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  • Most older computers can't boot from usb, so you are going to have to use a cd , A bootloader does exist that allows you to boot from a usb if the bios doesn't allow it , but it is a floppy image , But the way that a cd boots is of course with a floppy image , there is a hidden folder in a bootable cd that had a bootable floppy image , which is the way that a cd can boot. Its this bootloader called plop [urlhttps://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html][/url] , I do not remember if it has a cd iso with the bootloader , but you can make one yourself , using any program that allows you to make cd images , you can make a bootable cd image using the floppy image. I believe plop will boot a usb floppy not totally sure , but I know it will boot a usb flash drive.
  • If the floppy images are 'normal' 1.44 MB and the USB floppy drive is supported in the firmware, then you can probably boot from it.
  • The ThinkPad T22 can boot from USB devices. Just attach the USB floppy drive and hit F12 at BIOS screen.
  • well ive got it to boot to the usb floppy disk drive and it boots but when I insert disk 02 it gives me an error message that it is unable to configure my hardisk or floppy disk drive ive done some research and apparently you need a real drive and i prefer not to salvage a docking station and diskette drive to install OS2
  • how do install os/2 with out a diskette drive all i have is a usb diskette drive and when i install it it give me an error message saying os/2 is unable to configure the hardisk or floppy drive please reboot your computer by the use of control alt delete or by pressing the reset switch. my specs are as shown i have an ibm thinkpad t22 900mhz pentuim 3 ,cdrw drive , a 6.5 gig hardisk i use install os/2 and last is an overkill of 256 mb ram and 8 megs of vram
  • Um, OS/2 won't install on a system with more than 64 MB of RAM and I think a 6.5 GB hard drive requires special install disks. http://www.warpdoctor.org/downloads.html has install disks that allow Warp to be placed on a Thinkpad with larger than 4 GB hard disk.
    USB floppy drives won't handle the IBM XDF format used on most OS/2 floppies. After the install starts, hope the CD drive works.
    Note that the system you are installing on is capable enough to run Warp in a virtual machine which would save you a lot of grief trying to run an OS with drivers more than 5 years older than the hardware.

  • Um... What version?
    I use warp 4.52 just fine on a near-stock IBM ThinkPad type 2885 (x31) ('60'GB hdd)
    IT HAS 512 OF RAM!
    Frankly, OS/2 is a monster on that thing
    (looks over at os/2 with 6 WIN-OS/2 sessions, 8 apps, and 3 explorer windows open)

  • Years ago I had rigged a CD-ROM with MS-DOS that would boot up, I'd format the disk with 2 partitions, and install MS-DOS into the first partition, boot up DOS, and then use the restore command to restore my OS/2 install onto DOS. Naturally there is no extended attributes, so to cheat I had another backup of my OS/2 install done in OS/2 on the 2nd partition, then use the dual boot feature of OS/2 to boot up to cmd.exe

    Now in a minimal OS/2 boot, I could then restore my full OS/2 install, reboot and I had restored OS/2 with all the EA's onto a fat disk.

    the same methodology works for OS/2 1.21 as well, Just a shame there is no 'convert' program to convert FAT to HPFS.

OS/2 1.1; OS/2 1.3; OS/2 2.1; Warp 3; Warp 4; Warp 4.5; If you use one of those, almost nothing in this doc is relevant. If you'd prefer to experience the joy of installing and configuring, or are working on a real-steel machine, press on. Each version of OS/2 is a slightly different experience and you should try each of them if. OS/2 3.0, marketed under the name 'OS/2 Warp', reduced memory usage over OS/2 2.x and included Internet access software. The 'Connect' version includes Ethernet networking and peer-to-peer file sharing. The 'Blue Spine' editions bundle the Windows 3.1 files so no additional software is needed to use the Win-OS/2 subsystem. It was followed up by OS/2 Warp 4. OS/2 Warp 4 incorporated a number of new technologies, such as Java, OpenGL, OpenDoc, and VoiceType. It also updated the appearance of the. OS/2 Warp 3.0 Boot CD - posted in Windows 3x/9x. But the utility pack is worth the download. OS/2's version of sourceforge. 32s) are executed faster under. The 'OS/2 Warp, Version 3 Technical Library' provides both guidance and reference information and can be used for OS/2 Warp, Version 3 development. Programming guide information is organized by topic and contains everything an application developer needs-function details, data structures, and message descriptions-to design, write, and build.

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The main IDEA of the project was taken from eComStation DemoCD. My version has smaller memory requirements (for eCS DemoCD => 192 Mb!!!). Tools needed for CD/DVD making:
  1. Distributive of OS/2™ Warp 3.0 + XR_W044 + XR_D003
  2. Distributive of OS/2™ Warp 4.0 + XR_M017 + XR_D003
  3. Distributive of OS/2™ Warp 4.52 (MCP2, ACP2) + XR_C006 + XR_D003
    + with additional drivers Os2Ahci, DaniS506, DaniAtapi, DaniDASD, RamFS, NTFS, Fat32, JFS/UDF etc.
  4. BCDW 1.50z (for loader menu)
  5. BCDW 2.01a (for fdd loader) - loader.rar
  6. cdimage, oscdimg from Microsoft or mkisofs (for iso-image creation)
  7. mkbootcd (for making boot-catalogue)
  8. Winimage (for working with HDD/FDD images)
  9. Nero Burning ROM.
  10. Memdisk/OS2CSM/PmVdmCC tools by Veit Kannegieser.
  11. Emulatiors. Connectix/Microsoft VirtualPC & VirtualBox.
Bootable CD creation is made in MS Windows environment.

System requirements for Bootable CD.

HDD Emulation + OS2CSM. (Accessible hard drives, floppy, & all devices which work via BIOS INT13h calls. CD/DVD unavailable by design.)
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.*
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 8 Mb.*
FDD 2.88 Emulation + OS2CSM. (Accessible hard drives, CD/DVD, all devices which work via OS2DASD/LVM. floppy unavailable by design.)
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 8 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.*
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 8 Mb.*
MEMDISK + OS2CSM. (Accessible hard drives, floppy, CD/DVD, all devices which work via OS2DASD/LVM.)
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] MEMDISK) >= 32 Mb.
CPU selection:
For Os/2 v 3.0 (??.??? kernel) - 386SX CPU+
For Os/2 v 4.0 W4 (14.097 kernel) - 386SX CPU+
For Os/2 v 4.5 W4 - 486SX CPU+ (14.105_W4 kernel)
For Os/2 v 4.5 UNI - 486SX CPU+ (14.105_UNI kernel)
For Os/2 v 4.5 SMP - 486DX CPU+ (14.105_SMP kernel)
* NB! When swapping to HDD it is recommended to use HDD working in LBA translation mode, i.e. > 504 Mb. Warp

CD contents.

Here are the components of my CD:
  • Craig's PCI Hardware Sniffer.
  • Browsers: FireFox, Mozilla, Netscape 4.61, SeaMonkey (start them from RAMFS or HPFS partition ONLY)
  • DFSEE.
  • FC/2 2.30, 2.40.
  • GRADD 0.99 + SNAP Graphics drivers.
  • IBM Theseus v3 (and v4).
  • Innotek Flash 7 Player.
  • MPTS / TCPIP 32Bit (or 16Bit) + support over 80!!! netcards. OpenGL libraries
  • mplayer, Warp Vision, Z! Player.
  • ODIN32 XP.
  • 7zip, arj, rar, lxlite, nelite, hiew, (un)zip, biew, sl, emx lib...

CD operating manual.

!!!NB : if you have more then one CD/DVD device you must boot from the first one. HDD not required, but recommended for swapfile.
If your system does not supports CD booting, loading is possible via bcdl bootable floppy (http://bootcd.narod.ru/) to run this CD on PCs w/o BIOS support for ELTORITO ATAPI CDROM BOOT (look BCDWLOADER.RAR = 3 images of fdd-loader), BUT in some cases:
1) only FDD 2.88 Emulation (HDD Emulation now works only in Warp 3.0);
2) FLOPPY must be disabled. Otherwise IBMINT13.I13 traps when in HDD Emulation mode.
The booting process is also possible using 'Ontrack Disk manager' bootable floppy ('Press spacebar to boot from diskette or Press C to boot from CD-ROM' option).(http://www.ontrack.com/) Works on PCs w/o BIOS support for ELTORITO ATAPI CDROM BOOT.

This CD supports the following boot media emulation types:
1) FDD 2.88 Emulation (2.88 Mb FDD Image).
2) HDD Emulation (40-60 Mb HDD Image).
3) No Emulation MEMDISK (4 Mb MEMDISK Compressed Image).

  1. Here is loader menu BCDW 1.50z
    You can select entry by pressing [Up], [Down] keys and then - [Enter].

  2. Menu sample:
  3. Menu commands.
    • [PageUP]/[PageDOWN] change pages.
    • [TAB]/[Shift]+[TAB] walks through fields.
    • [Space] set marks '[v] Use FLOPPY'.
    • [UP]/[DOWN] change fields 'Video: [GENGRADD]*'.
    • [1]/[2] - fast switching modes VIO/PM.
    • [3]/[4] - fast switching modes 'net'/'nonet'.
    • [ESC] [ALT]+[F1] skips menu (???).
    • [F10] continues to boot.

  4. OS2CSM Loader options:
    • Country: English US (+ISO) (437,850) or Russian/english (+ISO) (866,850).
    • Boot type:
    • (E)IDE/PATA/SATA Support: OS2AHCI/DaniS506/IBM1S506/IBMINT13 (note that DaniS506 works only with DaniAtapi and it does NOT support AHCI or RAID modes!),
    • ATAPI Support: DaniAtapi/IbmAtapi,
    • DASD Support: DASD32+LVM/DASD16/DANIDASD+FAT32.
    • Optical drives: JJSCDROM/OS2CDROM/OLDCDROM,
    • Video: IBMVGA32/VGAGRADD/GENGRADD/IBMEGA/IBMCGA/SNAP(SDD)/MONO or no video.
    • LPT+COM / without ports.
    • Mouse COM/PS2 / without mice.
    • Drive selection for swapfile.
    • RAMFS selection & RAM-drive size (RAMFS needed for Workplace Shell!).
    • Pauseonerrors=YES / NO
    • Autofail=YES / NO
    • Suppress popups on drive:[A-Z]
    • DOS support / without it.
    • Win/OS2 support / without it.
    • OPEN32/ODIN support / without it.
    • IBM USB (u|o|ehci) support / CW USB (u|ohci) support / w/o USB.
    • UNICODE.SYS / without it.
    • UDF, JFS, HPFS, Fat32, NTFS, Up2Tb.flt / without it.
    • FLOPPY / without it (in some cases it must be disabled!).
    • APM / without it.
    • APIC on Chip / without it.
    • ACPI / without it.
    • TCP/IP 16/32 bit with autodetection of 2 netcards simultaneously + DHCP (setupd.cmd) or manual setup (setup.cmd) of net params / without it.

  5. To start FC/2 from command line enter:
  6. To change default graphics mode resolution from command line (before starting pmshell) enter:
  7. To start DHCP discovery from command line enter:
  8. To manually set static IP from command line edit and enter: and edit nameserver address:
  9. To start graphics shell from command line enter:

Screenshot.

Plans.

  1. Install MMPM/MMOS2 (now only libraries are set), SNAP/SDD (installed, now in testing).
  2. Install browsers: Opera, etc.
  3. Install Warpoverlay.
  4. ODIN for win32 implementation (installed, now in testing).
  5. WIN/OS2 for win16 implementation (installed, now in testing).
  6. Make kernel selection (W4/UNI/SMP).

Special notes.

  1. EGA/CGA video modes work ONLY via HDD emulation. (???)
  2. Netscape works ONLY via MEMDISK option. (???)
  3. DOS subsystem works ONLY via HDD emulation.
  4. WiN/OS2, ODIN/OPEN32 subsystems may not work correctly.
  5. The CD may not be loaded with '[v] Use FLOPPY' option - I recommend to disable it.
  6. In HDD Emulation mode IBMINT13.I13 halts booting process when hdd with more then 8 Gb is detected.
  7. In FDD emulation mode IDE CD-ROM doesn't work (IBMATAPI/OS2CDROM not needed) by design.
  8. The system is in testing regime now & has some traps :)

Startup sample.

To boot from CD select:
For GUI-mode set marks - 'RAMFS' & 'Enable mouse'
Then - [F10].
If you have some problems booting this CD after you see 'OS/2 WARP x.x CONFIG.SYS BOOT OPTIONS' you may change boot parameters.

Manual CD creation.

To create such a CD by yourself use the following directory tree:
  • [DIR] APPS - Miscellaneous programs.
  • [DIR] BOOTIMGS - boot catalog for MemDisk.
  • [DIR] BCDW - Bootable cD Wizard 1.50z
  • [DIR] CID - OS/2 CID.
  • [DIR] FC2 - subj. & others (lxlite + archivers).
  • [DIR] IBMCOM - OS/2 Network components.
  • [DIR] IBMI18N - OS/2 Network components.
  • [DIR] LANGUAGE - UNICODE language components OS/2 (for all).
  • [DIR] MMOS2 - OS/2 Multimedia.
  • [DIR] MPTN - OS/2 Network components.
  • [DIR] NETSCAPE - subj.
  • [DIR] ODIN - subj.
  • [DIR] OS1 - root dir OS/2 v 3.0
  • [DIR] OS2 - root dir OS/2 v 4.5
  • [DIR] PSFONTS - subj.
  • [DIR] USR - some useful progz.
FDD/HDD images are made using Winimage.
It is possible to make image from 'real' HDD drive - Primary Master (C:) (better not greater then 100 Mb).
To be continued... ...

Customized version of CONFIG.SYS

Download ISO image OS/2 Bootable Recovery Live CD.

You MUST own a OS/2 Warp or eComStation license, to legal use this disk!

Current version dated: September 28th, 2015.
HTTP Link here (full-version without TOOLS):
DOWNLOAD OS2BOOT.ISO 7Z 2015.28.09

Team BOOT/2 OS/2 recovery boot CD, using a new technology.

if you need this disk but newer go to irc-channel #os2russian.

How to boot from USB: copy contents to usbflash/hdd, and then modify bootsector and MBR using toolsfreeinst. To restore the image to Flash, you can use DFSee disk, partition and filesystem tool.

Please do not ask me about these images. I will not provide any support for them. Support for these boot images available on #os2russian irc channel, f.e. irc://irc.inet.tele.dk/os2russian - or http://chat.efnet.org:9090/?nick=bootuser&channels=%23os2russian&Login=Login. You may ask in english or if your write in russian, make sure that in your irc chat program encoding set to koi8-r.

IBM OS2 Warp 3.0 (Bluebox Edition) (3.5)

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