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Setup & Installation / Re: Need help with QSINIT Loader
« on: September 21, 2014, 06:46:06 pm »
Hi Sigurd,

There are two sets of disk images that you have to be concerned with, those in the os2image directory and those in the diskimgs directory. 

The ones in the os2image dir are the ones that you can add packed files to, which is what I am assuming you are doing.  Those in the diskimgs dir are the images used to boot the CD/DVD.  Although they are a standard diskimage file (you can make a floppy disk from them) non of the files used for booting in there are packed, zipped or compressed in any way because there is nothing at that stage of the boot that can uncompress them.  Unfortunately updcd creates these image files before you pause the process. 

The only way to change them is to open then in a v-floppy, unless you have a floppy drive available and several spare floppies, change what you need to and then convert that floppy back to an image - or use memboot which allows better manipulation of what is there (use e_pf.exe from memboot to open the  .pf files in the bootimgs dir of your eCS CD to get some idea of what can be used there - for example, all of the *.BIO files in disk_0 are no longer used). 
 

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Setup & Installation / Re: Need help with QSINIT Loader
« on: September 21, 2014, 01:43:33 pm »
Sorry about the memboot infestation but for what you want to do you need to know about it.

I don't have a computer here with updcd on it but from memory (it has been a couple of years since I last used it) the updated boot disks only appear in the temp dir and are deleted when it creates a CD image.  When I first used it I paused the create process and had a look at what was in the temp dir and made adjustments as necessary.

I see that walking_x has given this a test and it works (renaming QSINIT to OS2LDR and including OS2LDR.INI).

It appears that you are now at the position I was a few years ago with creating non standard CD/DVDs of OS/2 which caused me to learn about memdisk to produce no-emulation-boot CD/DVDs.  With the work being done on the OS4 kernel, QSINIT, USB and a few other things, it appears that I will have to produce my own updated, enhanced DVD (I already have over 1GB of bits to add to the basic install).

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Setup & Installation / Re: Need help with QSINIT Loader
« on: September 20, 2014, 10:09:01 pm »
Regarding the disk image.  If you are using updcd to construct your DVD it will be the disk0-1 that is created to be used for the memboot.

You really do need to get a copy of bootable and memboot to see just how memboot is used to make a boot CD.

I have used updcd to create updated versions of OS/2 which I then manually manipulate to produce CDs and DVDs to allow me to do such things as maintain our servers, troubleshoot our test computers and restore boot disk images.

When I get time (I have a couple of technical manuals that must be ready for the publisher before the end of the month) I will try and produce a CD that will use memboot using QSINIT loader in place of OS2LDR.  I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work but you will most probably have to manually include it in the disk image the CD/DVD boots from - as far as I remember updcd won't do things like that for you.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Need help with QSINIT Loader
« on: September 20, 2014, 01:11:32 am »
First thing, get a copy of Hayo Baan's bootable http://hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl/bootAble/ and Veit's memdisk http://kannegieser.net/veit (this is listed together with loaddll, tar and untar in the bootable readme).

I got my basic knowledge of using memboot from reading the demo.cmd from memboot and the bootable.cmd from bootable.

I use four .pf files (disk0.pf, disk1.pf, disk2.pf and disk3.pf.  Disk 0 and 1 are the OS/2 boot floppies (disk0-1 and disk2) disk2 are support files that allow me to format disks etc. (virtually disk3 of the OS/2 disk images disks) and disk3 is a catch all for those files that may be needed but get updated frequently.

If, after you have read the memboot documentation, you still need step by step instructions send me a PM and I will dig out my notes for you.  I say this because it is much better that you try for yourself because what I do may not be exactly what you want. 

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Setup & Installation / Re: Need help with QSINIT Loader
« on: September 19, 2014, 05:33:00 pm »
My experience in making bootable OS/2 CDs and DVDs is that you can't have anything that needs to be unpaked or unziped during the initial boot process.

Using memboot requires that the packed files are unpacked into memory before they can be used and all those files are in an unpacked state. 

It would therefore appear that you need to unzip the QSINIT file and the include that in your disk3.pf (the one that contains all the odd extra files required at boot time).

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Hardware / Re: Shuttle XH81 Core i7 Haswell Mini PCs and eComStation?
« on: September 15, 2014, 08:15:53 pm »
The stumbling bloxk could be hat it only has display port and HDMI for video output.  The sound could also be a problem.

Blueray drives should be backwards compatible with standard DVD disks and I think CD as well (video CD comes to mind).

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Hi Thomas,

You didn't sat who the disk manufacturer was so I can't be specific.  It looks as if you need to get the manufacturers disk tools and run them against each disk.  This will tell you if there are problems with the disks and fix bad sectors if possible by replacing them from the reserve sectors.

If they pass the manufacturers tests then I would suggest you reformat using the long format option - just don't try that on a 1.5TB disk unless you have a lot of time before you need to use it. 

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Setup & Installation / Re: Reconfiguring the Screen to 1366x768 pixels
« on: September 13, 2014, 02:50:25 pm »
What video driver are you using, SNAP or Panorama?  The resolution you quote appears to that of a laptop, my Acer has 1440 x 900 without problems under SNAP.

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Setup & Installation / Re: End-User Suggestions for the next release of eCS
« on: September 13, 2014, 02:20:51 pm »
There is a slight problem with your request.  Anything that is part of the base OS/2 can't be changed because it still belongs to IBM.

FAT32 has support, you must install it as it is not part of OS/2.  There are also some problems with it in that you can't format anything with it.

As I understand it there is a very incomplete port of NTFS that appears to read some NTFS volumes but no writing to them.

E.EXE is original OS/2 so I very much doubt there will ever be any changes there.

The other things, who knows.  If there are enough programmers prepared to dedicate their time to porting and/or disassembling as necessary to make replacements the situation may change - if nor then it won't which is a pity.

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Applications / Re: HTML to epub conversion
« on: September 08, 2014, 02:15:55 am »
Dave, I think that Calibre would be 'nice' to have ported it is not really an epub editor, its main strength is in e-book file type conversion.  Sigil, on the other hand is a true epub editor and does that job exceedingly well, even the very old version that Paul ported - a newer version which has extra features would be the thing although I can't remember which version it was when it changed to using the next version of Qt4 above the one we have.

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Applications / Re: HTML to epub conversion
« on: September 07, 2014, 10:54:06 am »
Hi Guzzi,

I have an old version of Sigil (requires Qt4) that Paul ported a few years ago.  It doesn't have all the nice things of the latest version but does the basics of creating an epub. 

Sigil is no longer being developed and Calibre now has an epub editor that is supposed to do the same as Sigil.  Somewhere around version 0.6 or 0.7 it started to use the next version of Qt4 that we don't have so I gave up even thinking of trying to learn how to port it and now use the win version in a VM using a very cut down win XP.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: September 06, 2014, 10:20:40 pm »
And there you see the problems.  Most components can be obtained if you are prepared to pay the minimum/quantity price.  In many ways we get round that by ordering a wide range of components from the OEM but in some cases we have to say 'sorry, no can do'.   

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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: September 05, 2014, 10:20:02 pm »
Hi Andi,

New equipment usually fails because the design engineer didn't take into consideration all situations where it could be used and then the parts procurement department always tend to go for the cheapest components that fit the specification.  Then when standard condition are missed - used at full power in a very hot environment small components tend to stop working.

To start looking for replacement parts for your unit you would need to know who the OEM was of each component and their part number.  Once you know that you go to Radio Spares (RS), Farnell or other major component suppliers depending on where you live and have a business account.  If we have time next week I will ask my parts girl to see if she can find out anything but, please, don't hold your breath. ;)     

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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: September 04, 2014, 11:38:05 pm »
Guzzi, as you can see we do quite a number of repairs on equipment, much of which has SMT parts (who throws away equipment worth several thousand euros if it can be repaired for less than replacement cost).  I do admit to us having several binocular magnifying units (not quite microscopes) out in the repair section and, believe it or not, we still use out Litesold control units from the 80s although it is now almost impossible to get replacement parts for the irons themselves.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Adding fonts to be used by Ghostscript
« on: September 04, 2014, 09:40:59 pm »
Thanks Alex.  That works for all pages.

Attached a couple of screen grabs - lucide and qpdfview

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