Some senseless babbling from John Hentsch to All
on 10-06-99  22:48 about Installing win98 with OS/...

 JH> I setup Warp v4 on a new machine tonight. I installed boot manager
 JH> and created a 2 gig primary partition for win98 and installed Warp v4
 JH> on a extended partition. I left about 117mb for the last logical drive
 JH> on the extended partition for a OS/2 maintenance partition.

 JH> The question I have is what do I need to do in order to prevent win98
 JH> install from wiping out OS/2's boot manager and OS/2 installation on
 JH> the D: drive in the extended partition on a 6 gig hard drive (I used
 JH> the newest IDE drivers).

Win98 is probably like Win95, in that it will tell you that Boot Manager
can't be used, but won't do anything other than assign its own partition
the startable bit.

You'll just have to use FDISK (the DOS one in Win98 will do fine) to change
the Non-DOS partition to startable, after the installation is complete.

 JH> Also, is System Commander v4.0 a more feature rich boot manager
 JH> compared to OS/2's boot manager? I have it here and I'm wondering if
 JH> it would be a good idea of installing it over OS/2's boot manager.

I've never used SC, but it probably has a whole host of features not found
in BM, since a lot of OS/2 users have purchased it.

Since I can't conceive of any feature I'd need that BM doesn't have,
though, I haven't yet bought it.  Maybe in the future, when I decide to be
more clever in my partitioning.

 JH> As usual for all the times I've installed Warp v4.x, I'm having
 JH> trouble getting a non-Sound Blaster 16 sound card to work with Warp
 JH> v4.0. It identifies itself as a OPL3-SA3 sound card at BIOS bootup.
 JH> Warp can't see it.

Warp 4 was released three years ago.  You can't expect it to have drivers
for everything made since then.  Most sound cards have OS/2 drivers.  Yours
sounds like an Opti or ESS-based card.  It should have come with a driver
disk for OS/2, and you can probably also pick up the drivers from a web
site, if you know the manufacturer.

 JH> Also, the network failed to install. OS/2 install reported an error
 JH> 1608 (I think). I installed the driver for a DFE-530TX PCI Ethernet
 JH> card during the install procedure. Something went wrong with the
 JH> network software install though and no network support was installed
 JH> at all. I didn't see any mention of NetBieu protocol support in OS/2's
 JH> install program. What do I need to do in order for OS/2 to
 JH> communication to a win98 network?

NetBIEU is WinXX's name for NetBIOS, which OS/2 supports.  You will need to
update MPTN, since there's a bug that prevents writing to a WinXX box.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... Does that look like a slut to you, Beavis?

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