If you don't have any install disks newer than the originals, then you need
to get the latest ones available, which are quite old now. Drill into this
site and download the install disks say for a thinkpad T21

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/product.do?brandind=10&familyind=50268&machineind=0&operatingsystemind=50685&template=%2Fproductselection%2Flandingpages%2FbrowseByProductLandingPage.vm&validate=true

The original drivers would not work a hard drive over 4.3 gigabytes.
Otherwise you will have to look for the files from at least fixpack 8 or
later I think, and update your disks. When you get it installed, you will
be looking for a lot of update drivers. Also make sure you have less than 1
gig of ram installed until it's working.  

Good luck, and hope this helps.
Franklin



--- On Sat, 7/12/08, rallee2{at}comcast.net  wrote:

> From: rallee2{at}comcast.net 
> Subject: Re: [OS2HW] Help Please...Install Problems
> To: os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 9:20 AM
> Greetz Gents
>   Since I don't know if this is a hardware issue
> I'm hoping it's OK to post this 
> question here.  Besides, you are the only OS/2 guys I know
> and trust.
> 
>   I recently managed a pretty amazing deal on a like-new
> PIII-S (the one w/ 512K 
> cache) in a sweet little case and a decent brand mobo
> (Gigabyte GA-6VEML) which 
> is the all-onboard type that I never buy but the whole PC
> in a case with lots of 
> goodies for $75 US seemed just too good to pass up.
>   If you think you need specs here it is:
> 
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=137
> 8
> 
>   It installed both Slackware Linux and Windows XP just
> fine but I didn't have 
> an MS license and I already have a killer (AMD btw but
> admittedly an Asus w/ 
> nVidia chipset) Linux box plus I kinda had it in mind when
> I saw it that I'd 
> like to build a newer dedicated OS/2 box (networked, just
> not multi-boot).  
> Furthermore since my older one has been hacked and modified
> so many times and in 
> so many ways I thought it'd be refreshing to start anew
> with a clean install and 
> employ only the mods I actually like and use.  Oh yeah,
> this is an out of the 
> box Warp 4 installation.
> 
>   Anyway everything proceeds fine at first up until the
> moment where it copies 
> the startup files from CD (and floppies if "set
> copyfromfloppy=yes" is employed) 
> and it asks one to remove the diskette and strike
> "enter" to restart the 
> workstation and proceed with the main body of the install. 
> Boot manager comes 
> up but *immediately*, and I do mean immediately!, it beeps
> and I get a deal 
> breaker error saying "cannot load startup file system.
>  the information for the 
> startup file system is incorrect"
> 
>   I have lost my old manual that came in the box and it has
> been so long since I 
> installed Warp 4 I have forgotten (if I ever knew, come to
> think of it) what 
> causes this error.  I tried booting to command prompt and
> using "tedit" to check 
> out the temporary "config.sys" which seems fine
> and searched around to see if 
> "hpfs.ifs" was present and matched the date and
> size on the CD (it does).  I assume
> that if the system can read from CD and write to hard drive
> all is AOK with drives (though 
> I did have to partition the drive to make the boot drive
> smaller.  I chose 930MB.
> 
>   If one can take the error msg literally and the problem
> is truly one of either mounting or
> reading the HPFS file system I would think perhaps the
> order in "config.sys' might be 
> hinky but the install process did it and should be
> right...right?
> 
>   Anyway any thoughts are welcome.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 

      

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