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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / December 2007How to install OS/2 fixpack 15
How do I install base OS/2 Warp v4.0 as a guest OS if VPC requires fixpack 15? I can't apply fp15 until I install the base product, but the base product is not supported. Have you tried installing OS/2 yet? If so what error message did it give? I have installed OS/2 before under VPC a couple of years ago with the base and no Fix Packs. Went on fine. I have not installed OS/2 lately under VPC as I have not had the need but it should go on just fine. Please give it a try and see what happens. If it does bomb please report the errors here and we'll attempt to get you along. Worse case I'll have to dig out my OS/2 Warp 4 CDs. Bigger problem for me is finding the USB floppy drive :) On 12/6/07 1:41 AM, in article D8357328-F22D-4BEB-ABD3-676AC0F5867B@microsoft.com, "RobertG" > How do I install base OS/2 Warp v4.0 as a guest OS if VPC requires fixpack > 15? I can't apply fp15 until I install the base product, but the base > product is not supported. Oops, I forgot that VPC can use Floppy Drive Images so I don't even need a floppy drive on the Mac. I just need to make images on my Windows box and transfer them to my Mac. On 12/6/07 8:12 PM, in article C37E081E.26A8%fmh@copper.net, "Fred Horvat" <fmh@copper.net> wrote: > Have you tried installing OS/2 yet? If so what error message did it give? > I have installed OS/2 before under VPC a couple of years ago with the base [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> 15? I can't apply fp15 until I install the base product, but the base >> product is not supported. Problem solved. I was able to install the base product, then apply the fixpak. I was having various problems until I read that the CD version of the OS/2 Installation disk 1 should be used rather than my floppy version. Just copy it from the CD to your HD, then select "Capture floppy disk image" from the VPC Floppy menu as it prompts for each installation disk. I then applied the fixpak and upgraded video support to 1280x1024 using the GRADD97.ZIP located on Hobbes at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/video/gradd97.zip, with excellent instructions from Metztli's blog at http://metztli-it.com/blog/os2/. I found that once you install GRADD, you can select just about any monitor (I chose NEC Multisync) from the System properties page, which will give you higher resolutions to choose from than just 800x600. Ahh, the nostalgia. |
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