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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #45 on: December 30, 2024, 10:59:42 pm »
Actually maybe it just can't find IBMCSFLK.LST.  Search turns up nothing.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #46 on: December 30, 2024, 11:10:36 pm »
The two lines I rem'd relate to this.

After I rem that, things seem fine on boot, but I can't install anymore CSF service fixpaks because there is still one "pending".  That happens even with original Config.sys from original
Install.

I would just try to do the install again, but CSF complains about the pending.
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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #47 on: December 31, 2024, 12:00:05 am »
Strange, corrupted file? Here's mine from Warp v4+updates, when I run it, it goes to a full screen for a few seconds and then cleanly exits here.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #48 on: December 31, 2024, 09:23:45 pm »
Same issue even with those.  What is IBMCSFLK.LST?  It seems like the exe calls that?

I'm about to just reinstall, but don't want to mess up my multi-boot.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #49 on: January 01, 2025, 01:59:54 am »
I'd assume that  IBMCSFLK.LST contains the files to be replaced and their replacements.

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Re: OS/2 Booting with Bootman
« Reply #50 on: January 01, 2025, 11:12:16 am »
Maybe that was never generated as part of the update, and that's why there is still an update.  I don't think I have that.  I'll check it out and see, if not, I'll just give in and reinstall.

Thanks for all the help, and Happy New Year.

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #51 on: January 02, 2025, 07:48:59 pm »
So I did a reinstall.  Still worked out well with the multi-boot.  Maybe the trick is to do the partitioning from within OS/2, instead of the installer.  So install, boot, do necessary partitioning like removing the boot manager partition.

Anyway, I did the reinstall.  Got some new errors.  Also it seems quite slow now, but maybe that's my imagination.  The error I got was trying to install C005 fixpak. (D003 same thing).  Complains about CSF_SEL.000 file.  I can't find this file.  The reader included with the FIX.CMD tool suggests it happens after attempting to use CSF 1.37b after 1.44, but I did it the same way as last time as far as I know.  What a mess!

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #52 on: January 02, 2025, 10:08:28 pm »
Oh, I fixed it.  How?  Well, I just tried it again today and it's working.  I tried many times and many reboots yesterday and same issue.  Did absolutely nothing today but try it and it worked.

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #53 on: January 02, 2025, 10:25:44 pm »
So the update that caused a problem last time worked out fine this time.

Regarding fixpaks C005 and C006, I read that C006 could cause issues.  Is there any reason I should update?  Will I miss out on anything or have any issues not updating?

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #54 on: January 02, 2025, 11:37:23 pm »
C006 was unfinshed, so without reason to update, probably best not to. You still might want to update to the last available kernel, 104 I think.

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #55 on: January 03, 2025, 08:12:05 am »
Thanks.  This page: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Updating_OS/2_Warp_4.52

Lists apars not included in fixpaks.  I can not find these in any of the archives.  Should I have them?

I appreciate your help.  Regardless of updates, I'm looking forward to actually using the OS, not just try to get it working.  I should probably watch some tutorials because the UI is somewhat foreign to me.

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #56 on: January 03, 2025, 01:33:51 pm »
C006 was unfinshed, so without reason to update, probably best not to. You still might want to update to the last available kernel, 104 I think.

A final version was made of fixpak 6. Its was just never made available to SWC members best I can tell. Only for a few companies best I can tell.

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #57 on: January 03, 2025, 05:32:09 pm »
Thanks.  This page: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Updating_OS/2_Warp_4.52

Lists apars not included in fixpaks.  I can not find these in any of the archives.  Should I have them?

I appreciate your help.  Regardless of updates, I'm looking forward to actually using the OS, not just try to get it working.  I should probably watch some tutorials because the UI is somewhat foreign to me.

Most of those apars don't look too bad. The bugs that were still there include various parts of the OS that aren't SMP safe, the first one that showed up when people started going multi-core was tcpip32.dll being linked to the single thread library instead of the multi-thread library, there is a patched version floating around. The big ones are in how the kernel handles high memory, memory between 1GB and around 3.5GB. For example the kernel didn't deallocate memory if you loaded a DLL into the high memory arena and then removed it so you would have zombie memory holes. Arca Noae has patched the kernel to fix most of these but the license from IBM says they can only distribute kernels with ArcaOS, so no kernel fixes for you.

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #58 on: January 03, 2025, 10:41:29 pm »
Update to 14_104a worked.  Thanks.

Side note, what unzip program is the best?  I have been unsuccessful unzipping anything.

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Re: OS/2 Multi-Boot on T42p
« Reply #59 on: January 03, 2025, 11:02:48 pm »
Perhaps this one, http://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/util/archiver/Info-Zip_Unzip_6-00.exe
Not sure of its dependencies, likely at least libc.
Long term you might want to consider installing ANPM as a package manager and install zip from there.
Start here, https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/anpm/ you also should have warpin, which I think I posted the link to already.