Installation Disk A of Microsoft OS/2 1.3. DOS International named OS/2 Warp the Operating System of. OS/2 Warp 4 Installation and Update Manual; with boot. OS/2 Technical Support - Tips and Tricks. With Warp 4 you must install some type of networking. (your boot disk). Open the OS/2 folder.

Introduction & First Steps Although there may be no actual reason to renounce from the purchase of an eComstation, I will show you here how to get out the most of an new or existing OS/2 Warp 4 installation. Certain things like support for USB sticks or a fine grained support of the mouse wheel (not issueing PgUp/Down instead of scrolling) may however not work without components from the 'convenience pack' which is in turn only available to eComstation licensees. Note that you would need a PS/2 mouse for installation although USB support can be installed later on.

However if you just wanna have a little adventure in experimenting and setting up your own Warp based eComstation operating environment you may be on the right place here. Given the right upgrades and updates you will not even miss a windows style task bar for OS/2 Warp. This page does also show you how to install standard software on OS/2 Warp besides showing you how to do a new installation of OS/2 Warp from scratch. OS/2 Warp is known to work on a variety of elder 32bit and also newer hardware.

OS/2 Warp is worth a special recommentation to Lenovo Thinkpad users. It is the ideal replenishment for your Lenovo Thinkpad. You can install it in addition to Windows or any other operating system. Ace Pro Email Extractor V1.0. OS/2 Warp may be the safest operating system ever available. There are no rootkits and spyware for OS/2 Warp - and there will never be (while there are already many root kits put around for Linux and FreeBSD). OS/2 Warp has a safe kernel using three of four protection levels of your intel CPU instead of using only two hardware protection levels like Windows, MacOS, Linux or FreeBSD. The third protection level is here for userspace device drivers like the many graphics drivers supporting fast hardware accelaration.

Studies have shown that in order to implement a secure operating system at least three protection levels need to be used. The sources of the kernel are well protected so that potential writers of rootkits do not have access to them. With a Lenovo Think Pad you will have direct support by Lenovo to run OS/2 Warp. The first thing you will have to note when deploying OS/2 Warp 4 is that it comes with three boot disks which are required because the original Warp 4 installation CD does not boot. You can see it as an advantage rather than a disadvantage because that will allow you the customization of disk drivers and the kernel for the installation. That way you could bypass restrictions as the 8GB booting barrier or the limitation to the HPFS file system.

HPFS is only readable under Linux while JFS is a much more stable file system which can fully be made use of also by Linux. EComstations do nowadays install on JFS by default while I recommend you just to make a 4GB primary HPFS booting partition with OS/2 and add a big augmented JFS partition by hand later on. 4GB is pretty much enough for the core system as with the primordial ibm1s506 disk driver only 2GB of disk space and 512MB of memory could be accessed. To circumvent this restrictions you will have to download one of the following disk images: •, as Linux Images:. • • • •,: my own disks with Dani`s driver as Linux boot image *** use this *** Note that all these boot disks do originally come in the flavour of self extracting executable files so that you would have to have an existing OS/2 Warp or eComstation installation or boot CD in order to create the disk images. For your convenience I have provided some of them as pure disk images which can directly be used under VirtualBox or Linux. Issue the following command in a Linux console to make a boot disk from one of the images: dd if=WarpBootElm-1.img bs=512 of=/dev/fd0; cmp /dev/fd0 WarpBootElm-1.img && echo ok Nonetheless you should also be able to use a pure disk image under OS/2 or the eComstation by issuing the xdfcopy command.

XDFCOPY C: DiskImgs Disk1.dsk A: To my personal experience the Lenovo Thinkpad boot disks are a bit newer than the WarpDoctor boot disks though all of them are basically outdated. Use my own disk images (last line) with the new Dani`s disk driver but don`t panic if it does not work. For instance on one of my old computers Dani`s driver just indicates with three beeps that it can not access the disk. It seems to be an incompatibility with the IDE controller of the main board.