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Subject  :  USB Floppy
Author  :  Andyct5 ajones222@msn.com
Date  :  03 Mar, 2005 on 23:27
I have a laptop with no floppy drive except a usb, The problem is the system stops on the 2nd installation disk as it knocks out the usb floppy drive. Is there a way around this for installation

Subject  :  Re:USB Floppy
Author  :  Stuart srtgray@clara.net
Date  :  04 Mar, 2005 on 09:24
How about booting from the CD-ROM? Which version of OS/2 are you installing?

Stuart


Subject  :  Re:USB Floppy
Author  :  Andyct5 ajones222@msn.com
Date  :  04 Mar, 2005 on 12:17
I am using version Warp version 4 i have been trying to find a boot cd for this load.

Andy


Subject  :  Re:USB Floppy
Author  :  warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de
Date  :  04 Mar, 2005 on 14:10

Andyct5 (04 Mar, 2005 12:17):
I am using version Warp version 4 i have been trying to find a boot cd for this load.
Andy

Andy,

Warp 4 (at least the GA package) is not bootable from CD. This means, you'll either need to make install floppies or modify those you have to include a driver for the USB floppy. Unfortunately, Warp4 lacks major enhancements to the kernel and loader files in order to be able to deal with USB devices like this... what machine are we talking about - maybe an IBM Thinkpad? That could ease the situation a little.

As far as I remember, Warp4 still supports install via network, which means that you could prepare boot disks that make a connection to a different machine that holds the CD... but this requires you to have another running Warp machine...

The ideal solution to this would be to get yourself the Merlin Convenince Package ("MCP") of Warp4 - this CD is a bootable one. Maybe someone else here has more experience or a better approach...

Greetings
Thomas


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