Subj : Installing OS/2
To   : Stewart Arnett
From : Herbert Rosenau
Date : Tue Jul 08 2003 01:16 am

Am 05.07.03 23:35 schrieb Stewart Arnett

 HR>> That means: WARP older als 4.50: up to 0.5 GB

 SA> C: partition 2Gb D: - E: - F: partitions set to 2.33Gb = 10Gb one hard
 SA> disk. OS 2 Warp 4, no fixpacks off the first series CD, proof that it
 SA> works is the fact I am writing this on the machine and this message is
 SA> posted from the Rockbbs.

Oh, I'd started the first install of OS/2 3.0 on amn I486/50 with

phys.	
HD	size
C:	500 MB		system
D:	2 GB		programs
E:	4 GB		data
F:	4 GB		data
G:	4 GB		data

Then I go a CD drive inserted as H:

No problem even with WARP3 GA. The trick is: I had not a single drive FAT 
formatted. All HPFS.

As the C: was died I'd changed the hard disks around and got
C: 2 GB		only because I like to have 1 physical drive == 1 partiton!
D: 4,5 GB	because the new drive was so fat.

In the meantime I'd changed the system to a P100
1 physical hard drive 8 GB:
C: 	1   GB
D:	1.5 GB
E:	1.5 GB
F:	4.5 GB
G:     18   GB

There is really NO limit that requires that a partiton can not be more than 2 
GB. When you've got problems with ibm1s506.add you should replace it with 
danis506.add, because it is more stable, works better (producesd more 
throughput), works together with more IDE controllers.

If you're running now your WARP4 at GA level you're living errornous, because 
there are so many fixes who are remoing instability and bugs in all subsystems 
AND there are many programs around who won't never work with a system prior to 
FP 5 - even as the unfixed FP 5 is really crap.

So required fixes for WATP4.0 are
- FP12 - basis system
- DD03 - device drivers as since FP10 no devce driver is in the base fix 
package.
peer fix	to get peer services working right
tcp/ip fix	to get the IP stack really functional
tcp/ip app. fix	to get the tcp/ip applications doing what they designed for

FP15 with all its associated fixes is the most stable OS/2 I've ever seen since 
OS/2 2.0 was released and prior FP15. But FP15 is the first working fix after 
the faulty FP13 and FP14 who are merged the WSoD kernel with the WARP4 kernel. 
FP15 needs the latest kernel fix (14.094) from testcase to be so stable as 
FP12.


 SA> The reason I use it this way is simply because it works, it sits here for
 SA> months doing it's thing and I only empty the trash every so often.

FP12 or 15 works quite better. The last device driver fix fixes lots of 
problems with some hardware you notes as problems when they are gone!

WARP4 GA is known as to be an early beta in reality. It is problematic to get 
it installed on so modern computers as a P100 or 133 is. The WPS is not so 
stable as it should be, the WarpCenter crashes more often as it is 
functional....

To get most bugs of the WPS removed you needs FP5. To get a nearly error free 
WARP4 you needs FP12 + the fixes mentioned above.

To be compatibe with most newer applications you need FP15. Don't experiment 
with FP13 or 14. Both are crappy.

 SA> The real fun was setting it up on an old 486 that wouldn't see the hard
 SA> disk, that was on an HP Vectra 66, you tell me how I made that work ;)

Fixup the system and it works.

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