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From: HernsModestil@Technologist.com                    05-Sep-99 02:34:12
  To: All                                               05-Sep-99 05:27:07
Subj: Re: Install Problem- Warp 3 and 10gig Drive

From: HernsModestil@Technologist.com

In <7puh0v$54j$1@schbbs.mot.com>, on 08/24/99 
   at 12:25 PM, "M Lombana" <m_lombana<delete_me_to_reply>@yahoo.com>
said:

>If this has been covered before, I'm sorry, however this one has got me
>beat and I need a solution fast. I've been attempting to install Os2 Warp
>for 2 days now in the following configuration.

>Abit Motherboard - 128MB - Pii 400mHz - Diamond Viper 550 video IBM 10
>Gig drive and 4 partitions setup as follows:

>Primary P1- DOS 500 Meg (Intended for Dos 6 and Os2)
>Primary P2- NTFS 1g (Intended for NT)
>Primary P3- Fat32 1g (Intended for 98)
>P4 (Extended) Not formatted at this time will be for various uses.

>During install here is the situation. I load the 1st Os2 disk and the
>install begins, when asked for the 2nd disk the system gets to FDISK and
>reports that the drives are un-usable and cannot be created or installed
>to. I'm sure this is familiar to some.

>The next step was to download the IBM1s506 updates. It calls for 3 files
>to be copied to disk 1 however there is not enough room for this
>operation. In an attempt to get these files to load I was forced to
>remove the OS2LOGO file and the TEDIT Help file. This gave me the room on
>the disk and I was able to get to the FDISK program with success and
>proper drive sizes.

>Finally the system attempted to install to the 1st partition however this
>time rather than start the CD rom drive into gear, it continues to ask me
>for Floppys. I did change the Config.sys statement to set
>COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 as well as try =0 and remove it all together. In no case
>has this worked.

>Can someone please tell me what to do. I need to get this OS on the drive
>to run some software that will only run in the OS 2 environment.

>Please advise.
>Thanks, Miguel

>

=The classic pc bios limit for primary partitions if 4.
=Here extended partition is counted as one. And also OS/2
=bootmanager partition is counted for one. This partition
=plan will count for five. A working idea would be to
=install nt4 to logical drive in the extended partition
=instead of primary partition.
=
=Naturally, there are some 'advanced' bootmanagers,
=
=Osmo



Try  System Commander, It does not require a primary partition and works
well.  I've not upgraded my version sice I don't need FAT32 support.
 
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From: ron.beernink@paradise.net.nz                      06-Sep-99 20:01:22
  To: All                                               06-Sep-99 10:36:18
Subj: Limitation to no. of OS/2 processes?

From: "Ron Beernink" <ron.beernink@paradise.net.nz>

Does anyone know of an OS/2 (Warp Server) limitation that would explain why
some of our systems fail when they get to around 150-160 processes?

Regards

Ron Beernink
Technical Designer
Electronic Business
NZ Post
Wellington, New Zealand


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From: J.vandenHorn@fibre.a2000.nl                       06-Sep-99 12:00:27
  To: All                                               06-Sep-99 14:34:06
Subj: Re: Limitation to no. of OS/2 processes?

From: J.vandenHorn@fibre.a2000.nl (Jeroen van den Horn)

Ron,

Check your 'THREADS=xxx' statement in the CONFIG.SYS. By default this 
is set to 1024 and specifies the number of thread slots the kernel 
reserves at IPL. Every process has at least one thread, but most OS/2 
apps have many many more. Probably you're hitting the 1024 threads by 
starting that many processes.

Jeroen

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 08:01:45, "Ron Beernink" 
<ron.beernink@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> Does anyone know of an OS/2 (Warp Server) limitation that would explain why
> some of our systems fail when they get to around 150-160 processes?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ron Beernink
> Technical Designer
> Electronic Business
> NZ Post
> Wellington, New Zealand
> 
> 


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From: van.enckevort@hccnet.nl                           06-Sep-99 11:44:19
  To: All                                               06-Sep-99 14:34:06
Subj: Re: Limitation to no. of OS/2 processes?

From: "D.J. van Enckevort" <van.enckevort@hccnet.nl>

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:01:45 +1200, Ron Beernink wrote:

>Does anyone know of an OS/2 (Warp Server) limitation that would explain why
>some of our systems fail when they get to around 150-160 processes?
>
If I recall correctly a standard OS/2 setup has a maximum of 256 threads, but
this can be set to upto 4095. Look for the line threads=xxxx in your
config.sys. For a system with 150-160 processes you would at least set it to
640 (an average 4 threads per process). OS/2 always allocates one memory page
(4kb) per thread so you shouldn't set it to high either.
Ciao,
   David

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