thanks very much Dave, I'll install that and see what it is!
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