I am currently using Windows 98 and I decided that I want to change, so a friend of mine gave me a copy of OS/2 Warp 3. The installation program does not recognise my Cd-ROM drive (LG Electronics 40X)and the booklet that came with the CD-ROM drive says that OS/2 fully supports it. Well, I noticed another alternative was to make installation floppies - not much luck with that either (All of the floppies I tried after disk 2 hade problems even though they were formatted with no errors..) Now, if possible I would like to Install OS/2 off a hard drive or a Zip Drive. Is this possible to do this? If it is how do I do it?

I've never installed ver. 3, only ver. 4. Maybe my comments will apply ... or maybe not. It could be your problem isn't the CD but the size of your HDD. The reason your floppies may have failed may have been volume label was off ... you must make sure that the volume label is the same as the floppy you copied from. Set the volume label after formatting the floppy. Ver. 4 uses three installation floppy disks and a CD. If you are attempting to install to a HDD > 8.4GB, you will have to modify Disk 0 of the installation set. Go to: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe and run it to extract the new versions. Make diskcopy versions of the first two install diskettes and update the copy with the new files. If you have to delete anything to make the new files fit the you can remove AIC7770.ADD if you don't have an Adaptec EISA SCSI card and/or AIC7870.ADD if you don't have an Adaptec PCI 2940 series SCSI card. Remember to REM out the relevent lines in CONFIG.SYS if you have to delete these files and add SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 even if you don't. Search deja.new under "OS/2 idedasd" for more information. If this isn't your case, try deja.com and search for "OS/2 Hard Disk Install". It should be possible to install from HDD but you'll have to point your installation disks to the HDD instead of the default CD-ROM. Check out the comp.os.os2.setup newgroups for further help along with deja.com. Also check out http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/catalog.htm ... you can download Netscape 2.02 for OS/2 vs. 3 ... and http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n4/fixpak.html for helpful FixPak into. Hope this helps. Hope this helps. By the way, after you install OS/2 ver. 3, be sure to apply the latest fixpak which will give you the same kernel code as the latest ver. 4 FP 11. The one cool thing about OS/2 ... free updates!!! Check out http://duanec.indelible-blue.com/fixes/LatestWarp4.html

I have a IBM OS/2 Warp installation Disk which does not work can you help me to get a new installation disk