OS/2 and W2k on A31

sinip · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:07 pm

Just to let everybody know that I have sucessfully installed both W2K and OS/2 Warp 4 on Thinkpad A31. Everthing works in OS/2 except the modem. It even plays well with suspend/resume.

Batuta · **Joined:** Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:55 pm **Posts:** 399

Bob Collins · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:05 pm

Not to put too keen an edge on it, but sinip put *BOTH* Windows 2000 and OS/2 Warp 4 on the Thinkpad, not just WSeB as your message indicates you did. ;-)

I think most would suggest "so what?", however I suggest it is great to read all this OS/2 stuff still going on. I am looking forward to some time to try a network install of Warp onto my Thinkpad, as I do not currently have a docking station, and would prefer the trial of fire, as it were, for a netwrok install....

Batuta · **Joined:** Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:55 pm **Posts:** 399

sinip · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:40 pm

Batuta wrote:

Not to detract from your achievement sinip, but I got WSeB running on an A31p already 2 years ago :-)

As a matter of fact, I even got the DVD burner and security features working.

Well, it's not like I expect a medal or something :-)

but for me, it was always PITA to put both Win and OS/2 on one HDD, on non-LVM system. So I thought that if somebody experience some problems during the attempt I could offer some assistance.
Anyway, this A31 has only CD ROM, so I presume that you installed DVD burner later or it came like that?

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Ted_E · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:16 pm

sinip wrote:

Just to let everybody know that I have sucessfully installed both W2K and OS/2 Warp 4 on Thinkpad A31. Everthing works in OS/2 except the modem. It even plays well with suspend/resume.

I have Boot Manager, W2K and eCS 1.2 on a T23 but have not got suspend/resume to work well. What did you do? I don't know if it will work on a T23 but there's only one way to find out. :-)

sinip · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:06 pm

Ted_E wrote:

sinip wrote:

Just to let everybody know that I have sucessfully installed both W2K and OS/2 Warp 4 on Thinkpad A31. Everthing works in OS/2 except the modem. It even plays well with suspend/resume.

I have Boot Manager, W2K and eCS 1.2 on a T23 but have not got suspend/resume to work well. What did you do? I don't know if it will work on a T23 but there's only one way to find out. :-)

I installed latest Speedstep package from IBM (it is intended for MCP and won't install automaticaly on Warp 4 but after copying the files manually it didn't complain). Let me know if you can't find the file.

Batuta · **Joined:** Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:55 pm **Posts:** 399

madodel · **Joined:** Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:54 pm **Posts:** 34

Batuta wrote:

Well Ted_E, you need the APM support installed under OS/2 as well as the Thinkpad system driver (APM.SYS + AODBSMD.SYS).
To get FULL suspend to work (memory dump to disk), you also need to create a dump file (as placeholder) with the corresponding DOS utility on a FAT partition (not really practicable if you got 2GB memory, such as I do).
W/o that, you still get suspend to work, just w/o memory dump. meaning your RAM does not get switched off during "suspend" and thus still uses up (some) battery juice.

I was wondering how suspend worked so well on my T42p without my doing anything. I take it windoze just maintains it in RAM as well since there is only the NTFS partition and a FAt32 IBM_Service partition on the drive, so if the battery drains complately its lost.

So OS/2 can be setup to save the RAM image to disk and restore from it? Are there instructions on how to do this somewhere? Or is this just for older TPs?

Mark

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