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OS/2 WARP and THINKPAD 770

Started by W3HYM, 2007.06.27, 03:12:06

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W3HYM


On installing on big hard drives, I found OK with hard drives with upto 7.9 GB.


I obtained a 40 GB hard drive for Thinkpad 770Z.  I did successfully install WINDOWS NT.  But I don't want NT.


I tried eCS 1.2R, but get stuck on partition.  Always partition error. 

How do I get around partition error, for larger hard drive?  If I could partition, what is maximum size partition for eCS 1.2R?


David
W3HYM

W3HYM

For certain DOS programs, I made a C drive, with 496MB space.  This, I believe, forces OS2 to use FAT16.

I load OS2 (eCS) ON D DRIVE. 


My goal, make certain DOS programs work, using OS2, that otherwise seem to have problem withnot recognizing  total allocated drive space.

Remarks?

ddan

A good place to start this topic is:
http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,1042.0/

and then:
http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,1187.msg7943/

As you revive a year old posting, I'm going to be so rude as to suggest you read and heed the above, though certainly understand if you wind up still without joy. However, we here (I presume to speak) can only say the same things so many ways, and I think those two posts are comprehensive in sum.

Good luck. (And I'm fairly sure I and others will reply, BUT we'd appreciate you doing the above before asking again.)

ddan

#18
Oooh, sorry already, mistook the post at top of page for what may be a newer problem.

First, type of file system in OS/2 is selected HPFS or FAT, though may default to FAT in your given case.

Second, if you mean that you have an over 2G partition that DOS programs don't like the size of, you need 2GBFIX.ZIP from Hobbes (or my further patch to that which worked better in one specific case, 2GBFIXPA.ZIP).

http://hobbes2.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2gbfix.zip

RobertM

Hi W3HYM,

First, before you give up on the 40GB hard drive (and assuming you truly do not want NT on it), download DFSee and delete all partitions on the disk - then try installing OS/2 Warp/eCS again.

I have had issues with trying to install both Warp and eCS v1.2 or earlier on any drive that has an NT or XP partition - LVM doesnt properly handle certain NT partition types (I believe this has been resolved for v2 - but that wont help you... hence the DFSee suggestion, which has always worked for me).

After that, OS/2 will properly handle any necessary drive translation needed if the BIOS is unable to.

You still may also wish to upgrade the BIOS on the machine to the most recent (my 600 Series did not require this to go from it's original 8GB drive to a 12GB, then 40GB drive - but the 770 is a little older). On that particular Thinkpad line (700 Series), there may actually be multiple updaters (BIOS and other subsystems). Some are just driver patches... all are well documented. Read through and pick the one that updates the core BIOS.

That machine is definitely OS/2 capable though, so no worries in that respect.

Second, you can achieve the same results (for your DOS apps) by:
(1) Following ddan's post below (2GBFIX.ZIP/2GBFIXPA.ZIP)
(2) Make two partitions... one for OS/2, the second one UNDER 2GB in size for DOS.
- Format BOTH as HPFS
- Install most of OS/2 on Drive C (the first partition)
- Install the DOS and WinOS2 components on Drive D (the less than 2GB partition)
- Go into your config.sys and ensure that any TEMP dirs and such that DOS/WinOS2 might use are on Drive D

There is no need to format the DOS app partition as FAT16 - just make it under 2GB - or see #1 above.

Hope that helps,
Robert


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