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- From: 12100z@d1.dartmouth.edu (Tom Buskey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Any Gateway2000 users out there?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.205345.13729@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:53:45 GMT
- References: <mullins.721927625@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <mullins.721927625@convex.convex.com>, mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins) says:
- > I just ordered a new machine from Gateway2000, and as my luck would have
- > it, the very next day I heard a horror story about installing OS/2 on a
- > Gateway machine.
- >
- > The machine I ordered is:
- > Model 4DX-33V
- > 8MB RAM, 64K Cache
- > Adaptec 1542A SCSI, with a 200MB HD
- > ATI Ultra Pro VESA Local bus, with 1MB VRAM
- >
- [stuff deleted]
- >--- Don Mullins, mullins@convex.com
- >---- Convex Computer Corporation
- >--- Richardson, Texas (USA)
- >--
- I just got a Gateway myself - same model w/ 340MB IDE drive & the 15" monitor.
- And, I have a Syquest 88MB removable drive attached to an Adaptec 1542b I transfered
- into the machine.
-
- Yes, I had problems installing. IBM was very helpful - they spent over an hour at 2 different
- times helping me. Here's some hints:
- Use the ATI utility disks for from Gateway. Use the Install program to set the powerup
- configuration. Tell it you have a PS/2 VGA screen instead of Gateway's. You'll get
- 640x480, but I've heard you can create a custom monitor w/ refresh @ 72MHz. I'm using
- joel's drivers, installed manually as he says at 1024x768x256. I also reset my monitor to
- the Gateway type.
-
- I used boot manager & set up: a primary 3MB dos, 140 (?) extended/logical DOS (not bootable),
- and the rest went to OS/2 installable.
-
- The Syquest works if the SCSI id is 0. Then it uses Adaptec's bios to call itself d:.
-
- I'm using an HPFS system too. I failed to get past disk 6 because of the Video once. I used
- DOS fdisk & had problems after the install too. Then I tried to re-install w/o formatting. That
- didn't do anything. you can't reinstall over an existing system. I reformatted & got a clean
- install. You might have to go into config.sys & change \os2\mdos\vvga.sys to vsvga.sys
- to get windows in high res.
-
- I might have left some stuff out, but I have a nice system now. I can boot OS/2 (default) or
- from my 3MB DOS. the extended DOS is accessable from DOS & OS/2 as D: too. And I
- have all those neat GNU tools w/o the stupid 8 character filenames :-)
-
- Tom Buskey 12100z@d1.dartmouth.edu
- "It is not I who am crazy, it is I who am mad!" - Ren in 'Space Madness'
-