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1. Quick Question regarding Warp 4... |
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| I own 2 computers, one with a CD Drive, and a laptop without. I know I can install Warp 4 Using floppies, and I know the correct batch file to use. I just don't know how many Floppies I need! I don't want to find out I need 50 when I only bought 25, or whatever. Can anyone tell me how many it uses? |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 04:13 |
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| If you have the possibility of a network connection between the computers, using supported hardware, you can install Warp on the laptop using the CD drive on the other machine, using just 3 floppies. Let us know if you are in that position, and I can let you know how. Otherwise you will need up to 100 diskettes, depending on what you want to install Stuart |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 11:31 |
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Stuart (18 Mar, 2006 11:31): If you have the possibility of a network connection between the computers, using supported hardware, you can install Warp on the laptop using the CD drive on the other machine, using just 3 floppies. Let us know if you are in that position, and I can let you know how. Otherwise you will need up to 100 diskettes, depending on what you want to installStuart
Well, the laptop only has a 28k(i think) modem, and all of the older "legacy" ports. I would like to install like the base system with an office suite of sorts (think OpenOffice) That leads me to my other question, is there a FREE office suite available for warp? Thank you!
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| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 20:47 |
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| Can you get hold of a PCMCIA network card? A 3Com etherlink would be well supported. Otherwise, as I say, be prepared for many floppies! Actually, several PCMCIA CD-ROMs are supported. As regards Office suites, I think the only one is IBM works (included with Warp 4), but that one is pretty good for the basics. Stuart |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 20:57 |
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| Out of interest, what laptop is it? |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 20:58 |
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Stuart (18 Mar, 2006 20:5 : Out of interest, what laptop is it?
It's a Compaq Presario 1220 ( i think it is a foreign model, because there is no info anywhere online) it runs Win 95 (ecch) It has a CD Drive, but it is broken. [b]Can you get hold of a PCMCIA network card? A 3Com etherlink would be well supported. Otherwise, as I say, be prepared for many floppies! Actually, several PCMCIA CD-ROMs are supported. As regards Office suites, I think the only one is IBM works (included with Warp 4), but that one is pretty good for the basicsStuart
My local electronics stores do not sell the cards off the bat, they need to order them, and that could take a while. |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 21:24 |
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| oops, didn't mean for that smoker guy to appear |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 21:26 |
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last updated at 18 Mar, 2006 21:42 (2 times) [update] I found 49 floppies in my garage. Is this enough for any install? [update for the update] I did a bit of digging, and found my specs for the 1220: Cyrix GX Processor 32 MB Ram Internal Cd reader (broken) Internal Floppy Drive Paralell, VGA, Serial, PCMCIA, Modem, but unfortunately, no USB or Ethernet (LAN) |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 21:32 |
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| 49 floppies could be enough. If you have Warp installed on the other machine, insert the CD and run PRODDSKS.CMD This will create the required number of disks for each stage. You can reuse the same disks later for installing WIN-OS2, VoiceType (if required) etc. Don't worry if the diskettes are old - in my experience older floppies are better made than new ones. I have found new floppies that can't be written to twice without failing, whereas I have 15 or 20 year old floppies which work again and again. Stuart |
| Date: 18 Mar, 2006 on 23:44 |
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Stuart (18 Mar, 2006 23:44): 49 floppies could be enough. If you have Warp installed on the other machine, insert the CD and run PRODDSKS.CMD This will create the required number of disks for each stage. You can reuse the same disks later for installing WIN-OS2, VoiceType (if required) etc. Don't worry if the diskettes are old - in my experience older floppies are better made than new ones. I have found new floppies that can't be written to twice without failing, whereas I have 15 or 20 year old floppies which work again and again.Stuart
Unfortunately, nothing else I have runs Warp right now. My desktop runs XP, and i'm installing Warp on the laptop as an experiment to see if I like it. I know what you mean about the floppy thing, it seems everything is like that nowadays. For instance, I have a cd-rw from 2001, and it still works, even though it is severely scratched, and I bought a new one last month. I dropped it, and it stopped working. I'm staying at a relatives tonight, but tomorrow I will be back home again to make/install the disks.
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| Date: 19 Mar, 2006 on 09:10 |
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| Here's another thought - how about a 3.5" to 2.5" IDE adapter? Plug the laptop HD into the desktop in place of the main HD and install there. You would only need to make the three install diskettes - just make sure you select PCMCIA and power support during advanced install Stuart |
| Date: 19 Mar, 2006 on 09:50 |
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| Yup, based on what you've said, the best option is to either make floppies or plug the HD into a desktop to get through the install. Unfortunately the floppy install can be a long and painful process... I never liked playing "toaster" to install software. There is a .BAT file on the CD Rom which will create the install disks. Look in the root directory of the CD for a .BAT file and run that from a command prompt. IBM was smart to think that some people would need to create disks in DOS or Windows |
| Date: 19 Mar, 2006 on 16:55 |
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Fahrvenugen (19 Mar, 2006 16:55): Yup, based on what you've said, the best option is to either make floppies or plug the HD into a desktop to get through the install. Unfortunately the floppy install can be a long and painful process... I never liked playing "toaster" to install software.There is a .BAT file on the CD Rom which will create the install disks. Look in the root directory of the CD for a .BAT file and run that from a command prompt. IBM was smart to think that some people would need to create disks in DOS or Windows
That sounds like the easiest way to go. Thanks guys! |
| Date: 19 Mar, 2006 on 19:46 |
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| If I remember correctly, LOADDSKF will not work in XP. ..No direct floppy access for DOS apps, I think. I could be wrong, but I remember having trouble with these combatants. |
| Date: 20 Mar, 2006 on 15:59 |
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Nick (18 Mar, 2006 21:24):
Stuart (18 Mar, 2006 20:5 : Out of interest, what laptop is it?
It's a Compaq Presario 1220 ( i think it is a foreign model, because there is no info anywhere online) it runs Win 95 (ecch) It has a CD Drive, but it is broken. [b]Can you get hold of a PCMCIA network card? A 3Com etherlink would be well supported. Otherwise, as I say, be prepared for many floppies! Actually, several PCMCIA CD-ROMs are supported. As regards Office suites, I think the only one is IBM works (included with Warp 4), but that one is pretty good for the basicsStuart
My local electronics stores do not sell the cards off the bat, they need to order them, and that could take a while.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=Compaq+Presario+1220+cd&category0= a cd drives for your laptop? http://cgi.ebay.com/COMPAQ-PRESARIO-1220-SERIES-CD-ROM203736-001_W0QQitemZ6815187727QQcategoryZ42186QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem http://www.3klix.com/Scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=830 type A http://www.3klix.com/Scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=4256 type B http://www.3klix.com Have you tried replacing the cd drive? One on eBay and the model is listed at 3Klix. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=compaq+presario+1220+cd+drive&btnG=Search+Froogle results using Froogle and 'compaq presariou 1220 cd drive'.
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| Date: 20 Mar, 2006 on 16:33 |
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phaelonimaire (20 Mar, 2006 15:59): If I remember correctly, LOADDSKF will not work in XP. ..No direct floppy access for DOS apps, I think. I could be wrong, but I remember having trouble with these combatants.
I wouldn't reccomend using LOADSSKF anyways. I had a bad time writing data to perfectly good disks(tested with large RAR the "error copying data". Transferred and extracted perfectly fine.). I say you should use either WinImage or the image writing utility included in M.E.S.S. if you use XP... |
| Date: 21 Mar, 2006 on 23:03 |
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| IMHO it is better to buy a refurbished cdrom drive to replace the broken one ... this kind of notebooks often lead to partition (geometry) problems when you partition the hdd on other machine ... another recomendations is to build an updated warp4 install cd in the other computer using updcd ... |
| Date: 22 Mar, 2006 on 17:06 |
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[/quote] I wouldn't reccomend using LOADSSKF anyways. I had a bad time writing data to perfectly good disks(tested with large RAR the "error copying data". Transferred and extracted perfectly fine.). I say you should use either WinImage or the image writing utility included in M.E.S.S. if you use XP...[/quote]Which images do I use in Winimage? |
| Date: 27 Mar, 2006 on 00:46 |
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| I don't know if Winimage will work to create a complete floppy install - does it handle the XDF format? When you're creating Warp 4 floppies, the first 2 disks are created using loaddskf.exe (they're standard disk images) but after that Disk 3 through 39 use the XDF format, and get created with XDFCOPY.EXE when you run the .bat file to create the disks. (I have no clue if XDFCOPY will run under Win2000/XP). Farq, this may have been part of the reason that you were having trouble. If you tried to create the disk images using loaddskf on the XDF images, it'll fail every time. Also, XDF uses every possible little space on the disk which can be used for data (it manages to cram around 1.9 MB on a floppy). As a result, a good rule of thumb is you do have to have top quality disks for them to be created properly. I can recall one time doing a floppy install about 10 or 12 years ago and I found that the cheaper brand of disks had errors outside of the normal area of use. Sure, if they were formatted for the 1.44 MB standard, they worked fine (as the problems were outside the areas used for 1.44 MB). But the same disk wouldn't work for the XDF format. I ended up going out and buying a set of decent quality, brand-name disks, and was able to create the full install set. The main reason I remember the incident is that was the last time that I ever installed using floppy - since then I've always either done CD or network installs. The actual images are stored on the CD in: \diskimgs\os2\35\ Anyways, good luck Nick. Hopefully you'll get it up and running! |
| Date: 27 Mar, 2006 on 06:05 |
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Fahrvenugen (27 Mar, 2006 06:05): I don't know if Winimage will work to create a complete floppy install - does it handle the XDF format? When you're creating Warp 4 floppies, the first 2 disks are created using loaddskf.exe (they're standard disk images) but after that Disk 3 through 39 use the XDF format, and get created with XDFCOPY.EXE when you run the .bat file to create the disks. (I have no clue if XDFCOPY will run under Win2000/XP).Farq, this may have been part of the reason that you were having trouble. If you tried to create the disk images using loaddskf on the XDF images, it'll fail every time. Also, XDF uses every possible little space on the disk which can be used for data (it manages to cram around 1.9 MB on a floppy). As a result, a good rule of thumb is you do have to have top quality disks for them to be created properly. I can recall one time doing a floppy install about 10 or 12 years ago and I found that the cheaper brand of disks had errors outside of the normal area of use. Sure, if they were formatted for the 1.44 MB standard, they worked fine (as the problems were outside the areas used for 1.44 MB). But the same disk wouldn't work for the XDF format. I ended up going out and buying a set of decent quality, brand-name disks, and was able to create the full install set. The main reason I remember the incident is that was the last time that I ever installed using floppy - since then I've always either done CD or network installs. The actual images are stored on the CD in: \diskimgs\os2\35\ Anyways, good luck Nick. Hopefully you'll get it up and running!
Yeah, I knew where the images were, I just wonder which images do I use to do a CD install? Since I have XP on my PC with a working CD drive, I can't use the built in programs on the CD. Which images do I use to do a CD install? I want to know, because I bought a new drive off of ebay, and am just waiting for it to arrive. |
| Date: 28 Mar, 2006 on 01:36 |
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