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Troubles installing Warp 4

Started by Night_Rider, 2008.05.22, 23:31:35

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saborion2

Talking about this:

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If only IBM had -- but that's useless. Boiled down, the real reason Crimosoft
and IBM abandoned OS/2 is greed. -- Had they stuck with OS/2, EVERYONE would
STILL be using a 10 year old OS instead of buying several incrementally
"improved" versions of Windows! Where's the profit in that?


The much more interesting and exciting scenarios we might have experienced could have been those resulting from IBM acceding the Petition by the OS/2 World Foundation to release the  Source-Codes of the OS/2 Operating System (or parts thereof). Perhaps; and, just perhaps one of these good days the OS/2 communities around the world will see this wish become a reality.

Best regards.

SAB
   

Radek

It's weird. First, as it has already been mentioned, W4 does not have LVM. Second, the strange HD behaviour. Does the disk contain some "maintenance partition"? Some HDs do, I have even heard that some system can have a part of BIOS on such "maintenance partition" (Some Compaqs, it sounds crazy, what if the HD becomes defective or gets replaced, but I am selling what I have bought).
Such "maintenance partition" can make the HD unusable with OS/2. FDISK will not understand the HD. On the other hand, the partition should get deleted long ago during FDISK attempts. I don't understand it.
Perhaps, it should be decided first whether it is the HD which is wrong or whether something else is (is also) wrong. If you can get some HD, which you can wipe out and use for OS/2 installation attempts then replace the HD and try again. The HD can be old, it can be small (2G is enough, even 500M is enough for W4) but is should be as standard as possible. For example some WD.
The inability to produce the installation diskettes is also strange. Long ago, when I had W4, I made the diskettes on a winblows machine in my work or from DOS. No problems. I also made the diskettes from DOS session in OS/2. No problem.