In a message to Will Honea, Linda Proulx wrote re: OS/2 on old clunkers

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.  

Well, like Will says, boot from the Install diskettes and see 
what happens.  You can abort the installation after you've booted
if you don't want to install right away, but at least you'll know
if you have this purported BIOS problem.  I'm afraid there's no
other way, and you're just wasting your time worrying until then.

LP> If I do, will have to use the Red because the old
LP> unit has no CDROM. And will lose the Connect feature. 

The CD's have a utility that can create diskettes you can install
form.  This utility works in both DOS and OS/2, so if you have 
another machine with a CD drive you can make the diskettes on 
that machine and install them on the other machine.  That's how I
installed OS/2 on my laptop, which lacks a CD drive.  Even the 
Connect network and tcp/ip support packages can be installed from
diskettes in this way.


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