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the5thQ:
My Insurance Agent gave up a G3, dual booted to Windows/os 8...since it was a present I thought of ways to hide stuff and use a VM ware type of thing and then a sandbox; but before too long the whole box went Poof! On eBay there are many G4's now being sold for around $300USD/per system which I thought might work as a platform for a WARP4 Server with the OSX Lion version of MAC already factory installed. Has anyone done this-running a stable system? [...but NOT w/Windows like I did before... which became a catastrophe;;;( 8) ]
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Jon, welcome to the forums.
I'm not sure if I complete understand what you want to do. Dual Boot Warp Server 4 on a Power Mac G3, or G4 can not be possible because it uses a PowerPC processor so OS/2 will not boot there. So I think that running OS/2 Warp on the G3/G4 as Virtual Machine can be possible. I think that the latest Mac OS X that can run on a G4 is 10.5.8, but I don't know which virtual machine software is available for it. I think that on a PowerPC processor you will need an x86 emulator like Bochs to run OS/2.
Regards
ak120:
Should be no problem with Virtual PC. But which version - it reallly depends on processor and operating system.
the5thQ:
I know this is a 'retired' thread but I'n at it again...as I have read posts related to this issue...my latest OS2 quest has been this: trying to find a boot cd that will wipe out all the partitions on my hard drive; I am not using SATA/eSATA, just the old drive from a Dell which I pulled out of the tin worm yard...I put this drive and mobo into a stripped down Aptiva Tower and it all fits, I upgraded the Power Supply using a P4 power block and the rest seemed simple. There are plenty of slots on the mobo for what I intend to do and the early type AGP card works by default and have no video problems at all...the problem is however, I remove all the stuff of the HDD and try installing OS2 V4 from scratch. Mind you this is a fresh out of the box installation, nothing used, not even the floppies. Install goes well until I reboot and then I get the OS2 info mssg. blinking on the screen and everything stops, NO OS on the drive. So I assume that I need to remove all partitions and start a raw install without traces of NT -ntfs or 'mac' file system. I have totally given up on using a virtual machine from windows or mac into an OS/2 operating system shell so now I would need just the Warp4 to run anew...anyone out there who can recommend a fresh install/ preboot manager so I can get the right operating system partition addressable by the OS Warp4 installer> cornfused yet:? I am. :) :)
Per E. Johannessen:
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