OS/2 on pentium class machines.

[Caluser2000]

There seems a bit of interest from a few in getting OS/2 loaded on P1 class machines. I'll start by linking to a few sites I found very useful in the past and may assist some folk here.

http://www.os2.org.nz/topics/installingos2.htm

http://www.blondeguy.com/os2map.html

http://asavage.dyndns.org/OS2/Warp4Install/Warp4Install.html

All are fairly no nonsense and to the point.

 

[Unknown_K]

I have OS/2 warp 3 on P1 era Thinkpads, not that big of a deal.

 

[Caluser2000]

I couldn't agree more.

Just been going through a cdr I made around a decade ago with a lot of useful OS/2 stuff on it and copying the good files to a hdd before the cd goes completely bad. Got most of it off ok. Bit of a wonder down memory lane.

Of course most of it is available at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/

 

[Chuck(G)]

http://www.os2site.com/
http://www.os2bbs.com/

Have been very useful to me.

 

[NeXT]

I ran into problems with the 365XD and Warp 3 where the video driver didn't work.

 

[barythrin]

I'm trying to remember the name of the group, all I recall is they were a .org and I thought they just went as "os2-ecs" although they may have changed to os2voice or something else over the years. Either way they did have a pretty nice support group and also an IRC channel if you ever get bored they seemed to have some pretty competent members hang out there willing to help those in need.

 

[Caluser2000]

http://www.os2world.com/

 

[Chromedome45]

Warp 3 actually runs very well on a Pentium system. I use a 233MMX with 64Meg RAM and it flat out flies. I use a Matrox millenium PCI video card and a SB16 with it. Matrox was one of the few who kept updating there OS/2 drivers all the way up to the G450 board. Also Warp 4 does well too.