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WinOS2 hangs on File Manager and a FAT32 drive

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Roderick Klein:
If you still have a valid ArcaOS subscription, get the latest FAT 32 driver from Arca Noae. This hang you describes opening the Windows 3.1 File manager hangs the system.
That is not an issue with not having that 2 GB file size fix installed. It hangs because the driver in ArcaOS has a bug.

So update to the latest FAT 32 driver from Arca Noae, that should resolve your hang.

Best regards,

Roderick Klein

mauro:

--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on April 29, 2020, 04:12:34 am ---The problem is, that DOS, and by extension Win/OS2, only know about 2 GB partitions. That is the reason why later versions of ArcaOS have the 2GBfix package installed. It is at HOBBES: https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2gbfix.zip. That package is further modified by a patch; https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2GBFIXPA.ZIP. When you use that, DOS and Win/OS2 only see 2 GB drives, even though there is a lot more there.

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do you know if this fix works also in OS2 Warp for the "not enough space" issue on windows installer running in Odin, which I learned it is due the 2Gb space limit ?

Doug Bissett:

--- Quote ---do you know if this fix works also in OS2 Warp for the "not enough space" issue on windows installer running in Odin, which I learned it is due the 2Gb space limit ?
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No. it is for DOS and Win/OS2 only.

There was a tweaked windows installer, somewhere. I have no idea how well it works (and 2 GB doesn't sound right). The other way around that, is to add enough files to the drive, to change the number wrap, so the installer thinks it has about 2 GB (or whatever the number is) free.

Dave Yeo:
There is https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/windows/win32inst.zip which replaced the 16 bit installer with 32 bit files, but this was for Win32 programs that came with a 16 bit installer which didn't run under Odin.
Funny enough, I also remember the opposite in the Win95 days, 16 bit Windows programs that would run fine under WinOS2 (or Win 3.1) that came with a 32 bit installer which needed Win95+ to install.

mauro:

--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on May 01, 2020, 03:07:18 am ---
--- Quote ---do you know if this fix works also in OS2 Warp for the "not enough space" issue on windows installer running in Odin, which I learned it is due the 2Gb space limit ?
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No. it is for DOS and Win/OS2 only.

There was a tweaked windows installer, somewhere. I have no idea how well it works (and 2 GB doesn't sound right). The other way around that, is to add enough files to the drive, to change the number wrap, so the installer thinks it has about 2 GB (or whatever the number is) free.

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ok I had already tried with this workaround (learned here of course) of filling the empty volume space with a giant file to make the remaining free space become little more than 1 Gb, but it hasn't worked

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