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Need advice setting up home network...
Customer-Driven Usability Warp Beta 2 features numerous usability enhancements, including: * Easy Installation: At set-up, users select "easy install" and .... or higher and Microsoft Windows 3.1 or 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups 3.10 or 3.11 installed in a partition visible to OS/2 during its installation process.

the pre-history to this problem
Therefore I am thinking of making it a dual boot system (W98/NT). Any problems with this? Currently I am only using 8GB of the 27GB available so space If it is, you will have to reduce the size of the primary partition and convert it to FAT). Otherwise it would be just as easy to install a CD-ROM drive and a

GalCiv 2 DEMO released!
NOSPAM.fi (Dominique Pivard) said: <- If he has Partition Magic, it's pretty easy to install Boot Manager <- and Warp _without_ deleting Win98: he just has Also, to repartition (resize or whatever) W98 FAT, you need at least Partition Magic v.4 and above. (too bad they stopped making native OS/2 since v.3.0).

Installing 2 XP HDD's
I am a source junkie and I have Linux on a 112Mb and a 161Mb partition (spread pretty evenly across). I admit, I haven't got much free space left, but I do have 30mb in .... Linux is close to making the web easy. All that needs to happen is for someone to release a client/server distribution with an easy install.

Buying New PC - Which is best for OS/2?
It would be a good idea to read up on cfdisk before making too many changes. It's been mentioned elsewhere, but Debian is not the simplest distro for a beginner to work with. If you're looking for a Linux distro that works like Windows, then you're best off looking at something like Mandrake. Dead easy to install,

newbie tomfoolery
Steve Withers sbww...@ibm.net comp os os2 mail-news ibmnet news admin A Quick and Easy Install of Souper v14 and Yarn v0.89 for OS/2 Scott Katzer has sent me several notes making some excellent suggestions and providing his own version of the procedures for uploading and downloading news - and several other

How to create Linux Partition on a WIN95 machine with NO ...
And you know, it would be easy, for any one of those people, who are making those one click installs out of Linux packages, for PC-BSD, to mnake a wrapper install for VMWARE. Then you would be able to install PC-BSD, and then, install VMWARE and move all your stuff over. If, you were to go, to PC-BSD, to program,

Need Advice on How to Set Up 2 Hard drives/OS's/etc.
It is a marketing "lie" making the hard drive seem bigger than it really is. If you go to My Computer/ C: drive/ Properties, it will give both values. When the Easy install program asked me how and what size to partition, it recognized the full capacity of the new drive, 13.2 gig in C, 13.4 gig in D,

PLEASE HELP - Warp and Linux!! Install blues
Win95 Upgrade will over-write the MBR without warning, thus making LILO unusable until you boot Linux from a floppy and re-install LILO. Getting Win95 to boot after upgrading I was trying to question if it is fair to attack Linux on installation grounds vs Win95. Win95 isn't terribly easy to install either.

Linux For the Masses and Other Popular Myths
Why can't you install directly from the dos partition? Or NFS? [snip] Unfortunately, as I discovered when RedHat didn't see my CDROM, So no drivers, no easy install. Now that I've got the basic packages installed, I'll be configuring the system to read my ZIP drive, and do future installs from there.

Linux/GW any pointers?
This morning I repartitioned the Maxtor as a primary DOS drive (two partitions - but the second partition is a 34MB Linux swap file - which was how the system used to be), formatted it, and re-installed Windows <sigh>. I then attempted OS/2 'Easy Install' over DOS/Windows. This seemed to work.

How to install SBS?
I would suggest as a safety measure that you get another hard drive to be devoted exclusively to linux -- I don't ever want to try to re-partition a drive with As for true linux distributions, I use RedHat (which is extremely easy to install), but am considering SuSE, which also looks pretty easy to install.

My views on openSUSE
In DOS I fdisk'ed one large (25890MB) partition and formatted it. I booted windows and checked that the new drive was there, it was. So much for the easy install. This is going to take some serious tweaking. Using the handy benchmark program in VirtualDub Setup I see that my "old" HD (not on the RAID) is only

NT4.0 Incompatible with Win95. Merlin's better
It's easy to install on these, because you can treat them like any other fixed disk. We skipped the swap partition, because this little Linux system wouldn't Prepare the System If you've just finished a fresh installation, you should be good to go. If, on the other hand, you're making an image of a hard disk

Using 20SC with //GS?
My other brother and his wife say Linux is nice, BUT, I started on Windows95 and it's easy to install and understand who to use. (I personally have a different feeling, but that's theirs). If making an option for 'Desktop' would clarify the matter, then by all means lets do it and maybe get some others to at least

partition questions
Peter Ammon p...@cornell.edu comp sys mac advocacy Edwin wrote: Peter Ammon <p...@cornell.edu> wrote in <3AC3C90C.6E3C2...@cornell.edu>: Edwin wrote: [snip] No, it's extremely easy to install the BeOS into a Windows partition as long as you're willing to put up with the limitations you get from not installing it in

My review of Xandros 3.0 Deluxe Edition
If so, what should it be set to - just one partition containing the number of blocks that the real partitions making it up have? What should the start and end .... This is not a wildly uncommon thing to do, but it's so easy to install with RAID now that I think most people just do that. Obviously I should try this

Warp (I must be nuts) Part 2
I would be mainly using it to browse the internet and running Skype, but I'm also curious about Linux as well and (making it more on-topic for this group) running MAME and ScummVM on it. How easy is it to install new software on the Eee? I've read that outside the GUI, it uses a command line interface - something

OT: One for the computer geeks. Linux & a boot menu
More than anything else, Ubuntu has come closest in making Linux ready for prime time. Ubuntu's most prominent backer is Mark Shuttleworth, a 34-year-old have bundled not just Linux, but a shelf full of other important programs, such as Web browsers and word processors, into a single easy-to-install package.

Need to make more room for windows partition
I'm still a bit careful about recommending it to non-geeky friends because of this, but I just put Mandrake 9.2 on a spare partition the other night to try it out, and it's really not that hard. Like - nice GUI interface, maybe a dozen simple questions if you go for the easy install option, and you're up and