i have a set of floppies for OS/2 1.2 Standard and a set of the Extended edition. i would like to run it on my father's old 386, which originally ran OS/2 before i got to it (sorry). now my main problem is getting it installed. the disks set i have don't seem to be booting. In the Standard set i put in the Instalation disk, and power up my PC, however, it's not seen as a proper system disk: ---snip---- A disk read error occured. enter a system diskette and restart the system. ---/snip--- i have booted the machine into MS-DOS, and attempted to read the disk. All the disks from the standard and the extended sets can be read under MS-DOS.... so what exactly i'm i doing wrong?

Aw poor baby... mommy wommy won't let the mean UNSUPORTED OS HURT YOU! (DIE IBM! IT HAD GREAT THINGS IN STORE! b---tardS! Have you by chance looked for a copy of the disks on google?

sinistar is absolutly right. OS/2 1.xxx is waste of time. Buy Warp 3.0 from ebay or so. (10$ Maximum) If you put some memory in your 386 it will work. I used Warp 3.0 on a 486/66 with 8MB Ram and a 240MD Disk for 5 Years (unfixed!). And it works fine. Most older OS/2 programms will run with warp 3.

look, i don't have the money to spend buying OS/2 nor do i want to. i am just wanting to re-install the ORIGINAL operating system of that machine. that is an OLD 386, i don't want to bother spending hrs on end anymore. guess OS/2 is dead anyways, so i'm going back to the *BSDs; with which i can actualy work on it.

no keys--- I repeate: It is waste of time!! no keys--- 1. Maybe the OS/2 floppy's are corrupted. DOS will show you the directory, but the files are not available any more. Did your try to make a diskcopy? I remember 10(!) years ago the IBM floppys aren't very good. I had many problems with them. So if they are gone ..., i throw away the OS/2 1.2 + 1.3EE floppys when OS2.0 were available. (Sorry) These floppys are now 10 years old, and they have the right to RIP. 2. Did you change the Partionsize on this Computer? OS/2 1.2 has limitations! 32MB Partionsize.

Your problem is not OS/2. It is in the harddisk. Format it and try again.