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 Message 2546 
 mark lewis to Ben Ritchey 
 OS/2 in VM 
 29 Jan 15 14:24:09 
 
 On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Ben Ritchey wrote to Shawn Highfield:

 BR>> Is there a preferred OS/2 version to install in a VM under Wins
 BR>> 7? I have IBM OS/2 Warp cp2 v4.52 Boot disk and client disk ...
 BR>> no joy
 SH>   I'm running ECS as well, but other people have got warp4 running
 SH> under Virtualbox.  What VM are you using?

 BR> Virtual PC :) I have VMs for native MS-DOS, Debian and WinXP so
 BR> far. The boot disk I downloaded just crashes on install ... 

virtual pc... is that the one that m$ bought that used to do OS/2 very nicely
and they took specific steps to break it and prevent OS/2 from being usable??

 BR> where can I get a viable OS/2 bootable ISO?

AFAIK there isn't one other than i think eCS... all the previous ones had to
boot from floppy...



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