I'm in the process of trying to install OS/2 Warp 4 on a PIII.
I have all original software from my days in Team OS/2 and there is no
way I can get the install to format the HD to HPFS (or FAT for that matter). The HD size that it gives me is not the same as I have
partioned it using the FDISK from my windows disk. It has been a LONG time since I ran Warp and eventually would like to have another BBS running again. (Used to run Bob's Bored/2 in Toronto) Can anyone
please help me get over this hurdle? My email address is
rob905@msn.com.
Hello Robert.
02 Jun 03 10:09, you wrote to All:
* Original message posted in area OS/2 Discussion * Cross
posted to area OS/2 BBSing OS/2 Hardware
OS/2 Hardware Discussion (Gated)
I'm in the process of trying to install OS/2 Warp 4 on a PIII. I
have all original software from my days in Team OS/2 and there
is no way I can get the install to format the HD to HPFS (or FAT
for that matter). The HD size that it gives me is not the same
as I have partioned it using the FDISK from my windows disk. It
has been a LONG time since I ran Warp and eventually would like
to have another BBS running again. (Used to run Bob's Bored/2 in
Toronto) Can anyone please help me get over this hurdle? My
email address is rob905@msn.com.
Hard disk size is the problem here.
Make a partition of less than
2.4 gb and leave the rest of the disk as free space. Install OS2
on the partition and get it running, then, use OS2 to partition
the rest of the disk into 2.4 gb partitions and format them as
HPFS with OS2. I only use the first C: partition for the OS2
itself, the BBS is on D: mail on E: and files on the rest of the partitions. This is on a Compaq deskpro 4000 (P1 166 machine)
with a 20gb drive and a stock standard (no updates) OS2 warp4 installation.
Am 30.06.03 19:21 schrieb Stewart Arnett
Hello Robert.
02 Jun 03 10:09, you wrote to All:
Hard disk size is the problem here.
No and yes.
Make a partition of less than
2.4 gb and leave the rest of the disk as free space. Install OS2
on the partition and get it running, then, use OS2 to partition
the rest of the disk into 2.4 gb partitions and format them as
HPFS with OS2. I only use the first C: partition for the OS2
itself, the BBS is on D: mail on E: and files on the rest of the
partitions. This is on a Compaq deskpro 4000 (P1 166 machine)
with a 20gb drive and a stock standard (no updates) OS2 warp4
installation.
With any OS/2 version prior to WARP4.51 (that includes WARP4.50) there
are some limitations:
- the installation partiton must be completely inside the 1024
zylinder limt. As none of this versions supports the BIOS extension
that makes it possible to boot from a partiton above that limit.
The size of a data partiton is anyway only kimited by the file system
on it: - FAT16 2 GB - HPFS 64GB - HPFS386 84 MB.
With WARP4.51 and newer (that includes eCS) there are news:
1. A bootable partiton can be anywhere on the disk
2. the 1024 zylinder limit is fallen completely - when the BIOS
is new enough to handle the new extension
3. HPFS can be spanned over more than one volume
but for that you have to reformat it thereafter
4. the new filesystem JFS allows a volume size up to 2 TB
int can be spanned over multiple partitons on multiple
drive
it uses a much bigger cache (default: 10% of RAM)
it can hold files bigger than 2GB (but not all applications may be
able to handle such big files.
Even as there was never a limit for the size of bootable partion
(except the 1024 zyliner limit and the limit a specific filesystem may have) it ould be always a good idea to hold the size of the system partiton so small as possible.
That means:
WARP older als 4.50: up to 0.5 GB
newer as 4.5: up to 1 GB.
And beside the system partiton one or more partitons to hold data and applications.
-+- Sqed/32 1.15/development 702:
+ Origin: Recht haben ist gut, Recht bekommen ist besser!
(2:2476/493)
That means: WARP older als 4.50: up to 0.5 GB
C: partition 2Gb D: - E: - F: partitions set to 2.33Gb = 10Gb one hard disk. OS 2 Warp 4, no fixpacks off the first series CD, proof that it works is the fact I am writing this on the machine and this message is posted from the Rockbbs.
The reason I use it this way is simply because it works, it sits here for months doing it's thing and I only empty the trash every so often.
The real fun was setting it up on an old 486 that wouldn't see the hard disk, that was on an HP Vectra 66, you tell me how I made that work ;)
Sysop: | digital man |
---|---|
Location: | Riverside County, California |
Users: | 1,027 |
Nodes: | 17 (0 / 17) |
Uptime: | 56:41:06 |
Calls: | 502,333 |
Calls today: | 1 |
Files: | 100,779 |
D/L today: |
249 files (59,335K bytes) |
Messages: | 299,963 |