OS/2 install floppies without Floppy Drive

[FatRakoon]

I want to put OS/2 back onto an old LapTop.

The trouble is, the LapTop has no Floppy Drive.

Now the Installation CDs work, by creating a set of 4 FloppyDisks, which I then insert into the PC in order 1-4 and then it will carry on with the files from the CD.

The thing is that I cant?

Is there any way I can make up a bootable installation CD for OS/2 Warp or not?

I have Warp 4.0 & 4.5

Thanks.

 

[FatRakoon]

There is no way to do OS/2 CDs on Barts site as far as I can see.

I think AudioLabs ide ais the most likely but again, not going to happen because the LapTop wont boot from USB.

 

[FatRakoon]

I want to also have the Finished Floppy & CD in one...

As you may or may not know, you need 4 Floppies to do this, plus the 450 or so MB CD, so having the lot in one bootable CD is really the end aim.

I have tried to do a partial install on one PC and move it over but this does not seem to work very well? Yes OS2 will search for hardware, but doing this has failed every time I tried it.

Why?

Because OS/2 is a very underestimated OS, and it has some very nice and surprisingly powerful networking guts, that I can access with some other older computers, that Windows does not do...

Or, in a more immediate way, I dont have Ethernet on my Atari at this time, and so, I am using SLIP through to the OS/2 LapTop, which in turn is conected to the internet and this will give my Atari Internat access... Bit crappy I know, but hey... Why not?

 

[FatRakoon]

will look through my archives to see if there was ever any undocumented way around this.

Hmmm... Think about that one for a minute!!!!

Anyway, Seriously, OS2 as you will know was certainly superior to Windows in many many many ways, it was faster and much mor epowerful, not to mention its stability was something that Microsoft only managed properly with NT5 and even then it had, shall we just say... "Undocumented Features".

Sure, its showing its age now, and has done for the last decade+ but its stilla great OS to use and as I need it for a specific task that Windows cannot do, then it is also the best OS for me at this moment ( Linux also does it too, but I want OS2 )

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OK - UPDATE TIME :-

I have however thrown OS/2 onto my daughters LapTop now

Its a Celeron 466 with 160MB ( Annoyingly its also faster than my own Celeron 800 with 256MB by almost double too! ) and thats got a perfect working Floppy and CDROM and we have swapped for a bit.

Last time I networked OS2 to MiNT on my Atari, I spent the best part of 3 days to get it right, but I had them seeing "Something" in just a few minutes.

This time round its bee na chore to say the least... The Atari is now able to browse, but annoyingly, its deathly slow ( Much like the old BBS speeds ) and I think thats actually down to some config or other in the OS/2 LapTop, but not found anythign obvious yet.

Important thing though is that its doing it.

I think I will splash out on a LapTop for myself in the next couple of weeks... I wonder if I can install OS/2 Warp 4 onto a Dual Core AMD X2 / Conroe with 2GB and a widescreen Laptop???? - just to get my 20 year old Atari onto the internet ... For a laugh!

Now, thats just got to be cool to do for kicks if nothign else???

Later.

 

[FatRakoon]

Do you know...

While VMWARE wont cure the whole idea of using a LapTop as a file/internet server for my Atari Falcon, it will at least let us know WTF it will do on Dual core setup???

I know that in theory, it will work because I have seen it run on a Dual Xeon 400Mhz PC from waaaaayyyyy back in time...

Doubt it will use both cores mind you?

I will let you know shortly... I have only just wiped Vista64 off this machine and gone back to XP64 ( and now my PC runs like a dream again ) and I have not yet installed VMWARE... So...

Seriously though, the widescree / Dualcore stuff was only a silly thought more than anything... I might just buy an el-cheapo LapTop but the prices are so tasty these days are they not?