LANtastic v4.xx Compatibility Note: OS/2 v2.0 and LANtastic
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- Classification: Multi-tasking/Windowing Environments
- Date: 8/10/92
- Engineer: JAG
- Compatibility Statement
- OS/2 2.0 provides limited compatibility for running LANtastic NOS v4.xx within a DOS compatibility session. Support for the LANtastic SERVER program is not currently provided.
- Product Overview
- OS/2 2.0 is the latest release of IBM's graphically-based operating system. It is a full 32 bit operating system that provides multi-tasking and multi-windowing, as well as compatibility with Windows 3.0 and DOS-based applications.
- Installing LANtastic with OS/2
- If you are using an Artisoft AE-2 or AE-3 adapter, it must be in forced 8-bit mode. See you adapter documentation for the appropriate jumper settings. The Artisoft AE-2 Microchannel adapter is not currently supported for use with OS/2. You can install LANtastic on a machine that runs OS/2 over either the High Performance File System (HPFS) or the DOS FAT file system. Open the "OS/2 System" folder from the desktop and select the "Command Prompts" folder. Choose a windowed or full screen DOS session from within this folder. Once the DOS session has started, you may install LANtastic in a workstation configuration as detailed in Chapter 3 of the LANtastic NOS User's Manual. After installing the LANtastic files, you must complete the following steps before running any of the LANtastic programs:
- Make a DOS boot diskette.
- A. At a machine running DOS, format a diskette with the command
FORMAT A: /S
Note: MS-DOS 5.0 was used during in-house testing. - B. Create a CONFIG.SYS file on the boot diskette. It must contain the following statements:
DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS
FILES=50
BUFFERS=30
LASTDRIVE=Z - C. Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the boot diskette and include these lines:
PATH=C:\LANTASTI; C:\DOS;C:\
C:
STARTNET - D. Copy the file FSFILTER.SYS to the boot diskette from the C:\OS2\MDOS directory on the OS/2 machine. The complete list of files that must be on the boot diskette is:
COMMAND.COM
AUTOEXEC.BAT
CONFIG.SYS
FSFILTER.SYS
- A. At a machine running DOS, format a diskette with the command
- Create a boot image of the boot diskette:
- A. On the OS/2 PC, place the boot diskette in the appropriate drive, open a DOS or OS/2 window and type the command:
VMDISK A: C:\DOS\DOS_BOOT.IMG
If you installed OS/2 using and HPFS partition, you may have to create the C:\DOS directory if it does not exist and install the desired DOS version in it. See the OS/2 Master Help Index for details on using the VMDISK command.
- A. On the OS/2 PC, place the boot diskette in the appropriate drive, open a DOS or OS/2 window and type the command:
- Create the "Specific Version boot" DOS session icon:
- A. In the "Command Prompts" folder position the mouse cursor over the "DOS Window" icon and press the right mouse button.
- B. Select the Copy option from the menu that appears, then type "DOS Boot Image" or another description in the "New Name" field.
- C. Press the Copy button to create the new icon.
- D. Click the right mouse button on the new icon and then click on the right-pointing arrow button that appears next to the "Open" selection.
- E. Choose the "Settings" selection from that list and ensure that the "Path and file name" field contains an asterisk (*).
- F. Select the "Session" page and click on the "DOS Settings" button. Choose the DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE selection from the "Settings" list and type the following in the "Value" field:
C:\DOS\DOS_BOOT.IMG - G. Then click on the "Save" button and this will place you back on the Settings page.
- H. Double-click on the title bar icon (the button with a graphic on it in the upper left corner of the window) to exit back to the system folder.
- I. Double-clicking on the DOS Boot Image icon will now bring up a DOS window and start LANtastic.
- Use LANtastic from within the DOS session just as you would at a DOS-based workstation. Note that disk redirections made within the LANtastic session will only be accessible from within that session and not from anywhere else in OS/2 or other DOS windows.
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