Some senseless babbling from Linda Proulx to Will Honea
on 11-10-99  13:12 about Re: OS/2 on old clunkers...

 LP> Greetings and Salutations,

 LP> -=> Will Honea wrote to Linda Proulx <=-
 
 WH> Linda, I mentioned in another post about booting from floppy to test
 WH> drive configuration.  If you have at least EGA (preferably VGA) video
 WH> on the '89 vintage machine try booting it from the Warp 3 install
 WH> floppies.  I had several 85 - 90 motherboards which were quite happy
 WH> with Warp 3 despite rumors to the contrary.

 LP> 'Unleashed' says no.  Something about the AMI bios.  And the Laser has
 LP> some odd engineering.  If I do, will have to use the Red because the
 LP> old unit has no CDROM. And will lose the Connect feature.  How would I
 LP> know that it was a no go if I tried an install.  And if it worked, how
 LP> would I put the connect back in?  Would a Laplink type of file copy
 LP> work if I copied the Blue over the Red?

I don't know how easy it'd be to do an install over a laplink type
connection.

You can, however, create installation diskettes from all CD versions of
OS/2.  I wouldn't recommend it unless it's your only option.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... I give up, what is the meaning of life?

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