[plug] OS/2 Warp 4

[Kai]

Yes, it's a pity Gates & Crash Co used those sorts of business practices
against Be and other OS's and private software companies.
If they didn't, we would probably see software that is 10 times as
innovative than what we have now....

Pity.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Bird" <lenbird at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] OS/2 Warp 4


> 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
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