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Unable to boot Arca Installer 5.1.1 on Thinkpad T43 1871-AB9

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Doug Clark:
Lewis has a T43 that he has installed a SSD in so it can be done.  BUT - if you consider the price of an SSD for that machine, and compare that price to a later model  Lenovo, such as a T530 - you can get an entire used T530 for less than you can get a PATA - SSD.  I just checked ebay and there is a 15" T530 for $50 or best offer.  It doesn't have a HDD but you can get a new 1 TB SATA SSD for $70 - both together are less that what you would probably pay for the PATA-SSD.

Everything except wireless on the T530 works with AOS 5.1, including seamless WIN-OS/2.  For wireless you have to use one of those adapters that plugs into the wired network socket.  The boot up time on the T530 is actually faster than the resume time on the T43p. As for which keyboard is better - I like the T530 better but I know others like the T43 keyboard better.  The T530 keyboard can be replaced with a lighted keyboard - mine cost about $25 - I don't think there is a lighted keyboard for the T43.

So while the T43 is a very nice machine, you can probably get a much later, better performing Lenovo laptop for less money than upgrading the T43 hard drive.  Just a thought.

Dan Eicher:
Ok Doug, I love to play with ThinkPads, $50 is an ok impulse buy.

Spec's say it can take 16GB, with ArcaOS be unhappy if it finds more than 4GB, or would it just ignore?

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Dan Eicher on July 14, 2025, 11:18:38 pm ---Ok Doug, I love to play with ThinkPads, $50 is an ok impulse buy.

Spec's say it can take 16GB, with ArcaOS be unhappy if it finds more than 4GB, or would it just ignore?

--- End quote ---

ArcaOS will give you the option to use the 12.5 GB's (usual is about 3.5GB visible to the system) as a ram disk. System Setup-->Ram Disk. Otherwise, it'll ignore it.
I like using JFS on my ram disk. It is a bit tricky to set up, so ask if the default choices of FAT32 or HPFS aren't acceptable.
The ram disk isn't the fastest due to the overhead of entering and exiting PAE, but handy for a scratch disk and for tmp files

Dan Eicher:
> System Setup

That came up today, in my play.

I couldn't figure out how to find that in PM, or start it on the command line.

Can I buy a vowel?

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Dan Eicher on July 15, 2025, 03:01:16 am ---> System Setup

That came up today, in my play.

I couldn't figure out how to find that in PM, or start it on the command line.

Can I buy a vowel?

--- End quote ---

In AOS, it is in Computer (Desktop-->Computer) and a shadow in the xcentre, middle icon to the right of the CPU usage widget. Older OS/2's, it would be on the desktop.
You can't easily open it from the cmd line. The WPS keeps most of its info in Extended Attributes (xattr's) and the ini files. Do a dir /s on your desktop and you'll see mostly directories with lots of EA's and empty files.

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