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install warp 4 with windows xp

Started by aswth, 2008.08.06, 08:53:34

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aswth

Sirs,
can anyone plz help me

i need the complete and correct steps to install os2 warp 4 on HDD 120 GB IDE and windows XP on the same HDD and make dual boot system.

Which system should be installed first and how i make dual boot? what are the correct steps?

Thanks in advance

saborion2

Hi aswth,

Re:

Quote from: aswth on 2008.08.06, 08:53:34
Sirs,
can anyone plz help me

i need the complete and correct steps to install os2 warp 4 on HDD 120 GB IDE and windows XP on the same HDD and make dual boot system.

Which system should be installed first and how i make dual boot? what are the correct steps?

Thanks in advance


As far as I can remember you may/would need to install OS/2 Warp 4 first as this is the package that comes with Dual Boot Manager (after its creation) the other partitions can be created and Windows 98 can be installed. (not quite sure about XP as I have never attempted same) Once the OS and System Hardware compatibility issues are ironed out I think that it will be the same for XP. This is all I can remember for now but I am quite sure that I have read somewhere where it is quite possible to run OS/2 Warp 4 and Windows XP in a Dual Boot setting.

Okay, here is a link that I have just Googled up that I think that you can follow to obtain some information on what you are looking for/to do:

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Dual Boot eComStation 1.2 / OS/2 Warp 4.52 and Windows XP with eCS Boot Manager

http://www.os2world.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=4902


Good luck.

SAB

Radek

Step by step directions - (a) if you can start from an empty HD (without already having XP on the disk) and if the directions will work for XP  ;D  I have installed winblows 2003 and eCS on the same HD. Let us hope that if it worked for winblows 2003, it will work for XP as well.
(1) Delete all pratitions from the HD. Winblows pratitions do not create a correct partition info in MBR. Result: the eCS FDISK will refuse cooperating if it finds such partitions on your HD. Deleting the partitons could be a problem - again, bad MBR info. Tested ways: (a) DOS5 FDISK form diskette and (b) Winblows 98 CD. Start winblows 98 from the CD. If will fail immediately because it will not recognize your hardware but you will end on the promt with access to your CD. Start FDISK from the root of your CD and it is able to to wipe out the partitions with bad MBR info as well.
(2) Start from eCS CD and create a partition for your XP. Make the partition installable and startable so that FDISK will not complain when you quit it. Switch to XP CD, quit FDISK and reboot (by means of ctrl-alt-del, we need a partition with correct MBR info, we are not about to continue installation of eCS).
Now you have a single partition on your HD prepared for your XP. The fact that the partition is the only one on your HD is important: XP fouls partitions which it was not said to touch. You command XP "install here", and XP will write on other partitions as well  :-\  If you have installed something on these partitions, you are losing it. Now, XP cannot do that, there is only one partition on your HD.
(3) Install XP. Tell XP to install on the partition created in (2). Install service packs (I don't know whether you need them but winblows 2003 needed SP3 or so - otherwise, winblows wiped out boot manager or network didn't work).
(4) Back to eCS. Boot from eCS CD. The MBR info is now okay so that you will pass through FDISK. Create a boot manager partition, create a system partition for eCS, install boot manager, add both XP and the eCS partition to the boot manager menu (all this is done from FDISK). Format, install.
(5) Do all partition management from eCS. After having installed, create data partitions both for XP and eCS. Next time you will start XP, format data partitions for XP (seems to be safe). At any rate, forget XP hard disk manager! Otherwise, you are risking that XP will foul your partitions again!
(6) Now, you have (you should have) boot manager and both XP and eCS in it. Both the operating system and XP should start.

aswth


special thanks for saborions2 and Radek for your efforts and your kind reply i am trying the detailed steps of Radek and i will refer back with result


saborion2

Hi aswth,

Re:

Quote from: aswth on 2008.08.10, 11:34:53

special thanks for saborions2 and Radek for your efforts and your kind reply i am trying the detailed steps of Radek and i will refer back with result



You are most welcome. BTW, what is the specific version of OS/2 Warp 4 that you wish to install? I am quite sure that you are aware that an upgraded 4.52 Version (exists) is available; and, if you or anyone else on this forum know where/how I can obtain a copy of OS/2 Warp 4.52 CD kindly let me know.

Thanks.

SAB

RobertM

Quote from: saborion2 on 2008.08.10, 22:49:22
I am quite sure that you are aware that an upgraded 4.52 Version (exists) is available; and, if you or anyone else on this forum know where/how I can obtain a copy of OS/2 Warp 4.52 CD kindly let me know.

Thanks.

SAB


You can buy it from Serenity Systems (the Server Pack), or directly from IBM with a little work. Either that, or search eBay.

Which version in particular? OS/2 Warp Client v4.52 only came with OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business Convenience Pack v4.52 - and Warp Client v4.52PF came with the similar v4.52PF version of WSeB CP.

And what particular aspect of it do you need that does not come with eCS (which is based off v4.52PF)?

Rob


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saborion2

Hi RobertM,

Re:

QuoteWhich version in particular? OS/2 Warp Client v4.52 only came with OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business Convenience Pack v4.52 - and Warp Client v4.52PF came with the similar v4.52PF version of WSeB CP.

And what particular aspect of it do you need that does not come with eCS (which is based off v4.52PF)?

We would be deploying on the most "recently" updated (available)  version of "OS/2 Warp Client" and "Warp Server for e-Business" and hopefully engage IBM (re: Response Letter to OS/2 World Foundation) with regards to the following:

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We would like to ask you to encourage any customers who are still planning their migrations or who have other technical requirements to contact their IBM representative to discuss how these assets and services could be leveraged.


and would be forwarding an off line confidential message to you.

Thank you.

Regards.

SAB