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Extremely slow Warp 4.52 installation.
UberCoder:
Hi all. New member.
I'm trying to re-install Warp on a PC from early 2000. Back then it was my work development machine. I bought it from my employer when they did an IT upgrade and put WinXP on it. Now I'm trying to return it back to a Warp box.
It's a Patriot machine running a K6-2 with 288Mb of RAM and a (not original) 4Gb HDD setup with a 300Mb partition for the OS.
I've verified that the hardware all works by installing Win98 on the machine. I'm now trying to install Warp 4.52. This is not going well.
As far as I can see, the installation process is running without any errors. Its just that its running extremely slowly. For example, it seems to take around 24hours to format the HDD and to complete the 1st round of file coping from the CD to the HDD. I let it run, but after 48hrs it had yet to get to the GUI portion of the process.
It's not the file transfer that's slow, it's the whole installation process. Even with the CD out of the drive, it's slow to do anything.
I have tried with a different set of installation CDs. Same result.
I have tried it with a different HDD. Same result.
I did try copying the relevant data to the HDD and installing from there, booting from floppy disks modified to look for the data on the HDD. This failed as the HDD for some reason couldn't be accessed. I tried replacing the IBM IDE driver with the 'danis506' driver but this just caused the FDD to stop working.
Unfortunately the machine's BIOS doesn't support booting from USB.
So...I know the hardware all works. I assume the installation ISOs/CDs are good, since I've tried 2 different sets with the same results. I'm getting no errors (when booting from the CD), so what could be causing the process to run so slow?? What can I do fix it?
And don't forget that this machine (albeit with a different HDD) ran Warp 4 back in the day...so I know its possible.
Cheers & TIA
P.
Dave Yeo:
How did you partition the machine, as in what program did you use? It's really important to do all partitioning with OS/2 tools, lvm in the case of OS/2 4.52.
Also how is the HD and CD/DVD drive connected to the system? I vaguely remember problems with some setups and best to have them on separate IDE connectors, both as master IIRC.
nyao:
Hi.
Is the format HPFS?
I remember that performance dropped dramatically if it wasn't JFS.
With ArcaOS, the formatting never finishes, so I gave up even with a 2GB install partition and used JFS.
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: nyao on September 04, 2025, 05:32:00 am ---Hi.
Is the format HPFS?
I remember that performance dropped dramatically if it wasn't JFS.
With ArcaOS, the formatting never finishes, so I gave up even with a 2GB install partition and used JFS.
--- End quote ---
Warp 4.52 doesn't support booting JFS.
UberCoder:
The machine only has 1 IDE controller. The HDD is master, the CD, the slave.
The format selected was HPFS
The partitioning was done under Dos (fdisk) as the LVM tool didn't seem to work. The dialogue for select the size of a new partition didn't work. I could see it flash briefly on screen, then disappear.
I guess it could be worth going back and deleting the partition and trying again from scratch.
*UPDATE* That didn't work. I managed to successfully run through the LVM tool and create a new partition for the OS....its still running slow as a dog.
*UPDATE-2* strictly speaking, its a little faster. It managed to complete the HPFS format in about 30mins and has reached the start of the 1st file copy phase in about 50mins. However, the actual file copying seems no faster. It tool nearly 5 mins to copy the 1st file(!)
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