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Date:	Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:40:25 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: SCOUG-Installation of os/2 2.1

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In <000f01c2616f$66c8e060$310a6ed8@stargate>, on 09/21/02
at 05:05 AM, "S. Gordon von Miller" said:

>In trying to install OS/2 2.1, the Install Log says:

It is very likely that installing a circa 1990 OS on modern hardware is
going to be difficult.

>On the floppy I replaced fdisk.com with fdisk.exe. It didn't work. I am
>using a W98, 800 meg Intel Celeron motherboard with 128 mb memory.

Keep in mind that v2.1 was designed to run well on 286's with 4MB of RAM.
:-)

>Is there a cdrom for less than $300?

You can buy copies of Warp4 for a reasonable price on the auction sites
all the time. eBay is probably the best. Warp3 Connect can be had for
even less, but it takes a bit more work to get installed on newish
hardware.

Steven

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