VirusVox
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Hello everyone!
Recently I've acquired a beautiful big box copy of OS/2 Warp on 3.5" disks and I'm attempting to test out the disks by installing the Operating System with them.
My test system is a Dell OptiPlex XL 575 with a Pentium 75 inside. I usually insert physical hard drives into all of my systems as a personal preference, but in this case the system is very slim and I have no room to mount one. Therefore I tried to utilize my XT-IDE Rev2 CF adapter in its place, as I've heard they're really handy and I've yet to use it in a build.
I plopped it into the system and got things up and running and installed MS-DOS 6.22 onto a 1GB SanDisk Ultra CF card and then moved to install OS/2 Warp. The initial disk worked fine and asked me to insert disk one. After inserting disk one and receiving the splash screen it halted the system, posting a "OS/2 cannot operate your hard disk or diskette drive." error.
I then moved to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11 which installed just fine onto the CF card, and then I went to try again out of curiosity. Again I'm met with the same error trying to install OS/2.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I might try, or on why this doesn't happen to work?
Install disk one appears perfectly readable and my diskette drive is acting normal so I'm disinclined to believe there's anything physically wrong here.
Recently I've acquired a beautiful big box copy of OS/2 Warp on 3.5" disks and I'm attempting to test out the disks by installing the Operating System with them.
My test system is a Dell OptiPlex XL 575 with a Pentium 75 inside. I usually insert physical hard drives into all of my systems as a personal preference, but in this case the system is very slim and I have no room to mount one. Therefore I tried to utilize my XT-IDE Rev2 CF adapter in its place, as I've heard they're really handy and I've yet to use it in a build.
I plopped it into the system and got things up and running and installed MS-DOS 6.22 onto a 1GB SanDisk Ultra CF card and then moved to install OS/2 Warp. The initial disk worked fine and asked me to insert disk one. After inserting disk one and receiving the splash screen it halted the system, posting a "OS/2 cannot operate your hard disk or diskette drive." error.
I then moved to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11 which installed just fine onto the CF card, and then I went to try again out of curiosity. Again I'm met with the same error trying to install OS/2.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I might try, or on why this doesn't happen to work?
Install disk one appears perfectly readable and my diskette drive is acting normal so I'm disinclined to believe there's anything physically wrong here.