OS/2 2.0 2.0

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OS/2 2.0 2.0

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ibmpc5150

I've got original Retail normal disks of IBM OS/2 2.0 (5.25") (Not Upgrade version on WinWorld)

I figured out that the difference between Normal and Upgrade of OS/2 2.0 Retail is on SYSINST2.EXE on Disk 1.
They're each same disks except Disk 1.

wintddd

dude this os takes so long to install! that made me keep my pc and virtualbox open the entire night! @ibmpc5150 are the retail normal disks faster?

os2fan2

Look on the internet, for a program called os2hdd. You can copy all of the disks to a drive, and then install from that drive. I normally install a pcdos session in the first partition, and have copies of the stuff prepared by os2hdd there too,

edit the config.sys to set os2_shell=sysinst2.exe c:\os2v200 (the directory that you put all of the files os2hdd extracts.) It then installs without needing other cdroms.

ibmpc5150

@wintddd

Unfortunately I don't have original retail disks.

wintddd

@ibmpc5150 THEN WHY DID YOU SAY THAT IN THE COMMENTS?!

os2fan2

You don't need the retail disks. The disks on this site will do the trick. You put the images in a directory, and do `for %%f in (*.img) os2hdd %%f c:\os2v200`. You take the images 0 and 1, and edit config.sys.

For OS/2 without cdrom install, i use a DOS partition to transfer stuff in and out.

ibmpc5150

@wintddd

I bought IBM OS/2 2.0 Retail (Full) on eBay.
But I sold it after I dumped it.
(Only difference between Retail Full and Retail Upgrade is on Disk 1)

This is file list of Disk 1 for Retail Full.

 Volume in drive A is DISK 1     
 Directory of A:\

000000   BIO         2,560 03-30-92  12:00p
ABIOS    SYS           427 03-30-92  12:00p
ANSICALL DLL           438 03-30-92  12:00p
BKSCALLS DLL           401 03-30-92  12:00p
BMSCALLS DLL           398 03-30-92  12:00p
BVHINIT  DLL         9,203 03-30-92  12:00p
BVSCALLS DLL           454 03-30-92  12:00p
CLOCK01  SYS         3,666 03-30-92  12:00p
CLOCK02  SYS         3,710 03-30-92  12:00p
CMD      EXE        87,552 03-30-92  12:00p
CONFIG   SYS           585 03-30-92  12:00p
COUNTRY  SYS        24,604 03-30-92  12:00p
DOS      SYS         1,142 03-30-92  12:00p
DOSCALL1 DLL        87,884 03-30-92  12:00p
F80000   BIO         9,728 03-30-92  12:00p
F80100   BIO         8,704 03-30-92  12:00p
F80200   BIO         7,680 03-30-92  12:00p
F80402   BIO         5,120 03-30-92  12:00p
F80403   BIO         5,632 03-30-92  12:00p
F80404   BIO         5,632 03-30-92  12:00p
F80600   BIO         7,168 03-30-92  12:00p
F80700   BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
F80701   BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
F80702   BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
F80703   BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
F80704   BIO         1,024 03-30-92  12:00p
F80902   BIO         5,120 03-30-92  12:00p
F80903   BIO         5,632 03-30-92  12:00p
F80904   BIO         5,632 03-30-92  12:00p
F80A00   BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
F80A01   BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
F80A02   BIO         1,024 03-30-92  12:00p
F80C00   BIO         5,632 03-30-92  12:00p
F80D00   BIO         5,120 03-30-92  12:00p
F80D01   BIO         5,120 03-30-92  12:00p
F81000   BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
F81B00   BIO         4,096 03-30-92  12:00p
F88000   BIO         2,048 03-30-92  12:00p
FC0400   BIO        11,264 03-30-92  12:00p
FC0403   BIO         5,632 03-30-92  12:00p
FC0500   BIO         9,728 03-30-92  12:00p
FDISK    COM       104,759 03-30-92  12:00p
HARDERR  EXE        14,436 03-30-92  12:00p
HPFS     IFS       125,466 03-30-92  12:00p
IBM1FLPY ADD        24,026 03-30-92  12:00p
IBM1S506 ADD        12,908 03-30-92  12:00p
IBM2ADSK ADD        10,724 03-30-92  12:00p
IBM2FLPY ADD        12,997 03-30-92  12:00p
IBM2SCSI ADD        15,780 03-30-92  12:00p
IBMINT13 I13         9,564 03-30-92  12:00p
KBD01    SYS        29,013 03-30-92  12:00p
KBD02    SYS        25,429 03-30-92  12:00p
KBDCALLS DLL           858 03-30-92  12:00p
KEYBOARD DCP         5,177 03-30-92  12:00p
MOUCALLS DLL         1,010 03-30-92  12:00p
MOUSE    SYS        12,673 03-30-92  12:00p
MSG      DLL           477 03-30-92  12:00p
NAMPIPES DLL           711 03-30-92  12:00p
NLS      DLL           465 03-30-92  12:00p
NPXEMLTR DLL        25,280 03-30-92  12:00p
OS2CHAR  DLL        56,320 03-30-92  12:00p
OS2DASD  DMD        31,994 03-30-92  12:00p
OS2SCSI  DMD        10,462 03-30-92  12:00p
PRINT01  SYS         8,934 03-30-92  12:00p
PRINT02  SYS         7,994 03-30-92  12:00p
QUECALLS DLL        14,994 03-30-92  12:00p
SCREEN01 SYS         1,441 03-30-92  12:00p
SCREEN02 SYS         1,590 03-30-92  12:00p
SESMGR   DLL        31,256 03-30-92  12:00p
SIPANEL1 DLL        23,744 03-30-92  12:00p
SYSINST1 EXE         4,224 03-30-92  12:00p
SYSINST2 EXE       116,272 03-30-92  12:00p
SYSLEVEL OS2           169 03-30-92  12:00p
TESTCFG  SYS         3,216 03-30-92  12:00p
VIOCALLS DLL         1,825 03-30-92  12:00p
VTBL850  DCP        10,478 03-30-92  12:00p
W020100  BIO         3,072 03-30-92  12:00p
W020101  BIO         4,608 03-30-92  12:00p
W050000  BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
W050100  BIO         2,560 03-30-92  12:00p
W050101  BIO         3,072 03-30-92  12:00p
W060100  BIO         6,656 03-30-92  12:00p
W0F0000  BIO         1,536 03-30-92  12:00p
DISK     NUM            20 03-30-92  12:00p
       84 file(s)      1,130,238 bytes
                          68,096 bytes free

przenoszony

A quick test indicates that OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 also work in Virtual PC. For running 32-bit versions of OS/2, Virtual PC is a good choice, especially because guest additions improving the integration of OS/2 VMs with the host operating system are available.