Hi all...new member.

I'm moving house and in the process of that I've uncovered my collection of old and wildly obsolete PCs. One of these is my old work machine from my 1st job back at the turn of the century. I bought it from the company when they upgraded. Its a Patriot PBK-450/1 running an AMD K6-2.

Back in the day it ran OS2 Warp and I have deceided to try to rebuild it back to how it was then.

To this end, I've obtained the ISOs for the Warp 4.51 'CP2 Refresh' edition. The PC was missing its HDD, so I fitted an 4Gb unit previously set up wityh MS Dos 6.2 on a 2Gb partition.

I started the installation yesterday evening, at about 8pm, and its still going, now 14hrs later!!!

It started fast enough, right up until the HDD formatting step, at which point it seemed to hang. I gave up after a couple of hours and went to bed!

Roll forward to this morning and the installation is still actively continuing. It obviously finished the disk formatting process and started coppying the OS's files from the installation CD to the c: drive. Its currently on 'diskette 8'. Every few minutes the file its currently coppying changes and the text in the upper window changes, so its definately working....just glacially slowly! The progress bar is incrementing somewhere between 5&10 percent per hour!

Note that in the initial part of the installation it didn't run the partitioning tool - I assume since there was a pre-existing DOS Primary partition in place. When asked to choose the format type, I selected HPFS and the 'Quick' format option.

Also, this is my 2nd installation attempt. My 1st attempt was with a different (512Mb) HDD, also with a pre-existing Dos partition. I gave up on this installation after waiting about an hour for the format to complete, thinking that the perhaps the HDD was faulty (I'm not so sure now). I assume that this implies that the slowness is not due the the HDD itself.

Finally, the current (4Gb) HDD didn't initially have a valid partition. The installation process opened the LVM tool, but I couldn't get it to work - the necessary menu (to allocate the new partition from the available free space) failed to be shown, so I couldn't complete the process (I was following an Online guide, so I knew what to expect). To get round the issue I booted from a MSDos6.2 boot floppy & used FDISK to create a Primary partition. Its this partition that the Warp installer accepted & formatted.

This is clearly not normal (!) but since it does seem to be progressing, I'm loath to interfere but I'd love to know why its this slow!

cheers

P