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Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

Original Message

Name: Mr, X (by Robin86)
Date: April 18, 2007 at 09:39:45 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC
OS: Windows Vista Home Premiu
CPU/Ram: Athlon 64, 2GB RAM

Comment:

Hi,
I'm trying to install OS/2 Warp 4.52 on Virtual PC 2007 but I can't get it to work.
I insert the first floppy disk (floppy 0) and then it says to insert floppy disk 1, which I do. Then it tells me to insert floppy 2 and press enter, but when I do that some error messages (something about config.sys) fill the screen and then it says "Loading, please wait...
S/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive. The system has stopped. Correct the preceding error and restart the system.
How do I solve this problem?

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Response Number 1

Name: orbital
Date: April 18, 2007 at 11:44:49 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

Reply: (edit)

Have you tried the updated BootDisks ??
http://www.warpdoctor.org/downloads...

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Response Number 2

Name: Mr, X (by Robin86)
Date: April 18, 2007 at 11:50:08 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

Reply: (edit)

Thanks for your reply.
I would but I don't have any floppy disks and Winimage can't read those files. You wouldn't happen to know where you can find *.dsk or *.img versions of those disks?
And even if I did have floppies Vista tells me that they aren't valid Win32 programs when I try to run them.

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Response Number 3

Name: orbital
Date: April 18, 2007 at 12:37:24 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

Reply: (edit)

You can make IMAGES of floppies with WINIMAGE, but you would need a floppy drive.

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Response Number 4

Name: Mr, X (by Robin86)
Date: April 18, 2007 at 12:40:45 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

Reply: (edit)

NO, you can load floppy and CD images with Virtual PC.

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Response Number 5

Name: orbital
Date: April 18, 2007 at 14:34:00 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

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I meant you would need to create the floppies first then use WinImage to create an IMAGE file of the floppy.
If I am totally wrong please ignore this suggestion....

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Response Number 6

Name: Mr, X (by Robin86)
Date: April 18, 2007 at 15:14:05 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

Reply: (edit)

Okay, I managed to make the floppies with a Windows NT virtual machine and I got past the part where it crashed previously.
Now I have another problem. When the installation is about to begin the screen turns red with the error message "SYSINST2.EXE failed to return the target drive."
The only option it gives is to return to the command promt.
Do I have to partition and format the drive like with Windows 95 before the installation, and if so what are the commands to do that?

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Response Number 7

Name: orbital
Date: April 18, 2007 at 15:20:18 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

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I believe SYSINST2.EXE is related to the Optical Drive and it is trying to assign/locate the "Warp4 CD".....

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Response Number 8

Name: Mr, X (by Robin86)
Date: April 18, 2007 at 18:40:11 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

Reply: (edit)

I managed to get Warp 4 installed but I want the latest version.
I there any way I can update my Warp 4 to 4.52?
Installation of Warp 4.52 still doesn't work.
Sorry for the triple post but there is no 'edit' button.

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Response Number 9

Name: orbital
Date: April 19, 2007 at 00:46:54 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

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FYI the latest version is eComstation from Serenity System:
http://www.ecomstation.com

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Response Number 10

Name: jefro
Date: May 18, 2007 at 15:00:42 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

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Did you adjust any bios settings on VPC. Not your computers bios but the virtual bios. Did you start with 2.88m floppies?
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

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Response Number 11

Name: os2fan2
Date: June 10, 2007 at 01:56:09 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

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sysinit2 is actually the install program.
Give OS/2 more than 64 MB ram, and you should be able to boot directly from the cdrom.
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The dream we dream together is reality.

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Response Number 12

Name: os2fan2
Date: July 10, 2007 at 00:46:24 Pacific
Subject: Problem installing Warp 4.52 on VPC

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Make up a DOS virtual machine (eg DOS 5 or DOS 6, or even Windows 9x.
You then copy the files to the DOS hard drive (WinImage can do this for you: you can inject files into a hard disk).
Then put loaddskf.exe (a DOS/OS2 bound app), into the image.
Create a floppy image in WinIMAGE, mount it into the DOS image, and use loaddskf to write the OS/2 diskettes to this.
I do this quite often.
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