how many megs of disk space with win-os/2 also installed, and can any one get the os/2 FAQ for this version as i can oly find the warp 3 one.

thanks

It should be less than 50mb with Win-OS/2 installed. OS/2 2.1 is pretty small..

As for FAQs on it, I have no clue. I haven't been able to find hardly anything about 2.1 on the net.

It seems that once Warp 3 came out, everyone forgot about the older versions.

Actually the most info I've found about OS/2 2.1 online was in an OS/2 history article on os2voice.org

http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1201H/vnewsf4.htm

It makes for interesting reading..

I don't think he referred to OS/2 v2.1. OS/2 v3/v4, etc.. all have Win-OS/2 as an option to be installed.

With OS/2 v2.x, you will need to have Win3.x installed prior to using OS/2 and OS/2 uses that instance of Win3.x within its Win-OS/2 session.

During the install (e.g. v4), it will tell you how much space each component takes up, including Win-OS/2.

A couple postings down he was looking for info on installing OS/2 2.1, thus I assumed that he was referring to it in this instance also.

And you're wrong about OS/2 2.1 not having a version with Win-OS/2 included. I have it here! I also have the version without Win-OS/2. Warp 3 is also like this. You can either buy OS/2 with Win-OS/2 or without...

I think they stopped that practice with Warp 4.

yeah they stopped it with warp 4, and the set that i have does have win-os2, so that takes care of that, and no i don't need win 3.1 installed first because, i did a complete reformat, then installed os/2, and IE 3.0 works fine, but i am haveing some truble with truetype fonts, but i figured out a way around that.

one more question, where can i get warp 3/4?
i like 2.1 for my notebook, (no pc card but then thats why i have a serial modem...)and want some thing a little more upto date for my near dead p90.

thanks again

About the best place to get Warp 3 & 4 these days is on ebay. Just do a search for OS/2 and you'll find it.

I don't know of anywhere you could download it or anything.. You can usually pick up Warp 3 for around $10 US on ebay, so it's not too bad. That's where I picked up mine.

Either Warp 3 or 4 should be great on a P90. Warp 4 will need a bit more memory of course. Around 32mb should do it. The more the better of course.

A full install of any version of OS/2 would fit in 100MB disk space. OS/2 2.0 only supported Windows 3.0. Windows 3.1 was not possible via a seamless session. However you could get around this by booting a virtual dos session and running Windows 3.1.

OS/2 2.1 provided support for Windows 3.1. The marketing campaign was that you did not need to buy a separate license for DOS/Windows/OS2, just one license and you have three operating systems. At the time, OS/2 was priced less than the three combined. Now you can get it on ebay for a fraction of DOS. OS/2 2.0/2.1 optimum memory was 8 MB yet would operate nicely in the minimum of 4 MB, just as long as you do not open too many sessions. The less memory you had the larger disk space you needed for the swapper file which would swap programs out of memory and save to disk. As you increase the memory the swapper naturally shrunk and with 64 MB or even 128 MB, you shouldn't have much of a swapper. Actually you can turn off the swapper in the config.sys with the statement MEMMAN=NOSWAP, but could be dangerous in running a lot of background sessions. OS/2 3.0 aka Warp 3 was optimized for 4 MB and included two versions Warp for Windows (which didn't include WIN-OS2) but used the current Windows 3.1x installation diskettes and Warp 3 full pack which included WIN-OS2. The came Warp Connect, which is Warp 3 with networking support including TCPIP and the Internet access kit.
Then came Warp 4 and required 16MB minimum.

When you acquire your Warp CD's it is a good idea to copy the original and store them safe and use the copy for installs. When OS/2 was first released, IBM permitted their employees to install working versions of OS/2 on a persons computer system free of charge, as long as no diskettes or install media was left with promo customer. As far as I known IBM never rescinded this policy and since OS/2 doesn't require serial numbers, this could be a way to bring awareness back to OS/2. You can still purchase OS/2 Warp from ibm website or acquire from auction sites.