Subj : I'm going to do it!
To   : Holger Granholm
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Wed Jun 22 2005 06:45 am

Hello Holger,

    Responding to a post in the OS2 area:
    On Friday June 17 2005 at 21:28,
    Holger Granholm [2:20/228] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: Re: I'm going to do it!

 GM>> After a hiatus, I've decided to turn this echo back on...

 HG> Welcome back!

Thank you.

 GM>> I'm waiting for a tray to use in my mobile rack and then I intend
 GM>> to install OS/2 Warp version 4 on a Pentium II MMX 200MHz (with
 GM>> 128MB of RAM) and a Fujitsu 10GB HDD (if it is in working
 GM>> condition) or a

 HG> Two bits of advice. If you don't have an updated version of Warp 4,
 HG> don't install more than 64 Mb RAM for the installation.

My MoBo BIOS Feature Setup does have an "OS Select For DRAM >64MB" setting.
The current default setting is 'Non-OS2' and, of course, the other setting
is 'OS2'.  I've been lead to believe that with the installation of OS/2
Warp 4, the DRAM setting should not be an issue and that I can probably
leave it set to the current default -- Non-OS2.  There seems to be a lot of
conflicting opinions in this regards and I could appreciate a definitive
answer.

 HG> Also, don't format more than 2 Gb of the HD before the installation.

This may be the reason that it took me seven hours before I gave up.  What
are your recommendations of how I should partition this HDD and what file
format?

The HDD is set at Cable Select and is in the Master position of the IDE-0.
I have a CD-ROM set at Cable Select and is in the Slave position of the
IDE-0.  The Master and Slave positions of IDE-1 are currently empty, but I
can insert a tray that holds a MS-DOS v6.22 (WfW 3.11) - 3GB or a tray that
holds Windows 98 Second Edition - 6.18GB...

 HG> Doing otherwise, the installation will fail. After installation you
 HG> can upgrade the RAM to what you want to use.

 HG> To use the full capacity of the HD you will also have to install a
 HG> device driver upgrade

I believe that by going to the WarpDoctor Clinic
<http://www.warpdoctor.org/index.html>, downloading WARP4IU1.EXE, and
extracting the files to a floppy diskette, I hope I resolved that issue.

 HG> and to have the operating system to be fully compliant with the new
 HG> millenium you have to install at least FP9.

That's going to be sometime in the distant future because I have to get the
OS installed first and then I'll be asking where I might locate the Fix
Paks...  :-)))

           Thanks ... Gerald

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