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From: Conrad.Bullock@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Conrad Bullock)
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Subject: Re: making an os/2 5.25" install disk from a 3.5" disk
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Date: 4 Jun 91 23:19:32 GMT
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In article <91155.171811BP3@psuvm.psu.edu>, BP3@psuvm.psu.edu (Larry
Belan) writes:
|> From what I've discovered, converting a 3.5 install disk to a 5.25
|> WON'T work in a AT/386 clone......
|> 
|> The 3.5 version seems to look for the ABIOS that is loaded into the
|> PS/2 systems....My Hauppauge 386 clone chokes on them
|> constantly....I ended up requesting BOTH 5.25 and 3.5 versions of
|> OS/2.

I have had no problem booting the 3.5" version of OS/2 1.3 on a standard
386 clone with an AMI BIOS, exiting the Install program, running SYSINSTX
on a 5.25" disk, and transferring the files to 5.25". (That machine
certainly doesn't have an ABIOS!)

There is an old problem with very old Phoenix BIOSes - for some reason their
BIOS returns a submodel ID which indicates that they are PS/2s - perhaps
you have a similar problem?

Also, I have found that some Award BIOSes refuse to boot OS/2 off a 3.5"
drive.
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