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From: wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
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Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 1.3 on mono system
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Date: 16 Apr 91 01:30:32 GMT
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In article <10471@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>In article <1991Apr15.192557.1719@serval.net.wsu.edu> wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) writes:
>>In article <25462@ttidca.TTI.COM> terence@ttidca.TTI.COM (Terence Davis) writes:
>>>A student in a class I'm teaching is attempting to install OS/2 1.3 on
>>>a machine that has only a [character-based adapter and] monochrome monitor.
>>I don't think it is really possible.  The only time I have seen OS/2 set up to 
>>run on a mono-only system, it was using the command shell from OS/2 1.0 [...]
>
>O.k., enlighten me on the ins and outs of the OS/2 1.3 install diskette.  It
>appears to me that it is character based, supports HPFS, can run OS/2 programs,
>...what else do we want here?
>
>If this is the case, all we need is some way to set up a fixed disk to boot
>like the install disk.  Hopefully we could work around the install program
>that normally pops up on startup.

Well, one thing you can do is simply take the protshell= line in the 
config.sys, and make it equal to the CMD.EXE command processor.

Normally when it is set up to use PM, it says something like:
PROTSHELL=c:\os2\pmshell.exe c:\os2\os2.ini c:\os2\ps2sys.ini c:\os2\cmd.exe

Change it so all that it says is:
PROTSHELL=c:\os2\cmd.exe

and the system will boot and come up with a command prompt, but I don't know 
how you would switch processes.

Wim.
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