Compaq Armada laptop (166mhz/80mb/2.1gig) C-drive is 450mb FAT-16 D-drive is 1600mb NTFS I am trying to install Warp 4 on C:\ Shortly after the screen "Easy Install" or "Advanced Install" intallation stops because it is unable to format C:\ Why can't it format a pre-existing FAT-16 partition ? Why does it need to ?

Is it truly FAT16? If you had Win9x on there, it could have been FAT16, although I am not sure why you cannot format the partition. Is it within the 1024 limit? Had you tried the updated disk images for install disks 1 and 2? T22

Yes I tried disk 1 and 2 that can be downloaded from IBM. Those didn't work either. In any case, even if my FAT-16 is not to Warp's liking, it should just format it as if it were un-used space

<<Compaq Armada laptop (166mhz/80mb/2.1gig) C-drive is 450mb FAT-16 D-drive is 1600mb NTFS I am trying to install Warp 4 on C:\ Shortly after the screen "Easy Install" or "Advanced Install" intallation stops because it is unable to format C:\ Why can't it format a pre-existing FAT-16 partition ? Why does it need to ? >> 1st. You apparantly installed NT on D? So the NT bootloader was on C. Then you must be lucky that you did not succeed in formatting C. You would lose both DOS and NT! If you want to install OS/2 on system with NT you first have to install the OS/2 bootmanager in a tiny 1 cylinder primary partition. Os/2 can be installed in a logical partition. You can use fips to make room for OS/2 the bootmanager. But you must be prepared to lose NT if you format DOS!

OS/2 warned me that if I proceed with the installation I would lose NT bootloader. I was prepared to do that. It is no biggie to re-install bootloader. My idea was that if OS/2 worked out fine on c-drive, I would reformat d-drive, too (hpfs) and have an OS/2 (only) machine. So your opinion is that if I reformat c-drive using dos, OS/2 would install on C:\ ?

If you are prepared to lose the NT install you can install OS/2 in C. During the installation OS/2 wil ask you to format it as DOS or HPFS. As the WPS will be on the bootdrive HPFS is the better choice. But first formatting it under DOS might help if the installation hangs because of the NT boot loader. Yoy can also repartition it using the advanced installation.

Thank you for your co-operation. I managed to install OS/2 on c:\ I turns out that those hidden NT files scared OS/2. After I relocated them onto a floppy it went fine, didn't even need to re-format. Now I am realizing that I need to format c:\ hpfs if I want to see long file names