> Subject: SCOUG-General: Installing Warp w/ WPS
>
>
> Does any one know if it is possible to install Warp (3 or
> 4) w/o going through the GUI process? I want to install a
> command line only version of Warp w/ TCP/IP and NETBIOS
> networking, and get as minimal as possible.
>
> I realize I can change the PROTSHELL line in the CONFIG.SYS
> to CMD.EXE, but I wanted to know if it is possible to do an
> installation that doesn't install WPS at all. I'm also not
> sure if MPTS, PEER and TCP/IP can be installed w/o the WPS
> GUI process.
>
> I'm installing this on a 486/66 w/ only 8MB RAM, and a
> 240MB harddisk. The computer will only be used as a text
> based terminal whose main function is connecting to a UNIX
> box via telnet.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Patrick Tantraphol
> ptantra@pacbell.net
>
>
I would think that it should be possible to break out to the command line
during installation, and start doing stuff by hand - SYSINSTX, I think it's
called, to put the system on, and then copy the stuff from the installation
floppies to the hard disk after fdisking it.
Question: You've got enough there, why hold back?
Do the applications you have in mind take up close to 180 MB, where things
might start to get crowded?
My basic Warp 3 system takes up *part* of a 125 MB partition,
with applications and data storage space, maintenance/ultra conservative
installation in other partitions.
(Maybe things are different with WARP 4, I don't know.)
Something I experimented with a few months back was installing
a system on a bootable floppy with BOOTOS2, the IBM Employee Written
Software, and putting the bulk of the system other than just what
was needed to boot onto a parallel port Zip Disk.
This did not have WPS, but did have PMSHELL active as Presentation
Manager (taught me a lot about the distinctions between them),
and I installed another EWS, MSHELL, to allow me to access quickly
access application stuff from it's menu.
I thought it was a fun experiment, and gave me reason to think I
could still keep going if my hard disk goes belly up,
and I learned a lot from it.
It seems to me like MSHELL might be usefull to know how to run
in case WPS gets out of kilter for whatever reasons,
something to get by with.
Idea: partition the last 50 MB as a seperate logical partition.
This is enought for Warp 3.
do a fairly full install there. Put 1 MB for Boot manager at the front of
the drive and fdisk the first 200 MB to be useable.
Run BOOTOS2 from the second partion, and you will be able to
install any gradation from bare bones command line to full WPS
on the first 200 MB.
Once this is in place, you can clear out the last 50MB, (or however much
you make it), if needed, and put some applications or data storage space there,
or if you have Partition Magic or some similar tool, you could maybe
move the last 50 MB back in with first 200 to have only one partition.
I would strongly suggest though that you put in PMSHELL as
PROTSHELL, even if you don't put it in as RUNWORKPLACE
(where it acts as WPS), so that you will have multitasking
capabilities, which seem to be lost if it isn't at PROTSHELL
from my experience.
The START and DETACH commands don't seem to work otherwise.
Anyway, it seems to me that BOOTOS2 is likely part of the solution
to what you want to do.
Let me know if you have questions about any of this, good luck!
(I know I'm still wrestling with Fix Pack 35, and people have
been most generous with help. :-) )
Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II
(562) 862 - 4854 ext. '*'
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