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Messages - tgp1994

#1
Thanks for the update, ivan.

I was just getting UpdCD a try, I haven't gotten very far into the process though.

Were these disk images also updated by UpdCD?
#2
That's odd, because I recall being able to write directories and folders to it. Is it the possible that the installer at some point sees this unformatted space, formats it, then writes its temporary files to this new space?

I haven't seen the message "the system will be rebooted in xxx seconds", FDISK only prompts me to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete after it says that the drive letters have changed. Yup, I press F3 to save and exit fdisk. And yes. At least, I've created the boot manager partition, set it to startable, then I made an unformatted partition, and it is bootable.

FYI this is what I've done by manually starting fdisk.com from the second installation floppy.
#3
Thanks Ivan,

Quote from: ivan on 2012.05.30, 00:52:02
First DON'T use easy install, you don't get any options.  You should use advanced install then fdisk will give you the necessary options.

I've been hearing a lot about this easy / advanced install, but sadly, I have yet to see this screen. I used fdisk by finding it in the CDROM (I think) after I was dropped to the prompt.

Quote from: ivan on 2012.05.30, 00:52:02
Second, give yourself a second disk of a couple of GB to put programs on otherwise you will run out of space on the boot partition.

If I can even get the installer to put data on there :P

Quote from: ivan on 2012.05.30, 00:52:02
Just in case the above does not get you going I will use a clients windows computer we have in for upgrading to set up a VM and install Warp 4 on it just to see what other pitfalls you might encounter.  It is so long since I installed OS/2 using floppies I'll have to relearn what to do - we use a bootable CD updated to the latest fixpacks for reinstalls now.

Thank you, I would really appreciate that. You didn't happen to use UpdCD, did you? I was going to try and update my installation cd in an attempt to see if that would fix any of my issues, although I don't really see how one can get the updcd environment onto a hard disk when all you have to boot from is floppies. I mean, the updcd folder is larger than a floppy, so how are you expected to make it available to the maintenance disks that it makes?
#4
Quote from: RobertM on 2012.05.30, 00:25:59
Four things:
(1) the vHDD should not be greater than 500GB
(2) the boot partition cannot be greater than 64GB
(3) regardless of the 64GB limit, an HPFS partition shouldnt exceed 50ish GB
(4) if installing to FAT (please dont), the partitio :Dn must be 2GB or less and reside at the beginning of the vHDD's free space.

R


Ah, another thing I forgot to mention, sorry! The hard drive its self is no larger than 512MB, so I should be falling under those requirements. I'm not sure how to specify a partition type when using FDISK, it only seems to let me do FAT.
#5
Quote from: Radek on 2012.05.29, 07:24:17
One of the problems might be the v. 187 "dani" driver. Versions 185 and 187 are intended for eCS, Warp is too old for them. Try v. 170 with v. 038 ATAPI driver. They should work with OS/2 W4. Also, make sure that the CONFIG.SYS on your diskette contains SET COPYFROMFLOPPY = 1.

Oh, figures.

I was able to find and patch in the S560 driver ok, but I found it impossible to find the 038 version of the atapi driver. I downloaded v.039 instead, hopefully that won't be much different. I'll have my current CONFIG.SYS file attached, if that helps. copyfromfloppy should be set.

Booting up with the new set of drivers still results in the same error for me.

Quote from: RobertM on 2012.05.29, 17:36:21
What version of Virtualbox, what host OS, what other config or virtual BIOS settings (ie: DON'T choose "OS/2" for any memory settings) and so on might also be helpful so we can help you.

Sorry about that, here's some more information. I'm running Virtualbox version 4.1.16 on Windows Vista Ultimate SP2, 64 bit. No special features are set in the system config, except for VT-x/AMD-V and Nested Paging being enabled. Virtualbox doesn't seem to have a virtual bios (that we can configure at least). I hope that helps you help me :)
#6
Hi everyone,

For a little background, I seem to have missed a golden age of computing. I would like to at least experience the operating system side of that golden age by trying out OS/2. Boy, am I getting the full tour! :P

I'll start off by saying that I'm trying to install Warp 4 into a virtualbox machine. I've tried posting in their forums, although I'm told that there aren't enough OS/2 pros there to help with the issue(s), so I'm hoping that my issues are generic enough that they don't just apply to virtualbox.

I am able to boot all the way up the second (third?) installation diskette. After pressing enter to continue past the copyright/operating system information, I'm presented with an error looking like this:

OS/2 Warp 4 System Installatio

SYS0318: Message file OSO001.MSG cannot be found for message    3175.


After pressing enter to end this program, my screen turns red, with the following error message:

ERROR: SYSINST2.EXE failed to return the target drive.

F3=Command Prompt


I'm not exactly sure *what* the target drive is here. All I know is that I was able to format my C: drive from the installation environment, and I'm able to copy files to it manually, so it seems like the drive is responding normally.

In case it was a driver issue, I installed Steven's danis506r187 drivers, along with his ATAPI v. 0.4.0 filter driver, which doesn't seem to fix my issue.

I have 64MB of ram allocated to this machine, and the IDE controller is emulated as PIIX3.

If anyone could help, that would be great.