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From: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 1.3 on mono system
Message-ID: <10471@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 00:35:02 GMT
References: <25462@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1991Apr15.192557.1719@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Reply-To: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
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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.

In fact, she could go ahead and boot with the install disk and go from there.
Seems like a pain, but if what she wants is worth it...

Also, can we start using "character-only" or something more descriptive than
"monochrome"?  I'm using my monochrome (gray scale) laptop now, and I have no
problems with PM.

I'm interested in this - Unix derivatives are being used in microcontrollers.
What about putting OS/2 in a VCR?  Tell me what you come up with.

Good luck!

--kyler