geoffro@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi, I have quite a few problems with OS/2 so I'll try to be brief.
>
> It all started when I tried to put OS/2 on my newly aquired gateway
> 650 essential:
> 4.1 gb hd
> 64 mg ram
> pentium III 650
> ATAPI cdrom drive
>
> I thought that OS/2 would like this configuration. I was sadly
> mistaken.
> The first few boots it froze on disk 1 (the 2nd one) at the splash
> screen.
> After many restarts I managed to get to fdisk but it wouldn't
> recognise my hard drive saying that the starting track or something
> was corrupted and I was shown only 63 mb of space. I partitioned my hd
> with 2 fat16 segments. It worked for a time. Everything was horribly
> slow. I left it on overnight and it wasn't finished. It went read a
> little bit of data and spend 2 mins writing it to the hd. I then used
> the new updated setup disks with the new file that is meant to solve
> this problem, but I keep getting the message: S/2 cannot read the hard
> drive. Please restart or something.
> Is installing OS/2 a lost cause for me?
>

Are you using a vanilla install. At a minimum you should get updated
drivers for a large HD.

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:28:54 -0800, geoffro wrote:

> Hi, I have quite a few problems with OS/2 so I'll try to be brief.
>
> It all started when I tried to put OS/2 on my newly aquired gateway
> 650 essential:
> 4.1 gb hd
> 64 mg ram
> pentium III 650
> ATAPI cdrom drive
>
> I thought that OS/2 would like this configuration. I was sadly
> mistaken.
> The first few boots it froze on disk 1 (the 2nd one) at the splash
> screen.
> After many restarts I managed to get to fdisk but it wouldn't
> recognise my hard drive saying that the starting track or something
> was corrupted and I was shown only 63 mb of space. I partitioned my hd
> with 2 fat16 segments. It worked for a time. Everything was horribly
> slow. I left it on overnight and it wasn't finished. It went read a
> little bit of data and spend 2 mins writing it to the hd. I then used
> the new updated setup disks with the new file that is meant to solve
> this problem, but I keep getting the message: S/2 cannot read the hard
> drive. Please restart or something.
> Is installing OS/2 a lost cause for me?

What partitions exist on the disk? If any were created by Win or Linux,
they will probably screw up your partition table.

What does the BIOS show for the disk size and mapping (NORMAL,LBA, LARGE)?
I normally set mine to LBA by default.




--
Will Honea

Well, the partition that did work was created by dos fdisk and I havnt
been able to get my hands on a good tool like partition magic. Yes it
is set to LBA.

Well, the partition that did work was created by dos fdisk and I havnt
been able to get my hands on a good tool like partition magic. Yes it
is set to LBA.

Well, the partition that did work was created by dos fdisk and I havnt
been able to get my hands on a good tool like partition magic. Yes it
is set to LBA.

On 29 Jan 2007 14:28:54 -0800, geoffro@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I have quite a few problems with OS/2 so I'll try to be brief.
>
> It all started when I tried to put OS/2 on my newly aquired gateway
> 650 essential:
> 4.1 gb hd
> 64 mg ram
> pentium III 650
> ATAPI cdrom drive

You've modified the install floppies to use the updated IDE drivers,
right? It certainly won't work unless you've done that...

--
Alex Taylor
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex

Remove hat to reply (reply-to address).

http://www.warpdoctor.org/downloads.html

And, it's possible the "newly acquired" computer has a bad hard drive,
although it sounds like the installation diskettes aren't working for your
configuration.

I'm sending some additional information to your email address.


geoffro@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I have quite a few problems with OS/2 so I'll try to be brief.
>
> It all started when I tried to put OS/2 on my newly aquired gateway
> 650 essential:
> 4.1 gb hd
> 64 mg ram
> pentium III 650
> ATAPI cdrom drive
>
> I thought that OS/2 would like this configuration. I was sadly
> mistaken.
> The first few boots it froze on disk 1 (the 2nd one) at the splash
> screen.
> After many restarts I managed to get to fdisk but it wouldn't
> recognise my hard drive saying that the starting track or something
> was corrupted and I was shown only 63 mb of space. I partitioned my hd
> with 2 fat16 segments. It worked for a time. Everything was horribly
> slow. I left it on overnight and it wasn't finished. It went read a
> little bit of data and spend 2 mins writing it to the hd. I then used
> the new updated setup disks with the new file that is meant to solve
> this problem, but I keep getting the message: S/2 cannot read the hard
> drive. Please restart or something.
> Is installing OS/2 a lost cause for me?
>