Hard Disk to Hard Disk Installation 

Hints and tips 
                                 
Abstract 
If you have the CD-ROM version of OS/2 Warp and your CD-ROM drive is currently 
unsupported by OS/2; or if you have DOS installed on your system and it 
recognizes your CD-ROM, you can use the following procedure. 
                                 
Content 
Hard Disk to Hard Disk Installation

1. Start your system from DOS.

2. Make a temporary directory called TEMP; type MD TEMP and press Enter.

3. Type

XCOPY X:\os2image\*.* /S C:\TEMP and press Enter.

where:
X: is the CD-ROM drive, and
C: is a drive that contains enough disk space to place the images and OS/2.

Note: size = 35 or 525 and X: is the CD-ROM drive letter.

4. To create the installation diskette and diskette 1, type the following and 
   press Enter.

X:\makedsks

5. This creates an Installation Diskette, followed by Diskette 1. After the 
   new DISK1 is created, press Ctrl+Break.

Note: If you are installing OS/2 Warp 4, press Ctrl+Break after creating 
      DISK2 instead of DISK1.

6. Edit the CONFIG.SYS on the new DISK1. 

Change: SET OS2_SHELL=SYSINST2.EXE
To: SET OS2_SHELL=SYSINST2.EXE C:\TEMP

Save and Exit the file.

7. You can start the installation if you have the following:

- Installation Diskette
- DISK1 Diskette
- Diskette images in the TEMP directory on the hard disk

Insert the OS/2 Installation Diskette in drive A: and restart your system.

8. Insert DISK1 when prompted and continue the installation.


Historical Number: 5061745 

Document information
Product categories:
Software
Operating Systems
Operating Systems
Desktop, Workstation, and PC OS
OS/2 Warp

Base Operating System

Operating system(s): OS/2 

Software version: 3.0 , 4.0

Reference #: 1002175

IBM Group: Software Group

Modified date: 2002/08/23