[plug] OS/2 Warp 4

[Len Bird]

Kai wrote:

> Sorry this is off topic (in the limited time I have between Uni and work
> I can't find an OS/2 User group.) but does anyone know why the
> version off APC Mags July edition of OS/2 Warp 4 does not want to
> install on my AMD K6-2 400 ?
>
> I have created the boot disks and that, I can boot as far as the secon
> screen that says "Please insert disk 2 and press enter".
> I do that, but about 10 or 15 second after I hit enter I get a
> "beeeeeeep" which won't stop until I reboot my machine and message
> saying
> that OS/2 could not operate my HDD. To check that this wasn't because of
> space, I repartitioned my 6 Gig Linux drive and put 2 gig of space
> for OS/2 onto it....and the installer STILL says it can't operate my
> HDD. I have looked for and downloaded some patches that are supposed
> to be for supporting large disks (above 400 Megs) but nothing's worked.
>
> Anyone got any ideas? I really wanna try OS/2 and see what it's all
> about.
> FYI: I have BeOS 5 off the same CD installed on this machine and it
> works no worries. =)
>
> /I think that you need to have a long hard look at the BIOS. Off hand I
> cannot remember precisely what I had to do to get OS/2 to work on my
> Pentium 2  450 mhz ASUS board.  However John Summerfield is the local
> champion of

of OS/2 and he will know for certain.  Another way to get round the problem
is to load up OS/2 on an old
machine  and shift the Hard Disk into the new High Speed job.  I did this,
and the improvement in performance is quite dramatic.  OS/2 ver 4 hit the
market about a week before Windoze 95, trouble was that IBM got cold feet
about the  certainty of another run in with Gates & Co. A  great pity as
OS/2 versions 3 or 4  leave Windoze for dead,


hope that helps,

Regards, Len Bird