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From: Kris Steenhaut 
> jkrim{at}comcast.net ha scritto:
> >
> >
> > This is a PIII 500 Mhz, 128 MB RAM and has a HD of ~8 GB which 3GB is 
> > OS/2 on HPFS (and yes I have hpfs.ifs).
> >
> Is the CD drive supported by W4? Remember Warp 4 GA  had lot's of issues 
> with all kinds of hardware.

Yes.  It is accessible when OS/2 is booted normally and it is an IDE one.
 
> I once had a W3 stalling at disk stage because Warp couldn't cope with 
> the onboard video. So there are a mass of reasons why the install could 
> crash.
> And in general the message "can't operate etc..." refers to
*dmd files. 
> Do the alt+F!-->F1 trick and try to figure out if os2dasd.dmd comes up.  
> If not, it is a hard disk problem.

Did that.  Still got problem when trying to go to command prompt.

> > Since this computer is at work, I will probably abandon it for awhile 
> > and try my PII 400 MHZ 128 RAM one at home. It has 160 GB HD which 
> > only 1 GB is for OS/2.
> >
> A PII with a 160 GB Hard disk?

I hae installed a 48-bit LBA aware PCI card to handle it/

> Anyway, Warp's  4  FDISK can't handle disks with that size, so I wonder 
> how you got OS2 onto it al all. IIRC W4 must be at least at level 
> fixpack 13.

Warp 4 is at Fixpak 15 on the hard disk.  And it is on a FAT16 partition
which is bootable even though it is sitting beyond the 1024 cylinder limit.

> BTW: what the use of installing W4 GA onto a partition Warp still is 
> present?

I don't really want to install it.  I just want a way to get to a command
prompt with diskettes.  This is the method I use for an emergency restore
for Back Again/2K.  BTW, I have the same set of utility disketttes for Warp
3.0 and they work perfectly on this machine so why can't the Warp 4 ones
work??

Jordan Krim


 
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