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OS/2 Warp 3 Floppy to CD

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Name: mr_oh_so_ice
Date: January 26, 2008 at 04:44:22 Pacific
OS: Windows XP x64 SP2
CPU/Ram: Core 2 / 6600
Product: Clone
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Hi there, I own the original floppy version of OS/2 Warp 3 (Red). Is there a way to backup this to an OS/2 CD?

At the time, my CD drive didn't work with OS/2 so I got the disk version, but I'd like to backup them up on something better, as I only have 1 set of backup disks.



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Name: os2fan2
Date: February 15, 2008 at 15:36:29 Pacific
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You can use something like winimage.exe or loaddskf.exe to create diskette images. The OS/2 install puts these in \disks\35\... on the cdrom, but the actual location is up to you. The standard name for the install disk is "disk0.dsk"

To make an install from the cdrom, first, hunt down a free proggie called 'os2hdd'. This is actually a DOS program, and will work quite well under a Windows NT box. It takes two parameters (diskette name, path), and unpacks the diskettes into the form that the cdrom expects, eg \os2v30\disk_1. You then modify disk1's config.sys etc to install from the cdrom directly. Google is your friend,

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Name: jefro
Date: May 6, 2008 at 15:24:45 Pacific
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Or any *nix, use dd or cat to a file. Then burn to disk as track one.

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