CD-ROM drive unsupported or remote on network

Last update: 6th November 1995

Symptoms
No CD-ROM device detected.

Hardware
Machines with an unsupported CD-ROM drive, for example a really new or a very old one. Or you have a CD-ROM on the network, but not on the machine you wish to install OS/2 on.

Problem
No driver for CD-ROM device or no CD-ROM drive available in a machine connected to the network.

Procedure
First make sure your CD-ROM drive is really unsupported. For instance, there are drivers for [IDE CD-ROM drives] and even for oddball drives like the [Optics Storage Dolphin AT-800].

Follow these steps to trick OS/2 into installing from the hard disk.


 * 1) Boot DOS in a configuration where you can access the CD-ROM drive. Let's assume G: is the drive letter of your (networked) CD-ROM. Change this in the following to reflect your situation.
 * 2) Locate a partition with ~45MB of free space. We'll assume this is drive letter D:. This should not be the partition to which you plan to install OS/2 Warp, unless there will be enough space left to complete the installation.
 * 3) From the root of drive D: MD os2image     XCOPY G:\os2image os2image /s     COPY G:\os2se20.src D:\
 * 4) Insert (a backup of) Diskette 1.
 * 5) Edit A:\config.sys
 * 6) Modify the SET CDINST line to read     SET CDINST=D:\OS2IMAGE\DISK_1\SYSINST2.EXE
 * 7) Save the file. Insert Installation Diskette #0. Reboot and Warp your machine!