In a message dated 07-29-15, Roger Nelson said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Good morning Roger,   
      
    HG> Maybe it is but I did install my original Warp 4 plus FixPak 12   
    HG> last year on another machine and it worked right away. Admittedly   
    HG> it wasn't an up-to-date machine but I don't recall what processor   
    HG> it ran.   
      
   RN> That is what I believe the problem was.  I just partially built an   
   RN> up-to-date system with state of the art architecture and it won't   
   RN> install on it, either. I'll have to find an old 386 machine   
   RN> somewhere and try it on that.  When I had one of those back in the   
   RN> early 90s, I ran OS/2 from December '92 until Win95 came out.   
      
   Well, a 486 will also do. I do now have the details of the machine that   
   I mentioned above.   
      
   It is an Asus TX97 mobo with a socket 7. The processor is an AMD   
   K6/233MHz   
      
   There is also another trick to learn. The HD must not be larger than 2Gb.   
   To do that you will have to install it on a virgin HD (any size) with   
   only the first 2 Gb formatted. The OS/2 os, incl GUI, occupies only 120   
   Mb so you may partition that as you want.   
      
   After the installation you may update the *.SYS, *.ADD, *.DDP drivers   
   provided by IBM to the newer ones from Daniela's libraries.   
      
   IIRC the most important is the replacements of IBM1S506 by DANIS506 to   
   be able to use larger HD's. Also IIRC, if you use HPFS-formatted HD's,   
   (normally I don't), the size of the HD may be much larger than 2 Gb.   
      
   RN> I still think I need older hardware.  I even tried eCS, but   
   RN> found it lacking in some areas and too pricey for me, so Warp 4 sits   
   RN> on the self along with Warp 3.  My OS/2 2.1 and 2.11 diskettes are   
   RN> long gone after the storm of 2005.   
      
   Dunno what happened to my Warp 3 (CD or diskettes) but the two original   
   installation start diskettes of 2.11 can sometimes be useful. The rest   
   of v2.1 and 2.11 diskettes have been re-used. With OS/2 you can still   
   use the 3.5" diskettes as storage media since the files that OS/2 creates   
   are so much smaller than the files Windows programs and text files due to   
   the meta data included.   
      
    HG> considered eCS because I too find it too pricey but it's the   
    HG> easiest way to install OS/2 on newer hardware.   
      
   As Sean Dennis mentioned earlier, another option would be a Warp 4.52 CD.   
   It is self-booting and IIRC also allows it to be installed on large HD's.   
      
   Have a nice day,   
      
   Holger   
      
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