Installing OS/2 Warp 4.52

thinkpadman

This evening I picked up one my laptops from the collection and decided to install OS/2.

It's an IBM ThinkPad 380ED I think from around 1997, with a Pentium 166MMX, 80MB RAM, 4.8GB HDD, CD-ROM, and TFT screen.

I downloaded (IBM OS2 Warp 4.52 (4.52.14.089_W4) from WinWorld and used the disk images onto real floppies. The initial boot disk and the subsequent Disk 1 were okay, but as soon as it requests for Disk 2 the floppy drive goes crazy and won't stop until I hit the power switch. It's as though it's attempting to find Disk 2 before even having a chance to eject Disk 1. I've tried a couple of times, and same effect.

SomeGuy

There was an earlier thread reporting a problem with that one: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=7199

It might be a beta, or corrupt or something. Try the other one. I'll add a note about that.

Aren't all of the 4.5 versions their server version? I thought the last version intended for desktops was 4.0 (plus a boatload of updates that I think bring it up to 4.5 internally)

Can anyone shed more light on exactly where these 4.5 versions came from?

thinkpadman

Yes something is amiss, not sure exactly what. I don't see the error message as shown in the other thread though, just the blue screen with the IBM logo requesting for Disk 2 which is really the third disk. I'm currently downloading the 086 copy and see if there's any difference.

I'm certain 4.52 was for client desktops as well.

lardon

OS/2 Warp 4.52 does have a client version. As far as I know, 089 is corrupted. Use the 086 copy, I've tried that before and it worked. From how I see it, 4.5 is basically version 4 with all of the updates applied to it.

thinkpadman

Yes that version certainly did the trick. During the System Configuration stage in setup, the exact laptop model was available to choose from so it should work well on it.