Marten Feldtmann
2017-05-23 09:28:11 UTC
I've been an OS/2 fan since the OS/2 2.0 came out and actually I bought a new personal license of ArcaOS (to support this attempt)... but the reality is pretty hard:
Where is OpenOffice ? Its not installed and its not on the DVD installation medium. No information, where to download the program from ...
Firefox 38.x and Thunderbird are delivered with OS, even my HTML5 application seem to run under Firefox 38.x (thats a good sign)
-> I managed to run the software in a VirtualBox under Linux - but the sound driver (SoundBlaster) did not work ... ok not that important, network is working, but I was NOT able to see any other computer on my network ... therefore mount a remote drive seems to be impossible.
-> I tried out a Samsung NC10 laptop - on such a small laptop OS/2 would be fast and yes it is fast - but has no network (neither WLAN or ethernet). So I removed the installation
-> I tried out a ThinkPad T61p, but the installer fails due to a corrupt partition table on the harddisc and no chance to "delete" the partition (I was not allowed to do that ...)
-> I tried a new desktop system (8 core system with AMD CPU 83xx and GTX1080 graphics card). Here the installation fails - during the installation process he looses its SATA DVD-ROM drive.
Tried the installation again with an USB drive, but got the same error as with the T61p - corrupted partition table (on a new, empty SSD drive !) and no way to create a new volume).
So to summarize for me: tried it on 3 hardware devices and never got a running system.
Where is OpenOffice ? Its not installed and its not on the DVD installation medium. No information, where to download the program from ...
Firefox 38.x and Thunderbird are delivered with OS, even my HTML5 application seem to run under Firefox 38.x (thats a good sign)
-> I managed to run the software in a VirtualBox under Linux - but the sound driver (SoundBlaster) did not work ... ok not that important, network is working, but I was NOT able to see any other computer on my network ... therefore mount a remote drive seems to be impossible.
-> I tried out a Samsung NC10 laptop - on such a small laptop OS/2 would be fast and yes it is fast - but has no network (neither WLAN or ethernet). So I removed the installation
-> I tried out a ThinkPad T61p, but the installer fails due to a corrupt partition table on the harddisc and no chance to "delete" the partition (I was not allowed to do that ...)
-> I tried a new desktop system (8 core system with AMD CPU 83xx and GTX1080 graphics card). Here the installation fails - during the installation process he looses its SATA DVD-ROM drive.
Tried the installation again with an USB drive, but got the same error as with the T61p - corrupted partition table (on a new, empty SSD drive !) and no way to create a new volume).
So to summarize for me: tried it on 3 hardware devices and never got a running system.