semi-OT: Replacement OS/2 Install Media

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sun Oct 27 14:03:00 2002

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> > Now that I have a good machine to try installing OS/2 on (a PS/2 Model
> > 95), it seems that the install disks for my copy of OS/2 Warp 3 have
> > become re-magnitized in a patter to obscure the original data. Does
> > anyone have a copy of OS/2 that they can send me (Teledisk images or dd
> > images or an ISO is just fine with me) or know if I can talk to someone at
> > IBM to get new media to replace the failed old media?
>
> Better yet, you can make replacement disks straight off the Warp CD.
>
> The tools are in \diskimgs and the images themselves are in \diskimgs\os2
>
> You'll want disk0.dsk (boot) and disk1_cd.dsk (install for CD)

Well, if I owned the CD version that would probably work. However, I have
the floppy disk version and a good number of the install floppies are not
readable.

Pat

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