What's the trick to installing OS/2 Warp 4 on an IBM 9.1GB drive? I had partitioned the drive 50/50 and formatted with a Win98 boot disk. OK, I know that was wrong. Then I re-partitioned with an old DOS 6.22 boot disk. Of course I ended up with 4 partitions, but I could have lived with that. OS/2 still won't allow me to install.

Isn't there a way to partition the drive with larger than 2047MB partitions? I'm fully aware of size/block limitations inder DOS with FAT16, but I had understood that OS/2 allowed for the larger sized partitions.

Any help greatly appreciated. I'm determined to install and use Warp 4 on an old box I just threw together. Specs are as follows:

AMD K6-2/500
128MB PC100
M598 MoBo (With most everything onboard disabled)
Trident 9750AGP vid
Creative Soundblaster 16
3Com Fast Etherlink 3c905
48x Mitsumi CD
91.GB IBM 7200RPM drive

I think you got old disk drivers that didn't allow big partitions.

The largest FAT partition that OS/2 allows is 2gb. The largets HPFS & JFS partition that OS/2 allows is ??? There are FAT32 drivers for OS/2 around on the net, but I have yet to use them.

Also, OS/2 wants to be on the first 1024 cyl.

What I would do is:

7mb for Boot Manager
C: - Win on FAT 2 gb
D: - OS/2 on HPFS 2 gb
E: - 2gb for DOS data for Win
F: - 3gb for HPFS data for OS/2

You are 100% correct. I have Warp 4 in a box that I've had for a few years. I just used the install disks from the box. I found and downloaded updated install disks from the IBM site that worked great. The instructions said they were for Thinkpads, but I took the chance and they worked just fine.

I've got Warp 4 installed now and I'm preparing to install FixPak15 later today. Will start figuring out how to set networking parameters and connect to my home network after that. Hope I can figure Warp out. I think I'd prefer using it to Win XP. I really don't like what Microsoft did to Windows.

I'm really an old DOS geek at heart and have loads of DOS/Win 3.1 apps I still like. Seems Warp will allow me to continue using them while offering me a true 32 bit multi-tasking, multi-threading OS. I've been scouring the 'Net for good OS/2 apps and found Mozilla and StarOffice. Seem to be having problems getting StarOffice downloaded, but I'll prevail eventually. I welcome any suggestions on OS/2 apps you all might have. I use my PCs mainly for home/personal use, so apps like web browsers, office suites, cd players, image viewers, and WYSIWYG HTML editors are on my list. I'd also like to find a decent OS/2 anti-virus app. Any suggestions?

anti-virus, haven't needed to use one yet since 1994 on OS/2 :-)

I use PMMail/2 for emailing...

Cd players, you can use PopCD or something else or Warp CDCopy.

I use PM123 for MP3 Player.

I use Leech/Lame via Warp CDCopy to convert CDs to MP3.

HTML Editors, I use Netscape Composer and System Editor or Star Office.

For TV Tuners, I use Hauppage.

For CD Burning, I use CD/Record.

If you goto http://hobbes.nmsu.edu , you will find a lot of utilities/apps, etc... Happy findings!

Don't forgot to look at these websites:

www.os2ezine.com
www.os2world.com
www.os2voice.org

I haven't seen this mentioned before but
this week I partitioned a 17.5G hardisk
in one partition for my D (data) drive.
I run Os2 v4 with FxPk 14.

From the OS2 command line the program -
fdiskPM.exe - allows for Large partitions.

Of course OS2 must be installed first...

I run DOS/FAT16 on a small c: partition,
d: (data) is a primary partition on the
second hardrive and e: is my OS2 partition
with OS2 Boot Manager on the first SCSI
drive.

OS2 is fully object oriented and the OS
partition can be backed up and recopied
to a newly formatted partiton with no
problems. I use HPFS for my data drive and
have a Directory labeled BACKUPS in which
resides my OS with various levels of FxPks etc for trying new programs, etc...

To copy my backup from d: drive to e: drive
I use a small Maintenance partiton with a minimal OS2 install - g: drive, it could be
c: drive and it can even be done with a little
creativity by a floppy Boot.....

From Boot manager I boot the Maint partition,
and run a command similar to below in an OS2
full screen session... be creative...

xcopy d:\backups\Os2\whatever\*.* e:\*.*
/s /e /h /t /r /o /v

it works...

OS2 is Wonderful.