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(Once the video player has started, right selecting (or 'clicking') your device (or 'mouse') will show menu option, 'Open video in new tab', which will enable larger screen size. Alternatively, the video with larger screen size is shown in the Calli collection front page)

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Although IBM OS/2 3.x Warp and higher indigitalizations have been hacked into bootable CDROM media / ISO images, I believe this is the first OS/2 2.x which has been morphed into such an unique entity. The procedure was not easy -- and obviously not intuitive. The work required to make the cdboot hack complete the first phase of the OS/2 2.1 installation was substantial; and once I achieved it I thought that whatever else needed to be done would be easier. I was mistaken. I had to compile an utility to search for and replace strings in the OS/2 2.1 CONFIG.SYS file at the end of the first phase of the OS/2 installation -- as I could not find an appropriate binary one in my extensive local collection of Hobbes CDROM media, etc., nor online at Hobbes site and/or elsewhere.

Had IBM released the OS/2 code as free and/or open source software (FOSS) instead of being so indifferent to the multiple petitions to do so (for instance those in which I personally took part at the OS2World site before I left the site for good -- as I had moved on to GNU/Linux Debian) the avaricious plutocrat Bill Gates' mediocre 'creation', backdoored software, idiotically named as a mundane household notion, 'windows,' would not have spread like the virus it emulates.

Generating an OS/2 2.1x bootable CD under GNU/Linux Debian -based Metztli Reiser4:

Shell

Generally speaking, even if your bootable two(2) disk image is successfully created, if  it can not make the transition to the OS/2 disks layout on the CD, i.e., can not detect it due an older driver like IBM1S506.ADD (see snapshot below), the boot procedure will stop with the output:

The system cannot find the file "A:\COUNTRY.SYS". This device driver, program, or data file is not located in the default path or the path specified for it in the CONFIG.SYS file. Install this file in the correct directory, or correct the appropriate CONFIG.SYS file statement.

The system is stopped.

Correct the preceding error and restart the system.

Shell

If, unlike myself, you are not using the Korn Shell under OS/2, then the command delimited by double quotes is sufficient.

CONVERT FROM 2.1 BASE VIDEO INTO 3.0 BASE VIDEO IN ORDER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MONITOR CONFIGURATION FEATURE OF THE 3.0 SYSTEM ICON

• Hint 4)
  Display driver reference lists the binary files that compose the base video subsystem and explains the difference in the installation between 3.0 and 2.1. Search for VIDEOCFG to see all references.
• i.e.,
  MONITOR.DIF
  VCFGINST.EXE
  VCFGMRI.DLL
  VIDEOCFG.206 (To be renamed as VIDEOCFG.DLL when copied over to OS/2 v2.11)
  VIDEOCFG.DLL (This is for OS/2 Warp 3)
  VIDEOPMI.DLL
  WPVIDSYS.DLL

Dual-booting with OS/2 for SMP v2.11 and Warp 3 Connect Uni-Processor.
Caveat: If using a single CPU/CORE, then the CONFIG.SYS FOR OS/2 for SMP v2.11 must have disabled the statement
PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /APIC
i.e.,
REM PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /APIC

else, it will not dual-boot with an OS/2 Uni-Processor in a VirtualBox 7.0.14 (currently being used).

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REFERENCES:
Creating bootable CD-ROMs
(work in progress)