First post, by Caluser2000
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Spent a few hours today and last mucking around with two hdd that had OS/2 installed on them.
Number one was had OS/2 v3 Connect formatted as fat16 on a 2gig BigFoot ide hdd set originally to access a Novell Netware network via serial port. I promptly remove the Netware starting on boot up to prevent errors. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why the thing wasn't connecting to the router. I knew the cable was fine, nothing wrong with the router/modem/tcpip settings. I even updated the network/tcpip to the v4 server client. Tried static and dynamic addressing. After a couple of hours it dawned on me most 10Mbs ISA cards I've tried in the past have had this issue. The solution was to have an intermediary 10/100 switch to connect to a 1000/100/10 router.. It's not always the case but does happen so issue sorted.
Number two is a Quantum 3.5" ide 1.2gig hdd loaded with OS/2 v4 Adnvanced Server with the hdd formatted as 386HPFS. This has the Warp v3 interface and was set up as some sort of NAS server. Originally installed on an IBM Aptiva of some sort looking at the set up utilities, This thing was giving me all sorts of grief even though. I'd tried resetting using previous archived sessions. The problem was after the boot screen logo it would display half a page of text that was just jumbled crap and a message at the bottem to call your administrator and locked up. Similar to a Windows BSOD. I certainly didn't want to hunt the interweb fo a zillion hours trying to decipher the jumbled mess and I was the administrator.
In then in the end I decided try the Selective Install option. This and previous archived sessions are accessed when you press ctrl-alt-F1 when you see the OS/2 white boot blob top left side of the screen. Finaly we had had something OS/2 did it's thing basicly going though the install process with out needing any media. This sets the system up on vga and goes though country, cd drive selection and a few other settings and then scans the drive for installed programs and set them up for use on the desk top. A few minutes later we had a desktop with a few warnings saying things didn't load but that didn't matter. I had a check around and a few program links were broken but that's pretty common in this situation. Just to make sure every thing was ok I rebooted to make sure it booted to the desktop directly, except for some network config error from a previous session from lines in the config.sys file.
Now ctrl-alt-del and tell it to revert back to it's original install to get those links back and she's all hocky docky. A job well done.
Networking icons are all present, correct and seem to be usable, ready for more service. Alls happy like crappy in a little chappies nappy....
Here's a few shots:
Anyone else can feel free to record their own OS/2 exploits here if they wanted.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉