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Messages - Dave Yeo

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Thanks for the info, Dave!  Interestingly, I put my 8 GB stick into a linux machine, and used fdisk to change the partition type to 7 (HPFS/NTFS/exFAT), and it now works under both my linux desktop and ArcaOS.

That's interesting. Guess the important part is being partitioned rather then a large floppy.
Note that there is an alternative USB stack maintained by Lars that can handle the large floppy format. It's more of an experimental branch and unsupported by Arca Noae.

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS install - can't create partition
« on: May 28, 2017, 03:22:15 am »
Probably using the Windows 10 disk manager to shrink the partition left the partition table in a OS/2 unfriendly state. Should always use OS/2 tools for resizing etc. You could try using dfsee to fix them.

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Hi Howard, welcome back to OS/2.
About the USB sticks, problem is that OS/2 doesn't recognize the large floppy format (no partition table) that most sticks use, so they need to be wiped, partitioned and LVM info added. Easiest is to download Dfsee (dfsee.com) which has a script to make USB sticks OS/2 friendly. DFsee is shareware but fully functional, the cost gives very good support.
About the realtek network driver, someone else can walk you through it but in short, there are a few different chipsets on the realtek cards that need different drivers, you probably need a different realtek driver. Doug seems to be the expert on those cards, so hopefully he'll be along to expand on it.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Unable to install ArcaOS
« on: May 27, 2017, 05:25:44 am »
Try getting the pointer on the edge of the toolbar where it turns into a double arrow and right click.
I don't know if there is a driver for the Broadcomm A/B/G with Bluetooth. You can install more network adapters with MPTN, I'm away from my ArcaOS desktop so forget exactly where it is, under system setup network IIRC.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Unable to install ArcaOS
« on: May 27, 2017, 04:38:24 am »
You have to right click on the right spot. Isn't the Intel PRO/1000 Network Adapter a regular adapter? You never did say what hardware you're installing on, but on my T42, I had to choose the correct wireless adapter during installation.

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Internet / Re: FF45.5 - choppy response/window scrolling anyone???
« on: May 27, 2017, 02:55:57 am »
Should always back up your profiles, neither Mozilla or Bitwise support downleveling the browser and something broke between 45 and 52 esr branches IIRC, breaking downleveling.
BTW, I've found a fix here for the invisible cursor, just need to get Bitwise to apply the patch from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231839.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Unable to install ArcaOS
« on: May 27, 2017, 02:50:11 am »
Weird that PMWinx is not installed as it is a basic part of OS/2.
You will have to install Panorama or Snap, depending on whether Snap supports your video. They're both S:\CID\SERVER (assuming your DVD drive is S:). Read the READMEs for how to install and if you still can't get the correct resolution, report here for more help.
Assuming you have a working wifi driver installed, easiest is to add the wireless widget to the Arcabar by right clicking and choosing "Add new widget"

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Internet / Re: SeaMonkey-2.42b8 and Thunderbird 45.8.0
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:32:33 pm »
@André, it is the Thunderbird icon that is currently broken, a regression.
BTW, Mozilla has never supported OS/2 2.x due to compressing the executables to the max.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Removing ArcaOS installed cups packages?
« on: May 26, 2017, 07:16:17 am »
Yes, there is a hard dependency on yum/rpm. I share my @UNIXROOT between 4 bootable partitions and switching from the ArcaOS installed @UNIXROOT to the shared @UNIXROOT seems to work fine as long as the config.sys entries are synched, probably more important here due to using it to build Mozilla, which was the reason I bit the bullet and started using it.
Good luck with switching to your shared DLL directory, which I'd guess would work. I do wonder about things like fontconfig that look in @UNIXROOT/etc for its configuration.
 

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Applications / Re: Firefox 45.5 Install issues
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:52:07 am »
Andi, I also downloaded the RPMs and unpacked them.  The DLLs that were missing were not in those packages. 

The fact that you don't have any problems implies that the missing DLLs are included in something you have installed but I haven't.  This is why I was asking for a zip with ALL the dependencies.   Assuming that some DLLs from other programs will be available is very bad practice - the only time that is workable is if those DLLs are an integral part of the OS - since they are not they should be supplied.

The RPMs probably pull in other RPMs. Unluckily it looks like you might have to download the source RPMs and unpack them to get the list. Could try looking at the RPM with a text editor, where close to the top will be a list of DLLs (not packages), eg for hunspell,
gcc1.dll hunspel0.dll hunspell-en-US intl8.dll libc066.dll libcx0.dll ncurses5.dll readln6.dll rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) stdcpp6.dll tinfo5.dll.
Simplest would be to have a test machine with RPM and install the RPMs and copy the needed DLLs etc to your LIBPATH.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Removing ArcaOS installed cups packages?
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:32:26 am »
If you go that route, make sure you copy the required DLLs such as libc0x to somewhere on your LIBPATH.
Actually easier to just edit your config.sys and leave the directories there so you can copy any other needed DLLs to somewhere on your LIBPATH.

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS5 Another personal Experience
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:27:50 am »
Panorama and SNAP should be under S:\CID\SERVER (assuming your DVD drive is S:), read the README's for the installation procedures, basically resetting your system to VGA and then running install.cmd or setup.cmd with the right parameters

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Internet / Re: SeaMonkey-2.42b8 and Thunderbird 45.8.0
« on: May 26, 2017, 04:15:37 am »
The build adds the icons to the exes and then make package runs lxlite on the DLLs and exes. When lxlite compresses the exe, hi-colour icons get corrupted. It's an lxlite bug.
Lxlite is needed now that we use wlink as the binaries are huge, xul.dll is 469212KBs as an example.

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Applications / Re: Visual FoxPro 3.0 on OS/2 Warp 4 and Arca OS
« on: May 25, 2017, 05:07:02 pm »
I've been running the betas for a couple of months. It's basically OS/2 and works the same once the environment is set up correctly, hard to do here when re-installing the OS weekly  :)

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Applications / Re: Visual FoxPro 3.0 on OS/2 Warp 4 and Arca OS
« on: May 25, 2017, 04:30:36 pm »
One drawback with Odin is it is only Win32, no 16 bit support. Generally 32 bit programs will run, if the API is there but some programs targeted at Win 3.x have a 16 bit installer. It is possible to change the installer to 32 bit but it has been a long time and I forget the steps.

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