In a message on Thursday 01-13-16 James Coyle said to mark lewis:

Hello James,

JC> There was so much generic PC hardware that running OS/2 then was
JC> like building a Hackintosh now, you have to build the hardware
JC> specifically for the operating system...

Yes, I agree. It's sad that IBM abandoned the ship when it could by
themselves, have improved the compatibility to modern machines.

JC> I bought WARP and never got it to work on any hardware I ever owned,
JC> from my 486/66 to a friends 486/50 to my P2/300.  I spend hours and
JC> hours talking with IBM support trying to get it to work, and it just
JC> never even installed correctly.

The main trick, as I see it, is to install OS/2 first on a clean disk,
with partitions that don't exceed 2Gb. After having installed it, you
can whatever you want with the rest of the HD space.

In 2012 I successfully installed OS/2 Warp4 and FP12 into a machine with
an Intel or AMD 233 MHz(66MHz bus) by installing OS/2 first to one
500 MHz (op.system and GUI), and two 2 Gb partitions, then Win XPp to
the rest of the 40 Gb HD.

Year 2015 I did the same to an ACER AP6200 with a 433 MHz Celeron CPU.

JC> Maybe its just OS/2 that hates me! :)

No, it isn't. Not even I have so far not been able to install Warp4 to
a Thinkpad (Lenovo), with a dual core CPU, even de-activating one core
hasn't brought success, so far.


Have a good night,

Holger

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