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General Discussion / Re: when will version 5.1 of ArcaOS be released
« on: May 25, 2023, 12:03:09 pm »unless they change the underlying OS/2 to a 64 bit OS.
why do you need 64 bit OS/2 ? we do not have 64 bit applications

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unless they change the underlying OS/2 to a 64 bit OS.
What do you recommend for copying all from the HDD to the stick? A simple copy command or some other copying tool?
If you see it as a hobby, then how much fun is it to wait for fixes that are never going to happen?
Can anything be done to fix the DMI table?
A little background. ANPM uses the output of dmidecode to hash/encrypt ID/PASS credentials for subscription repos. I was working through an issue where on the OS2 kernel this process was failing. Turned out to be caused by the board maker (MSI) putting/leaving generic identifier string in a specific DMI table field. Alex fixed this, so now that works.
I subsequently booted up using my OS4 config and came to find out that ANPM credentials check on the sub repos failed again. This time I looked through the debug, reviewed the outputs from dmidecode and indeed, the output is broken. In case someone else is attempting to use ANPM on an OS4 configured system they will likely fail as well.
FYI, here is what I'm seeing:Code: [Select][G:\]dmidecode
# dmidecode 3.1
Scanning /dev/mem for entry point.
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
54 structures occupying 1934 bytes.
Table at 0x0009F800.
Invalid entry length (0). DMI table is broken! Stop.
New Yellow PNG folder icons. Had to change manually. ArcaOS unlike eComstation does not allow it to be automatically done
I see you found this to work, and I can certainly confirm that when I was using HPFS386 that was indeed the case.
@OS4User
Does os4dump work in uefi mode?
As an additional check just in case something went wrong: the OS2DUMP module in the root dir should have size 10525 bytes. That's the specialized OS2DUMP that it needs for DUMPFS.IFS to work.
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║ Disk write protected, cannot write ║
║ Q:\DUMPDATA.001 ║
║ [ Retry ] [ Skip ] [ Cancel ] ║
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Will start looking around and seeing how I can help others (os/4, es/2, etc.) ... I've time on my hands, and can easily devote testing, documentation, and such hours to your efforts.
Memory below 4GB: 2.39 GiB
not bad, will it increase if you reduce Video Mem ?
That is with the minimum video memory.