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My AMD Ryzen 5 PC is hanging when booting the ArcaOS installer from a USB DVD drive, so I’ve moved on to trying a bootable USB flash instead. I’m following the steps here. The install guide says to use: \dfsanwin.exe -q run aosboot.dfs … to create the USB, but this is prompting me to write …
I did this install on a VMware ESXi VM a while back and never shared it. Unfortunately I didn’t capture what the VM settings were, but were probably similar to what I used for Warp 4 which you can find here. Welcome to OS/2 Warp 3 Connect!
Installers with floppy disk boot images require swapping the disk images which is tedious. Find ISO images with 1 boot CDROM ISO and 1 install CDROM ISO – this is a much easier approach for installing. The Boot ISO and English ISO from this collection on archive.org work well. Create a VM with: 1 vCPU …
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OS/2 was technically far superior than any other desktop OS available at it’s time. The fact that it continued to be used in ATMs by banks, ticket machines, voice mails systems, PABXs and various other systems for years after IBM sales and support was discontinued says everything. Even though it was discontinued by IBM in 2006, …