OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
Informal eCS 1.2R releases
xynixme:
Apparently creating bootable, updated OS CD is quite hard. Are there informal eCS 1.2R releases for OS languages which have no official eCS 1.2R release (which shoudl work with more than one core), just like there's an informal Korean Warp 4 FP15 FixPak?
Roderick Klein:
Having worked at Mensys on eCS 1.2R it was released in English, Italian and German. The Italian version might have been 1.2 and not 1.2R. eCo software created an eCS 1.2R Russian.
I am not aware of any other languages being created. The reason most likely nobody ever did this is because most likely nobody understands the complex technical swamp its under the bonnet of any OS/2 installer. Its not really down to the desigh of the eCS or ArcaOS installer. They both lean on portions of the IBM installers such as
SEINST/RSPINST (which install the base OS from OS2IMAGE). This is where the first fun starts, updating the pack files in the correct directories. If you cold call this fun! Then other installers such as the PEER and MPTS installer run in different fashion. So example MPTS uses a ZIP files instead of packfiles.
I consider it a technicall house of horrors.
Anyway stepping in and updating all of that stuff is certainly a pretty massive job... My estimate at Mensys is that we worked a full release of another language about 2 tot 3 months at least. Which should give a clue how much work it was.... And of course you need to know what your doing and how to debug a failling a installation, which can also be pretty time consuming...
xynixme:
--- Quote ---Having worked at Mensys on eCS 1.2R it was released in English, Italian and German. The Italian version might have been 1.2 and not 1.2R. eCo software created an eCS 1.2R Russian.
This is where the first fun starts, updating the pack files in the correct directories.
--- End quote ---
So elves don't exist... Of course I want the missing one, albeit an informal 1.2R may be restricted to e.g. Dani-updates and a newest kernel (just the basic stuff to support hardware newer than Pentium 4s).
I do use the official, full 1.2R English too, but only to install the English toolkit. Its 1.2R installer works. I don't like the concept of mixing languages (e.g. Korean FP6 and English FP15), so I never considered using a 1.2R CD. Which may be too old by now anyway.
Other people have already reported that updating a 1.2 or 1.2R release is possible in theory, but that this route matches the one described by you. Easier said than done. I was hoping for elves with an own informal update, a 1.2R or 1.2S, without each user having to re-invent that wheel. Hence the question. Thank you for your efforts.
xynixme:
Informal user's quality improvement: a simple Rexx script, which assumes Mozilla is installed in the default C:\PROGRAMS\MOZILLA directory. It sets the LIBPATSTRICT & BEGINLIBPATH settings of default Mozilla WPProgram objects, to avoid possible DLL conflicts with more recent members of the Mozilla family (FF/SM/TB).
Do not execute this if you have already applied those settings to the Mozilla WPProgram objects, because then the same setting will be set twice.
Change the text C:\PROGRAMS\MOZILLA (4 times) when another base directory is in use. The app doesn't verify any condition.
--- Code: ---/**/
CALL RxFuncAdd 'SysSetObjectData','RexxUtil','SysSetObjectData'
IF SysSetObjectData('<MOZILLAEXE>','SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T;SET BEGINLIBPATH=C:\PROGRAMS\MOZILLA') THEN SAY 'Mozilla - Mozilla (LIBPATH management)'
IF SysSetObjectData('<CCINBOX>','SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T;SET BEGINLIBPATH=C:\PROGRAMS\MOZILLA') THEN SAY 'Mozilla - Mozilla Mail (LIBPATH management)'
IF SysSetObjectData('<MOZILLAPROFMANAGER>','SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T;SET BEGINLIBPATH=C:\PROGRAMS\MOZILLA') THEN SAY 'Mozilla - Mozilla Profile Manager (LIBPATH management)'
IF SysSetObjectData('<MOZILLACHAT>','SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T;SET BEGINLIBPATH=C:\PROGRAMS\MOZILLA') THEN SAY 'Mozilla - Mozilla Chat (LIBPATH management)'
EXIT
--- End code ---
xynixme:
Yet another possible improvement by an user, for Microsoft Excel 5.0 (of Microsoft Office 4.3): increase the DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT entries in x:\OS2\INSTALL\DATABASE from 4 to, for example, a more modern 8 or 16.
With a setting of 4 MiB the available memory is hardly more than just 3 Mib (menu ?, Info..., System info).
Using 8 is not required, but e.g. undo may keep working more frequently. I don't know what the default setting of ArcaOS is.
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