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Yes, I'm nostalgic. Before I started using Linux, I was using OS/2. I went to it from DOS/Win3.1.. Tcpblock for mac. skipped Windows95 altogether. OS/2 was the absolute best OS back in the day (as far as I'm concerned) and being a nostalgic (and sometimes bored) idiot, I decided to pull out my Warp 4 CDs and see if I could install it in Parallels. I succeeded.. to some extent. Now that I have OS/2 installed I can honestly say I have no idea what I would ever use it for anymore. I also couldn't get the (what should be) the simplest things installed (i.e. OS/2 builds of Firefox, even something as simple as lynx was crapping out on me). Granted, I didn't spend too much time tweaking it (I'm not that bored).

At any rate, here's a quick rundown of the things I had to do in order to make it work. Had to do a bit of googling to find all the bits, and this is what worked for me (note, this is Parallels on OS X)..Ok, here's the steps:

1. Copy the disk images from the Warp4 CD; in particular you want DISK0.DSK, DISK1-CD.DSK, and DISK2.DSK, in the /diskimgs/os2/35/ directory
   1. rename each of these files to a .dmg file (i.e. DISK0.DSK becomes disk0.dmg) -- make sure you can mount each of them in the Finder
   2. if you can mount them, unmount them and rename them to .fdd (i.e. disk0.dmg becomes disk0.fdd)
2. Create the new virtual machine, set the OS type to OS/2. Set the primary drive to be 2GB (I used 1.9GB to make sure OS/2 could read it)
3. Set the CD drive to /Library/Parallels/Tools/vmtools.iso
4. Set the floppy drive to ~/Desktop/disk0.fdd or wherever you saved your floppy disk images
5. Make sure the machine is set to boot from the floppy first, then boot the machine. You'll make your way through the three floppies; when the installer asks for the next floppy, just use *Devices->Floppy->Connect Image* and pick the disk it's asking for
6. When the installer wants the OS/2 CD inserted, do the same thing and use *Devices->CD/DVD-ROM 1>->[Drive name]* to have it use the physical CD-ROM (I tried with a disk image created via Disk Utility but it didn't work)
7. Use the advanced install and format your drive to HPFS
8. You'll probably have to reboot and go through all these steps again (stupid installer) after you create the filesystem and partition the drive
9. When you've got everything installed, use the *GENGRADD* SVGA driver for the graphics card
10. For the TCP/IP settings, when it comes to it, connect the floppy device to /Library/Parallels/Tools/vmtools.fdd to have it pull the network driver off the image; this should be the 'RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Adapter' (PCIND.OS2).
11. Once the install is complete, reboot, and use the vmware tools installer once you've brought OS/2 up in order to install the mouse driver (D:DRIVERSMOUSEOS2INSTALL.CMD)

Lore in these parts is that I ran OS/2 for a long time in college and management got wind of that and asked if I could get OS/2 up and running in VMWare. Which - I did (Didn't get around to installing the fix packs or getting the networking setup). I know VMWare can support NT 4. But that importing options are quite limited for both of these.

OS Type/version: set to IBM OS/2 resp. OS/2 Warp 4 - add a floppy controller if it isn't there yet and insert the DISK0.DSK image - set networking to Host-Only - set audio to SoundBlaster 16 if it isn't there yet - insert the OS2WARP4 CD image Start the VM and swap floppy images as requested Go for Easy Installation after reverting to DISK0.DSK (reboot). VMware Tools 54 IBM OS/2 Warp 4.5.2 55 インストールの手順 55 起動ディスクの作成 56 VMware Tools 56 IBM OS/2 Warp 4.0 57 インストールの手順 57 起動ディスクの作成 58 VMware Tools 58 Mac OS X Server 10.5 59 インストールの手順 59 VMware Tools 61 Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4 62 インストールの手順 62. Oct 30, 2018 Installing OS/2 Warp 4 on an SD Card Druaga1. Unsubscribe from Druaga1? OS/2 Warp 3 Installed on the IBM PC 340 - Duration: 57:05. Eznix 3,192 views. The true Halloween nightmare horror was making this video.

I must admit, I find it pretty neat that I have OS/2 running again. It looks awful, the UI is horrid, but it's the OS/2 I fondly remember (although I don't remember it looking quite this bad). At any rate, I spent a bit of time trying to download stuff off of hobbes to get installed and pretty much none of it worked, and I didn't have the patience to try and figure out what I needed to do to make it work. It was enough that I got it installed. I had tried once a few years ago in VMware and couldn't make it work.So, if nothing else, I spent an evening tinkering, did absolutely nothing productive, but now I can show it to my kid and make her thankful for good UIs like GNOME and Aqua.

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