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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 1.3 on mono system
Message-ID: <395.280ac0d5@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 13:16:05 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.013032.3021@serval.net.wsu.edu>, wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) writes:
> 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.
I have seen adverts for & reviews of multiuser systems built on top of os/2,
where you hook terminals up to a pc running os/2 a la mainframe environment.
You don't get graphics, just character mode apps (eg wp).  I don't know
how they do it, but presumably it's by replacing protshell with some
appropriate program.  That would do the trick, I would think.

		Adrian
> Wim.
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