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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: Martin Iturbide on January 10, 2014, 03:39:13 pm

Title: Smaller OS/2 booting
Post by: Martin Iturbide on January 10, 2014, 03:39:13 pm
I remembered that sometime ago I tried see what can be the smaller OS/2 implementation and try to see which are OS/2's vitals files, just for fun.

So, what I did, I installed OS/2 Warp 4.52 on a Virtual Machine and installed it without anything.

After that I tried to delete all the files possible with the objective that OS/2 will only boot and give the me a WPS environment. With Mouse and Keyboard working and the basic WPS (e.exe, warpcenter and cdrom, floppy support was kept for sentimental reasons)

Sure, maybe this version of OS/2 it is not usable, no TCP/IP, no MMOS2, nothing interesting on it, nada...., but it was only an exercise to see which was the vital files of the system.  This VM would no even support a  reboot since the check disk stuff is not there.

Later I tried to see which files already had some open source replacement or can be easily replaced, and marked them with green, according to my knowledge.

Look at my spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmE-UP8l9avgdEJrNWJmOW9kTE9KcTE4S240cGNWWUE&usp=sharing).

If you know any other open source replacement to this files/components please let me know.