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Setup & Installation / Troubles installing Warp 4
« on: 2008.05.22, 22:31:35 »
Hi, All!
Recently I've decided to try, what kind of system is OS/2 :)
Really, i had to install it to run old DOS program in graphics mode.
So, i took package, WARP4 and started installation.
Computer is something like 300 MHz Intel, 10 Gb hdd, CD+FDD, Etherlink III networking card.
I wrote 3 floppies, and that's where weird stuff started. Standard OS/2 image recording program didn't work, so I had to use WinImage instead. I booted up (oh, God, i have fed that computer with series of 3 floppies 50 times that day, w/o exagerating). When installation process started, it said that os/2 need at least 175 Mb and that there's no such a big partitition. But there was 2 FAT32 partititions, both greater than a Gb!
I have erased everithyng with PC-DOS FDISK and made 1 big partitition,(1st attempt) 1 500 Mb p. (2nd attempt). No result. It keeps saying "partitition too small". And it writes on the right that it's 20Gb!!!! And Non-DOS!
I tried different BIOS address settings - CHS, Large, LBA. No result. I've erased all partititions, let him to make himself as he wants. Installer said, that it created all needed partititions. Reboot. And again. There's no at least 175 Mb partitition.
So, i didn't manage to install it.
I've made floppies several times, i've changed FDD, HDD, CD-ROM. No effect.
Then, I took other distriburive, OS/2 Server 4.5 for...
It installed correctly, but, after reboot, it hanged(cpu state list or reg's appeared, with a string like "error in doscall1.dll" or something like this.
I reinstalled it again, with no network adapters (i mean, hardware present, but driver not installed). It worked correctly. 1280*1024. That's a pleasure on a 20" LCD :)
Then I installed network adapter, rebooted and it hanged again the same way :)
(those times I used integrated network adapter). After this, I've installed EtherLinkIII, but the same is happening.
Furthermore, it doesn't see my MS-DOS partititions!!! I have made some with FDISK, formatted them, they're holding info, accesible, etc, but OS/2 doesn't see them.
Partititions made with OS/2 LVM seen in DOS as Non-DOS.
What to do?
I want to install OS/2 server so much :)
And, at last, is it possible to purchase latest os/2 native release? I mean, os/2. not ecs?


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