Warp Installation Notes v1.1.2

By Frank McKenney

About The Warp Installation Notes

Caveat: the material included has been compiled from verbal comments, e-mail messages posted in public locations (e.g. the Internet NewsGroups), the occasional manual, and my own interpretations of all of the above. I do not have access to all (or even most) of the equipment and software described (I had to sell my favorite 486DX 33&1/3 with 6.7 Mb RAM, two 4300 Baud serial ports, an ESDI adapter using IRQ1, and a 108 Mb RLL+ drive), so I am unable to personally verify all of its content. While I have tried to avoid excessive jargon whereever possible, describing an OS/2 installation is a technical topic and requires a certain number of technical terms. I also make the occasional typographic eror...

...and the occasional TELEPHONE NUMBER ERROR: Hints v1.1.2 is being sent out specifically because the telephone number I supplied for the Aztech BBS in Area code (501) is NOT repeat NOT the Aztech BBS, but a (now harassed) Southwestern Bell customer in Arkansas who has been receiving odd calls that abruptly hang up. PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS NUMBER. If I obtain a correct number I will include it in v1.2.

In all cases, you should use your own best judgement as to which of the following material applies to your situation. Corrections, more detailed explanations, and additional material will be welcomed. If, for example, you see a BBS telephone number mentioned but know of an FTP site for the same information, please let me know. We're all in this together.

Note re changes: I started marking the 1.1 changes with a vertical bar at the left margin. This would have added a nice touch, but it turned out to be impractical. When I finally realized that I'd need to mark more than 75% of the document, I went back and removed them. Maybe the changes for v1.2 won't be as extensive (;-).

Note re v1.11 release: Short form: oops! Long form: I posted Hints v1.1 without realizing that I had not completed revision on a section about pausing CONFIG.SYS processing so that device driver messages could be seen. As it turns out, the technique I had used under 2.1 and 2.11 for doing this turned out (a) to be narrower in scope that I had realized, and (b) to work differently under Warp. I have removed the text, but the need for such a facility is still there. Suggestions for a workable technique would be welcomed.

One of the changes I hope to make for v1.2 is to break out a separate section for new drivers. As many of you have noted, there are a large number of problems related to drivers, and it might be easier to simply include a section devoted to driver-related problems.

Let me mention that my purpose in putting this document together was to get users operational under Warp as soon, and as easily, as possible. Consequently, I'm not concerned with making sure I have the description and location of the absolutely latest and greatest driver for the IBM XVXGA adapter. I'm perfectly willing to leave that task to others.

What I do want is to be able to provide driver information for driver-related problems that might prevent an installation or cause serious performance problems under Warp. I'll settle for any driver that will let the user successfully install and run without significant errors and with reasonable performance.

Changes, additions, and comments should be directed to rrs0059@ibm.net or mailed to:

                             Frank McKenney
                           McKenney Associates
                          3464 Northview Place
                        Richmond, Virginia  23225
                             (804) 320-4887

General Hints, Suggestions, and Warnings

==Read the Documentation==
==Hardware-Specific Information==
==Warnings==
==Beta-Testers==
==Have Someone To Talk To== 

The Notes...

         o Unable to find CD-ROM during install
         o Various odd symptoms with PTI IDE drive
         o Install from CD-ROM locks up
         o No sound from PAS-16
         o Unable to create OS/2 bootable partition
         o Hard Drives using OnTrack Disk Manager
         o Mouse pointer displaced - Dell
         o OS/2 hangs after installation
         o System stops booting because of problem with COUNTRY.SYS
         o Problems recognising various CD-ROM drives
         o Message - HDD Controller Failure *
         o Installation of Warp fails with SYS3175 typically around diskette 1 *
         o #9GXEPRO - problems with display esp. with Windows sessions *
         o Canon Bubblejet - unable to find printer drivers *
         o Boot message - "line ?? is unrecognizable" following MM uninstall *
         o Trap 0003 trying to use certain types of CD-ROM *
         o Warp Installation from CD fails - no matching driver found *
         o Problems using MS Windows communications programs *
         o Printer does not print *
         o Floppy drive does not recognize when a diskette is replaced *
         o Performance - Warp boot seems to take longer than expected *
         o NCR SCSI adapter not recognised *
         o MIRO 20SD - S3 864 - unable to use higher screen resolutions *
         o Various OS/2 Error Messages *