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Subject: OS/2 on VirtualPC for Mac 5.0.4 - success!
Date: 4 Mar 2003 06:46:58 -0800
From: schmidtd{at}my-deja.com (David Schmidt)
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps

I bought VirtualPC last September and failed to get any sort of networking
to work from within the virtual OS/2 machine, so I had kind of given up at
the time.  Recently, I had the "opportunity" to rebuild my office
box - and realized I had another opportunity to go at VPC.

What I did was installed a working version of OS/2 Warp 4 on my office box,
zipped it up and put it on CD.  I then did a plain install of Warp 4 on
Virtual PC (omitting networking - it's the networking install that always
fails).  I restarted the Virtual Warp box using "floppies" (the
install disks from the Warp 4 CD), popped in my burned CD, and unzipped the
Warp image on top of the C: drive.  (I had to do this because on an earlier
try, SYSINSTX C: failed due to 'internal error'.  So I couldn't just unzip
onto a blank virtual partition.)

Reboot, and viola - I had networking in a Virtual Warp 4 machine under Mac OSX!

When I boot now, it always give a SYS 3171 in an 'unknown module'. But
blowing past that, it runs and networks fine, which was my goal.

Next, I tried to install Fixpak 12 on the virtual partition.  That didn't
go so well.  It trapped during the final reboot, and now it gives _two_ SYS
3171s during bootup - and I don't get a desktop.  So my next task is to
retrieve the vanilla install (It sure is nice to have a single file as an
entire hard drive backup...) and try an earlier Fixpak.  Maybe 5, which
seems to be a minimum requirement for lots of things.

Once I've got a fixpak installed, I'll go for Scitech's display drivers (or
maybe the native S3 one, it'll be easy to try both) and a compliment of
development tools.  But it is nice to at least be working at a level that I
wasn't able to get to before!

- David Schmidt


Now there's the data ..


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike {at} 1:117/3001

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