Hi Nick,

 NA> Can OS/2 v3 be _manually_ installed on a drive with less than 30 meg
free?

The non-Connect version can, or the Connect version without the networking
components. It can also be automatically installed into 30Mb of disk, however
you have to perform the Advanced install and be REALLY mean on the install
process and leave out ALL the non-essential items to reach that level of disk
space usage. However I am not aware of how one would do this WITHOUT
installing the WPS.

 NA> I know OS/2 requires at least a 386 with 2 meg RAM

I plugged an old drive into a 386-16 with 3Mb memory and the drive booted up
Warp 3, but it was extremely slow! I would not attempt to install Warp 3 on
anything less than 4Mb RAM.

 NA> but if OS/2 can work on lets say, an MFM/RLL drive,

Yep, it sure can (at least V1.3 & V2.0 could). MFM/RLL drives use the IBM1S506 
driver so unless something has been broken in that over the years it should
work fine.

 NA> Any help appreciated.

Sounds like you need a bit of really hard work there though.......;-)


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