Chapter 2. Prerequisites

2.1 Hardware Requirements

You will need an Intel-based IBM-compatible Personal Computer with the components described in Table 1.


Table 1: Hardware Requirements

The CD-ROM drive is not really needed if you install through the network. However, in this documentation we assume that you are doing an installation from CD-ROM.

In addition, you should plan to add enough memory to prevent the server from swapping unnecessarily. You can get the memory requirements for each of the components from Table 2.

OS/2 Warp 4 provides functionality that performs well on a client workstation, but is not really required on a server. Please select only those components of Warp 4 that you think you will need on the server. For example, there is no need to install VoiceType on a server system.


Table 2: Memory Requirements

The following table illustrates the hard disk requirements for installing OS/2 Warp Server and OS/2 Warp 4 components.


Table 3: Hard Disk Requirements

2.2 Software requirements