What are you using OS/2 for? As much as I love dos , I've been intrigued by the idea of using virtual box or virtual PC to run the actual old DOS for some games that don't work quite right in DosBox. I've also toyed with building don't vintage PCs, but frankly I don't have the space!
Well, I have no real purpose yet, I must admit. Especially without any kind of internet connection I just can't use it for safer internet browsing.
I did lots of disk images of DOS games in the past, which I could try out there. However, I have no idea yet in how far I will succeed. I simply haven't tried it out yet.
I also did disk images of DOS version I have here - the earliest bundled with my early PCs, later ones bought on flea markets.
I have disk images of:
- MS DOS 6 (already installed in an VMK
- MS DOS 6.2 (unfortunately my virus scanner claimed the image of disk 1 to be infected by an "rootkit")
- IBM DOS 5.02 (already installed in an VM)
- Novell DOS 7 (not yet installed)
I should also have MS DOS 6.22 somewhere, or, rather the so-.called "STEP-UP" by Microsoft.
One of my next projects is to install BeOS. That will be really difficult, according to some web sites.
OS/2 V3 Warp really needs not much more than 2 GB of HD space, I think. So far it's not even 100 MB, fresh install.
The most difficult point in installing is to get those 2 disks which enable a very basic core of OS/2 to "see" the CD-ROM. But there do exist floppy-based versions of it out there, too (just saw some in Ebay).
As much as I love dos , I've been intrigued by the idea of using virtual box or virtual PC to run the actual old DOS for some games that don't work quite right in DosBox.
Virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft is actually kind of Freeware,
but I *strongly* suggest that you install Virtual PC 2004 FIRST, because it has some tools which the 2007 version doesn't have anymore … (The so-called "Virtual Machine Additions), I believe that they might important for working with DOS, for example.)
What I was unable to find yet is a fitting graphics driver for VPC (it should be an S3 driver, I've read).
Quoted from Microsoft :
Virtual PC Additions provides features that integrate a guest PC with the host PC. Virtual PC Additions includes the following features:
Drag-and-drop functionality
Folder sharing
Integrated mouse support
Joystick support
International keyboard support
DOS CD-ROM support
Optimized video driver support
Virtual PC Helper (including SyncTime functionality)
To use these features, you must install Virtual PC Additions on the guest PC after you install the operating system on the guest PC. Virtual PC Additions is available for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems:
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 98
Source :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824561/en-us