This section is an overview of the OS/2 installation program. More detailed information about installation can be found in the OS/2 2.0 Installation Guide.
When users begin the installation of OS/2 2.0, they are asked to make decisions about formatting and partitioning the hard disk. After they answer these prompts, they are presented with a set of graphical installation screens. These screens use the standard Presentation Manager interface and provide feedback on the progress of the installation.
Users can tailor their systems by selecting only those features that are useful to them. They can choose to install all features, a preselected set of features, or only those features that they specify. These choices are further described under the heading "Choosing Features." If users decide not to install certain features, they can add them later, using the Selective Install utility program in the System Setup folder.
The list that follows is an overview of the choices users can make during installation:
The installation program checks the configuration of the hardware and installs support for the devices it finds.
If a system has a hardware device that comes with a separate device support diskette (for example, an optical disk drive), the user can install that support during installation.
If users choose to install support for running Windows applications, they can tailor the way WIN-OS/2 sessions are displayed.
If users have existing OS/2, DOS, or Windows applications on a hard disk, they can choose to migrate them to the OS/2 desktop during installation.
If users have a CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT file from an existing operating system, they can choose to have the information from that file copied to the OS/2 CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
Users can install only one printer driver during the initial OS/2 2.0 installation. If all printers use the same driver, that one driver is sufficient. Users can install additional printer drivers later.