In my Compaq LTE Elite laptops I have CF cards for the hard drive. The nice thing about that is I can backup and restore the entire partition in just a few seconds. So today I thought I would take a stab at OS2 Warp. My Compaq has a broken floppy and no cdrom so a local install isn't really possible. I used VirtualBox to install OS/2 Warp 4.51 directly to the CF drive (usb adapter) instead of installing to a virtual drive. After the install I popped that back into the Compaq and part way during boot it fails.
Before giving up I gave a stab using the same procedure with OS/2 3. This time it worked! I now have a working install of OS/2 3.0 on the laptop.
I have no ideas if there is any way to get the Orinoco card working, probably not but it is still pretty cool. All the drivers in the config.sys look pretty similar to dos drivers. I'm wondering if I should give these shoddy dos drivers a try tomorrow.
Check out the cool screenshot.
Before giving up I gave a stab using the same procedure with OS/2 3. This time it worked! I now have a working install of OS/2 3.0 on the laptop.
I have no ideas if there is any way to get the Orinoco card working, probably not but it is still pretty cool. All the drivers in the config.sys look pretty similar to dos drivers. I'm wondering if I should give these shoddy dos drivers a try tomorrow.
Check out the cool screenshot.