>I've been reading this newsgroup for 2 months, and I'm getting more and
>more interested in purchasing OS/2...but
>I own a Toshiba notebook (a Dynabook V 386/20) with 6 Mb of RAM and a tiny
> 40 Mb hard disk. According to the consensus, 8 Mb of RAM would be better
> but it seems possible to run OS/2 on 6 Mb.
It is possible, but OS/2 will run much better with 8MB.
>Actually, my main problem is the hard disk.
>Although I haven't got a lot of applications, I would like to keep at
>least 10 Mb of free space on my hard disk. This raises two questions :
> (1) Is it possible to satisfy this condition if I install
> the complete OS/2 package (i.e. with the WPS) ?
If you don't install Win-OS/2 and most of the OS/2 2.0 applets, OS/2 2.0
will take about 15-18MB. This would leave you about 20MB of disk space
(including a swap file).
> (2) Same question, but without the WPS ?
While it is possible to use OS/2 2.0 without the WPS, it is not really an
option. I don't believe that the WPS actually takes very much hard disk
space (at least in comparison with Win-OS/2 and the applets).
>I think that I will eventually buy an external hard disk. However, these
> kind of devices can only be connected to the parallel printer port,
> either (a) directly, or (b) through a SCSI adapter.
> (3) Does anybody know if these kind of hard disks can be
> recognized by OS/2 ?
Trantor sells a parallel-to-SCSI adapter. I haven't used it myself but
they do have an OS/2 2.0 driver for it.
>In fact, I would be very happy in hearing news from people who have already tried (or managed) to install OS/2 on this kind of laptop (especially Toshiba ones).
Sorry, can't help you there. I run OS/2 2.0 on a Zenith Mastersport SLe.
