Installation

a)

During the installation, you will be asked which "Drive your personal computer starts from?". This must be answered as "A" drive.

When you are asked to "Insert diskette from which you will start the personal computer in drive A.", insert the DOS 5.0 diskette.

Further instructions on how to use the Install program are in the guide.

When the DOS PC Support/400 installation program has stopped, add the following line to the top of the CONFIG.SYS file on the DOS 5.0 diskette:

DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\FSFILTER.SYS

NOTE: if you have installed OS/2 V2.0 on a drive other than C:, use that drive letter instead.

FSFILTER.SYS is a special DOS device driver that allows a Virtual Machine Boot session to access (read/write) all OS/2 V2.0 drives (both FAT and HPFS). Without this driver, the Virtual Machine Boot session can only READ from OS/2 V2.0 FAT drives.

Create a Virtual Machine Boot diskette image file from your DOS 5.0 diskette with the following steps:

Put your DOS 5.0 diskette in drive A:

At a OS/2 or DOS command prompt, enter:

VMDISK A: C:\PCSDOS50.DSK

This will create a file that contains an image of the DOS 5.0 diskette.

Create a new VDM object on the Workplace Shell desktop.

Locate the Templates folder. It is usually an icon on the Workplace Shell.

Open the Templates folder.

Locate the Program icon template.

Drag the Program icon template on to the desktop. This will cause the Program Settings notebook to appear.

Enter an asterisk "*" in the Path and file name field.

Select the Session notebook tab.

Select either DOS full screen or DOS window and then select the DOS Settings... button.

Select the DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE list item and then enter:

C:\PCSDOS50.DSK

in the upper right entry field.

Select the Save button to save the DOS settings and return.

Select the General notebook tab.

Change the Title field to DOS PC Support/400 or your own name describing the new object.

Close the Settings notebook by double clicking on the system menu in the upper left corner of the window.

Now there will be a DOS PC Support/400 icon on your desktop. Double click on it to bring up DOS PC Support/400.