Installing Win 3.11 W/ Warp

[Andrew Glass]

Harry: Here's what I would suggest. 1. Partition a large hard drive under OS/2
Boot Manager. Reserve about 128K for OS/2, Windows 3.11 and assorted OS/2
utilities. Format under HPFS as C: 2. Format about 32K for DOS 6.2. Make this
about 72K if you plan to run Windows 95. 3. Put all your common applications,
such as XyWrite on a large FAT drive, D: 4. Put Swapper.dat on a small (32K)
HPFS drive (E:) 5. If you have the memory (16MB minimum), go against
conventional wisdom and create a hefty RAM disk (F:). My own is 4MB. Put all
your temp files and pointers (like dr= in XyWrite) there. 6. Now load bare
Windows 3.11 on C: under DOS and copy it temporarily to D: Take out everything
but the essentials. You won't need any of the applets under OS/2 save, perhaps,
Write.Exe. You can really take a lot of fat out Windows if you are diligent. 7.
Now boot on the OS/2 side and move the two directories on D: to
c:\os2\mdos\winos2 and ..\system. Put the former in the config.sys path and the
latter in the dpath. Then load it all under Warp Selective Install and reboot.
8. The Windows Wfg comm driver doesn't work under OS/2 and will have to be
replaced with the 3.1 version or some fancy third-party clone. You can then run
all your Windows programs seamlessly on the desktop from one folder.