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Installing OS/2 Warp 4.0 on Toshiba Notebook
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Original Message
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Name: MannyNeves
Date: November 26, 1999 at 09:57:58 Pacific
Subject: Installing OS/2 Warp 4.0 on Toshiba Notebook
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Comment: I just bought a Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDS Notebook with Windows 98 installed on a 4.0 Gb hard disk. I formatted the hard disk with OS/2 "Format" command from a floppy using the "HPFS" option. I have not been able to install OS/2 Warp 4.0 on this newly formatted hard disk. Aparently OS/2 Fdisk recognizes only 63 Mg Bytes on the hard disk which is not enough to install OS/2. Fdisk also reports that the partition may be corrupted.
Any help will be appreciated. Manny
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Response Number 1
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Name: Doug Campbell
Date: November 26, 1999 at 19:33:09 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I don't have a toshiba laptop. I have a NEC one. but.. Oops.
1) OS/2 and Windows need to have the boot blocks for the operating system within the first 1024 cylinders of the device. That said,
2) You should have your primary partition be win98 and install os/2 in a followup extended partition. The reason: You may need to flash your bios or some such nasty thing, and you'll need win98 running as dos7 to do that.
So, I'd reinstall win98, and then format a floppy with the /s option to make a win98 bootable floppy. Then transfer a minimal set of command-line commands to the floppy: sys.com, format.*, label.*, x*, fdisk.*, attrib.*, edit.*. Boot with this disk to assure that all devices are available, including cdrom; if necessary, copy device drivers and make a config.sys to assure sucessful boot-up and device recognition. If you successfully build this disk, format the primary partition on your hdd (it can be very small -- like 30MB, and xfer the win98 files to it from the floppy using format /s and xcopy. Make sure you can boot from that primary partition to a dos command prompt before going further. Now, to your real problem:
What happens if you run os/2 fdisk, remove all partitions, but the primary one, and then rebuild an extended partition?
This should work. You can then install os/2 into a logical volume in the extended partition. Do these steps from command line fdisk under os/2, and then format hpfs. Then run the blue-screen install to install os/2 onto your D: drive.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Manny Neves
Date: November 27, 1999 at 19:42:03 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Dough, Thank you for your response. What I originally tryed to do was to use the hard disk as a single partition to install OS/2. That's why I removed Win98 by reformatting the disk. I am not trying to install Win98 and OS/2 in separate partitions. My intent is to make the entire disk available to OS/2 through a single partition. I have been successful using this technique in other Toshiba notebooks with the same hard disk size. However, it doesn't seem to work with the Toshiba 2100CDS. The OS/2 FDISK reports a corrupted partition map. I don't know if I still have leftovers fron Win98 that were not erased by the FORMAT command and that confuse the FDISK.
I formated the entire hard disk using OS/2 "FORMAT /FS:HPFS" command from a floppy. This operation appears to be successful. however, FDISK reports a startbale primary partition with only 63 Mb (versus 4 Gb)and 2 Gb of free space and a corrupted partition map. FDISK lets me to delete the primary partition but for some reason doesn't allow manipulation of the 2 Gb free space (i.e. create partition). I called Toshiba, but since they don't have technical support for OS/2, I was unable to determine if there's something in these notebooks (hardware wise) incomparable with OS/2. Manny
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Response Number 3
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Name: Mark Schlegel
Date: November 28, 1999 at 16:59:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)what you really need is the update for the "Greater Than 8.4GB IDE Hardfile Support" from IBM, see link
http://service.software.ibm.com/
os2ddpak/html/miscellb/os_2warp/
index.htm The first one of the four there should be the link for "Greater than 8.4GB ide
hardfile support". I know you don't have a > 8.4 GB disk but your Warp 4 original box is so old it's not even supporting your 4.0GB (there was a idedasd update in an earlier fixpack
like FP 6 or so). So you can install the latest idedasd.exe update into your install disk (see the README.txt inside the idedasd.exe after you download it and extract it). You need to put
set COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 in your config.sys to make sure the new driver
is copied from the floppy and not the old one on your cdrom if you want to read the readme.txt before download, see:
http://service.software.ibm.com/
os2ddpak/html/
19990607154000_0000023779_README_TXT.html mark
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Response Number 4
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Name: DGROSE
Date: December 2, 1999 at 06:14:10 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)did you first to a fdisk/mbr to reset the partition table and reload the master boot record?
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Response Number 5
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Name: SAWB
Date: December 3, 1999 at 09:40:38 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Go to this site for the information... www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/notebook.htm or just go to www.os2ss.com and follow the links to Dr Martinus notebook site. It is a gold mine for notebook/laptop users.
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