Installing OS/2 Warp Server on OS/2 Warp 4

3.1 Installation Phase I - VIO Installation

To install OS/2 Warp 4 on your system, follow the steps below:

Insert the OS/2 WARP 4 Installation diskette into the floppy drive.
Turn on your PC.

The system reads the data from diskette. After a while, the system asks you to remove the OS/2 Warp 4 Installation diskette.

Remove the OS/2 Warp 4 Installation diskette and insert the OS/2 Warp 4 diskette 1 into the diskette drive.
Press Enter.

The system reads the data from diskette. Then it asks you to remove the OS/2 Warp 4 diskette 1.

Remove the OS/2 Warp 4 diskette 1 and insert the OS/2 Warp 4 diskette 2 into the diskette drive.
Press Enter.

The system reads the data from diskette. If the CD-ROM is not in the CD-ROM drive, you will be asked to insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.

The system reads the data from CD-ROM and the OS/2 diskette 2.

When the Welcome screen appears, press Enter.

The system reads the data from CD-ROM.

Hint

Sometimes there is a problem with the mouse device:
SYS00049: The MOUSE$ device is not functioning.

If this message appears you should select the line:
Return error code to program

and press Enter.
Frequently, this must be done twice.

Hint
Sometimes there is a problem with the mouse device: SYS00049: The MOUSE$ device is not functioning. If this message appears you should select the line: Return error code to program and press Enter. Frequently, this must be done twice.

The screen Installing OS/2 Warp 4 now appears. It offers you a choice between two methods of installation:

Easy Installation is designed for the most users. The system will be installed on drive C: and most of the installation discussions will be made for you automatically.
Advanced Installation is designed for experienced technical users. Selecting this option, you can customize most features of the installation.

Select Advanced Installation.
Press Enter.

The panel Installation Drive Selection now appears. Here you can decide on which partition the system should be installed. Default is drive C: or any other partition that has been made installable.

You can either accept the drive and use the default drive or you can specify a different drive or partition. FDISK will then be started. FDISK enables you to create or delete partitions or logical drives on a hard disk. A hard disk is divided into partitions, which define the area of the hard disk that belongs to a particular operating system. Each hard disk can be divided into multiple primary partitions and an extended partition, or just one extended partition. Each extended partition can be further divided into one or more logical drive. However, the first hard disk must have a primary partition. If you create new partitions, then you must reboot the system and restart the installation process.

If you have no partition or you will use a different partition, select Specify a different drive or partition.
Press Enter.

The screen Modifying Partitions Warning appears.

Press Enter.

FDISK appears. If you do not already have a partition, you must create one following the steps below. If you do not have to repartition the hard disk, select the partition on which you want to install install OS/2 Warp 4 and mark it as installable.

Create a partition with size of 350 MB or more.
Set the status of the partition as Installable.
Press F3 for exit.
Press F3 for Save and Exit.

The Hard disk partitioning information screen from FDISK appears. If you created a new partition, you have to reboot your system and restart the installation process:

Remove the OS/2 Warp 4 Diskette 2.
Insert the OS/2 Warp 4 Installation diskette into the floppy drive.
Press Enter.

Then you have to restart the installation process. If you did not repartition the hard disk, you can continue with the instructions.

A screen asking you to format the installation partition appears. Do not format the partition if you already did a long format from the command prompt (see the note at the end of this section), otherwise:

Select to format the disk.

The Select the File System screen appears. You can choose between two fie systems: HPFS or FAT.

Select the High Performance File System.
Press Enter.

The system starts the installation. At the end of the installation you will be prompted to remove the diskette.

Remove the diskette from the diskette drive.
Press Enter.

The system will reboot and the WorkPlace Shell (WPS) will appear.

Note

The default OS/2 behavior on formating hard disks is to perform a quick format. That means that only essential file system areas such as the directory are overwritten. The advantage of this is that the format procedure takes much less time than a normal format.
However, sometimes it makes sense to use the normal or long format instead, because it formats the whole disk and performs a media test. Do this, for example, if you think that your hard disk is not really reliable or if you simply want the previous data on the hard disk to be formatted.
At this stage of the installation you may press F3 and go to an OS/2 command prompt. There you can type:
X:\PATH\FORMAT Y: /FS:HPFS /L

where the /L parameter causes a long format, the X: stands for the drive letter of the CD-ROM drive and Y: for the partition that you want to be formatted. The /FS:HPFS parameter forces the partition to be formatted with HPFS. Afterwards, type EXIT to come back to the Welcome screen and continue with the installation without formatting the partition again.

Note
The default OS/2 behavior on formating hard disks is to perform a quick format. That means that only essential file system areas such as the directory are overwritten. The advantage of this is that the format procedure takes much less time than a normal format. However, sometimes it makes sense to use the normal or long format instead, because it formats the whole disk and performs a media test. Do this, for example, if you think that your hard disk is not really reliable or if you simply want the previous data on the hard disk to be formatted. At this stage of the installation you may press F3 and go to an OS/2 command prompt. There you can type: X:\PATH\FORMAT Y: /FS:HPFS /L where the /L parameter causes a long format, the X: stands for the drive letter of the CD-ROM drive and Y: for the partition that you want to be formatted. The /FS:HPFS parameter forces the partition to be formatted with HPFS. Afterwards, type `EXIT` to come back to the Welcome screen and continue with the installation without formatting the partition again.

3.2 Installation Phase II - GUI Installation