| Subject | : | FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | zizban zizban@adelphia.net |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 00:09 |
| I am having trouble installing Warp4. I have updated the drivers on the boot floppies for my large (40 gig) HD and booted. I am getting this error: Install os/2 Warp 4 I searched google and it seems this error can be caused by not partitioning the drive but how I am I supposed to partition the drive without fdisk? |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | Radek hajek@vuv.cz |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 10:27 |
| What's happening exactly? Does the installation start at all? Therefore: 1. Has the "installation diskette" been read and have you seen the "blue screen" with the text logo? |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | zizban zizban@adelphia.net |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 14:47 |
| I figured it out; I went to Advanced amd had to fdisk twice; once to partition set startable and another time to set installable. I'm new and I'm trying. I can't wait until my eComstation disks arrive! |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | Radek hajek@vuv.cz |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 15:50 |
| And when then the FDISK crashed? When you created the partition or when you tried to set it startable and installable? |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | zizban zizban@adelphia.net |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 15:54 |
| It crashed when I did easy install and it told me it had to erase the entire disk. |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | Radek hajek@vuv.cz |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 16:55 |
Aha! I see. The "easy" installation tried to give the whole disk to the OS/2 and you didn't want it Therefore, there are other partitions on the disk and, most likely, other operating systems ![]() You need to run "advanced" installation, install boot manager and add all partitions with the operating systems to the boot manager menu. This can be done from FDISK. Then you need to create a new partition for OS/2 (I recommend at least 1GB), make it "installable" and add it to the boot manager menu, too. This, too, is done from FDISK. Save changes, quit FDISK and the installation should run. |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | Fahrvenugen |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 17:07 |
| Hi, If you continue to run into problems with FDISK, IBM has actually posted a "refreshed" version of FDISK which works better with large hard disks (anything larger then 7.9GB). You can find it at: or for a direct link to the package: http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/extpart/expartw4.exe I've had a few machines that I was unable to get to partition or properly complete the install without this newer FDISK. |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | zizban zizban@adelphia.net |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 17:20 |
| Thanks all! Any tips on how to install fixpacks? |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | Radek hajek@vuv.cz |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 17:31 |
| 1. Download sfix41.zip from hobbes. It's a PM fixpack installer, which will make the patching MUCH simpler than the normal installation from the prompt. Install sfix. 2. Download all fixpack disk images and follow the sfix instructions. In principle, copy all of them to a new (empty) directory, run sfix and tell it where are the files. 3. Restart. |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful + FixPack Install |
| Author | : | os2power |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 17:32 |
| You will find detailed instructions on how to install "generally" in the first disk image of old Fixes, on other situation you'll find separate files of instructions from the IBM site. Searching by Google also gives results. ciao, os2power |
| Subject | : | Re:FDISK Unsucessful |
| Author | : | zizban zizban@adelphia.net |
| Date | : | 02 Mar, 2005 on 17:39 |
| Thank you all tons! You've made a newbie's life easier. |