Re: Warp

[Robert Holmgren]

 >Do you mean I have to wipe Windows entirely
 >off my disk (after copying it to something--in my case to a
 >Bernoulli drive), then set up WARP for HPFS and copy Windows
 >back on top of HPFS?

 Yup.

 AG> you can, if you like, port the 2.11 portion of Windows over into
 AG> Warp. That makes it even more of a bargain since the OS/2 Windows
 AG> code is optimized for OS/2.

 HB>What the heck does that mean?

 It means that "Warp" doesn't contain Windows as part of the package IBM issued
last month. Windows will be included in a Warpish package due this month. But
so far anyway, the only "Warp" anyone knows doesn't have Windows included. It
is expected that you will provide a copy of M$ Windows if you want to run
Windows apps. Win-OS/2 from earlier versions of OS/2 does not work
outta-da-box with Warp; but there are relatively simple workarounds for this
"incompatibility", i.e. you can get them to work together.

 >Does 2.11 have its own version of Windows within itself?

 Yup.

 >Have you tried this?

 Nope.

 >And is "port" here a fancy way of saying "copy"?

 A bit more than copy. You're taking an elaborate system designed to work
under one OS, and installing it under a different OS. That's a port.

 Are you actually going to run an all-HPFS system, or what? Because I'll bet
all this stuff is covered in the Manual. If you buy an OS/2 which contains
Win-OS/2, the issue is moot: everything (including Win-OS/2) can be installed
to FAT or HPFS, at your option. But if you are using OS/2 with a version of
Windows published by Microsoft -- the so-called "OS/2 for Windows", which is
admittedly confusing nomenclature, properly it should be "OS/2 without Windows
included in the package"! -- then, of course, the default assumption is that
Windows already resides on your machine. You installed Windows under DOS
before you ever even heard about OS/2. Now, M$ Windows does not know from
nothing about HPFS. It will only install to a FAT hard disk. No problem, if
you want to run OS/2 under HPFS, just create an HPFS partition for OS/2, and
keep Windows in the FAT partition, and OS/2 will still control Windows just
fine because OS/2 can run both kinds of file systems concurrently. But then
the question arises, what if you want to run M$ Windows on an all-HPFS system?
That's when you have to install M$ Windows to FAT, ZIP it up, then reformat
your hard disk HPFS, install OS/2, then unzip Windows onto the HPFS drive.
Many many many people have done it.