my system consists of 4 hard drives 1. part1-1st primary with win 95 fat 32 part2- 2nd prim win 3.0 & 3.11 fat 16 part 3 3rd prim win me fat 32 extended parts os2 warp logical part using its native file structure (not installed yet) log2 nt 4.o on fat 16 log3 win 2000 on fat 16 log 4 linux mandrake on ext2 log 5 linux redhat on ext 2 2nd hard drive 1st prim win 98 on fat 32 2nd prim storage on fat 32(holds files for qnx and beos5 for my win 95 part 3rd prim= extended log 1 corel linux on ext2 log2 caldera linux on ext2 log3 sunse linux on ext2 log 4 windows whistler on fat 16 (had a hell of a time getting direct draw to work so i could use win exploder so watch out for any warnings before you try whistler) log 5 slack ware ext2 log 6 unix log 7 open bsd hard drive 3 prim 1 (fat 16 houses emulator running my mac 8.5 and rom) the rest of my partitions on hard drive 3 and 4 consist of various storage and swap partitions boot menu as follows win 95 houses my boot magic wich has all linux entries and windows persoonal edition entries ( 98 me 3x 95) IF I SELECT 95 2000 AND WHISTLER MENU POPS UP AFTER THIS MENU IF I CONTINUE TO WIN 95 MY QNX MENU POPS UP IF I SELECT WIN 3X THIS BRINGS UP THE NT AND 3X OPTION. WIN 95 HOUSES POWERQUEST PART MAG 5.0 2000 HOUSES VERSION 6.0 FOR PARTITION COPY MODE I MIGHT HAVE FOOLED SOME OF YOU THAT I HAVE A CLUE BUT I DONT THIS TOOK A LOT OF BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS TO MANAGE AND A HECK OF A LOT OF MAINT MY QUESTION IS A SIMPLE AND BASIC ONE (IVE NEVER USED OR INSTALLED OS2 WARP 4.0 BEFORE OR FOR THAT MANNY ANY VERSION OF OS2 SO WHEN FDISK COMES UP MY ONLY OPTION AVAIL IS DELETE AND I DONT RECOGNIZE THE PART TABLES ITS PULLING UP THEY LOOK ALL WRONG HELP ME TO INSTALL OS2 ON THIS SYSTEM PLEASE THIS AND SOLARIS ARE THE ONLY 2 I HAVE LEFT TO TRY AND TEACH MY SELF IT WOULD BE OF UNBELIEVABLE GREAT HELP IF YOU COULD TELL ME HOW TO GO ABOUT THIS PROCESS THANKS ALOT

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Bloody complicated.! But you have not stated any info that would enable anyone to help you with. 1. How big are your hard drives? The original Warp 4 was released before large hard drives became available and has not been officially updated at all, until very recently. You will have to modify your "Installation disk 1" (ie. the second actual disk in the 3 disk set). You need IDEDASD.exe from the IBM Device Driver Site main page:-. http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf Short cut direct to section applicable:- http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=26.1#26.1 What you want is under:- "Greater Than 8.4GB IDE Hardfile Support" And also:- "To Create Additional Space on Installation Diskette #1" With no prior os/2 experience you should also haunt the comp.os.os2* newsgroups. Either make the neccessary modification above or wait a few weeks and buy eCS or the already released IBM MCP. Both of these are fully updated and are really Warp 4.5 (not 4). I assume the various Partition Magic versions you have installed do not report any partition errors. If "Partition Error #120" occurs, this will mean that you have created a logical partition with one of the Linux Fdisk equivalents. You must NOT accept Partition Magics' advice to convert extended partitions to ExtendedX type, either. Going to bed now, over to you. Robert Traynor (BobT). 31 May 2001 22:27

Continued next morning :) I forgot to mention that if you are installing Os/2 of any version on to a drive letter (primary or logical drive), other than drive c: then you MUST install IBM's BootManager. BootManager requires a Primary partition on the first drive and you may have to temporarily remove one of your existing primary partitions for the install and then afterwards you can delete it and use any other boot manager or system of your choice. The only time you are not required to install the IBM BootManager is when installing to a primary Drive C:. During the install you will be presented with a screen showing 2 choices. Easy or Advanced Install. You must choose Advanced. When in the Fdisk screen, you must choose to install BootManager and then choose or create the partition where you wish to install Os/2. You must also set that installation partition "Installable". One other note, Win2000 will destroy BootManager when you shut win2000 down UNLESS you have installed SP2 for Win2000. Good Luck. You need it. Robert Traynor (BobT)

this is a follow up to my question additional info as requested on my system is as follow 16 gig fujitsu 8 gig ibm 8 gig ibm 20 gig western digital 320 megs of ram 550 intell pent3 ide accelerator card (lends additional ide ports for additional drives (pci card)) v90 winmodem by lucent riva tnt vidio card 2 voodoo 2 black majic cards pushing the riva sound blaster awe 64 sound card internal 40x cdrom internal 32x cdrom internal 4x cdrw intellimouse mouse tablet (legal sized) orbital mouse scanner epson and cannon printer and a few other peripherals a lot packed in to a tiny space but except for my vidio configuration and modem all standardized and for an open architecture system i have not tried to implement the large drive drivers yet but now 2 questions come up one how do i implement them like i said complete moron when it comes to os/2 warp 4 second i tried changing my ide configuration because i know some versions of linux and unix dont like more than two drives on my ide accelerator card and now i get some funky error codes whenever i place the second install disk in after the blue welcome screen all goes to hell i returned my configuration back to normal and nothing i get the same garbage ive made several copies of the disks both post and pre change all get the same error i can copy it if you need but ive even tried removing all partitions from my hard drives to allow the install to create its own to allow install and still the crazy message help or i give up and ill just see if i can run the damm thing emulated on my current operating system thanks in advance i know im being kind of a pain in the but with this question but its frustrating to have gotten the hang of all theese other operating systems on my own and yet come to a screeching halt on one thats supposed to be a windows clone or vise versa thats utterly hummiliating....