In a message on Thursday 01-13-16 James Coyle said to mark lewis:   
      
   Hello James,   
      
   JC> There was so much generic PC hardware that running OS/2 then was   
   JC> like building a Hackintosh now, you have to build the hardware   
   JC> specifically for the operating system...   
      
   Yes, I agree. It's sad that IBM abandoned the ship when it could by   
   themselves, have improved the compatibility to modern machines.   
      
   JC> I bought WARP and never got it to work on any hardware I ever owned,   
   JC> from my 486/66 to a friends 486/50 to my P2/300.  I spend hours and   
   JC> hours talking with IBM support trying to get it to work, and it just   
   JC> never even installed correctly.   
      
   The main trick, as I see it, is to install OS/2 first on a clean disk,   
   with partitions that don't exceed 2Gb. After having installed it, you   
   can whatever you want with the rest of the HD space.   
      
   In 2012 I successfully installed OS/2 Warp4 and FP12 into a machine with   
   an Intel or AMD 233 MHz(66MHz bus) by installing OS/2 first to one   
   500 MHz (op.system and GUI), and two 2 Gb partitions, then Win XPp to   
   the rest of the 40 Gb HD.   
      
   Year 2015 I did the same to an ACER AP6200 with a 433 MHz Celeron CPU.   
      
   JC> Maybe its just OS/2 that hates me! :)   
      
   No, it isn't. Not even I have so far not been able to install Warp4 to   
   a Thinkpad (Lenovo), with a dual core CPU, even de-activating one core   
   hasn't brought success, so far.   
      
      
   Have a good night,   
      
   Holger   
      
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