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General Discussion / Re: uploaded IBM OS/2 VHS tapes
« on: October 16, 2017, 01:28:44 pm »
Thanks for uploading that videos. Great quality of the VHS conversion.

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS 5.0.1 on Dual Boot.
« on: October 15, 2017, 03:59:18 pm »

Did you READ the README, in the root of the DVD?

Doug: I don't know why you wrote "READ" in uppercase. I didn't read it completely. It is an 38 pages readme and the license of use does not says you need to read and memorize the 38 pages readme before using ArcaOS.  Which chapter do you refer to?

Quote
...you probably got the layout for very large disks, using a geometry that OS/2 cannot use (even though the disk is only about 350 GB).
Does that layout has a name and description somewhere? By the way, the Windows disk tool says it is installed on MBR (non GPT)

General note:
Richard, Doug. On this time I wanted to do a dual boot install of ArcaOS with Windows 10 without destroying the Windows partition and reinstalling it.  Why? Because it is a nag to reinstall Windows , all the apps and all your files you have previously used on Windows 10 on that machine.  (time consuming)

I appreciate your suggestion about wiping all the Hard Drive, for the moment it seems to be the only solution. It means there is a limitation of OS/2 and ArcaOS to understand the geometry that Windows 10 uses when it prepared the HDD (Limitation that Linux does not seems to has by the way) (please remember this a  non-UEFI, non-GPT system). It even will be interesting for me to know which drivers, or utilities are the one that need to updated to understand different geometries.

If someone else have a different suggestion, and show me that my opinion is wrong, and that you can install a dual boot Windows 10 / Arca OS system without destroying the partitions and without reinstalling Windows 10 please let me know.

Richard, I will follow your great tutorial to wipe all the HDD and reinstall on dual boot, but I just want to be sure if there is another way to do it without reinstalling Windows.

Regards

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Setup & Installation / ArcaOS 5.0.1 on Dual Boot.
« on: October 14, 2017, 05:27:39 pm »
Hi.

This weekend I was trying to install ArcaOS on a non UEFI, non GPT machine with Windows 10 preinstalled.

I think I'm getting the usual limitations of ArcaOS installation tools.
- "Disk 1 reports a corrupt partition table".
- "LVM Error ( 8 ) - Operation is not allowed" when I try to create the partition.

I read other forum post about it.  This is a non-destructive dual boot installation try to install ArcaOS, so I don't want to go forward with all the partition wiping.

I had tried the included tools like "Disk Utility" and "Resize Partition". "Disk Utility" does not report any issue and "Resize Partition" tell me "No Resizable Partitions Found"

These are my questions:

1) Is there another way to fix how ArcaOS see the partitions without Dfsee ?  (without wiping the hard drive)
2) If I use DfSee, what should I change?
3) In my opinion I consider this an ArcaOS limitation where there is space for improvement, since there is no "corrupt table" on the disk and since Windows is preinstalled  (sadly) on the machines it will be the most common OS to dual boot. Was there any discussion about this on the past ?

I attach some screenshots of the partition layout, so maybe someone can point out if I'm doing something wrong. I'm trying to create a partition on the first 10GB free space of the HDD.

Regards

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Networking / Re: Netgear Wireless PC Card
« on: October 13, 2017, 04:00:09 pm »
Hi

Just reading more about it:
* PC Card = PCMCIA Card (older name): 16-bit or 32-bit
* PC Card 32-bit version = Cardbus (alternative name)
- Source

I haven't found any references on the Netgear WG511 from the Hardware site.
http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Network_Adapters#PC_Cards_.2F_PCMCIA

Warp: Maybe it will be also interesting for you to try to find some other alternatives, like an Ethernet2Wifi adapter until Arca Noae releases newer wireless PCI drivers.

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS on ThinkCenter M93 Tiny
« on: October 13, 2017, 01:27:23 pm »
Hi John.

Please send me the details, model number and pci.exe report so I can add a Wiki page about it.

Regards

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Hi.

I just checked the PHP settings and it is not set like the bug says. So, I'm clueless again.

Regards

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Article Discussions / Re: Sponsorship needed for new OS/2 web browser
« on: October 12, 2017, 09:37:40 pm »
Hi

Let me list the suggested options on this thread:

- Chromium  - https://www.chromium.org/ - Chrome OSS Project
- Palemoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ -  Firefox/Mozilla Fork
- Brave - https://brave.com/ - Chromium fork.
- QupZilla - https://qupzilla.com - Qt Browser, latest version requires Qt5

Any others?

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS on ThinkCenter M93 Tiny
« on: October 12, 2017, 04:43:47 pm »
Hi John.

Remember that there was some forum data loss from August-September.

Maybe it is something related to the USB. Can you check on the BIOS if there is a way to swap USB 3 to 2 ? (or some legacy mode for USB). It can be also interesting to check the specs and see if all USB ports are 3.0. Can you please post the full model number of you  ThinkCenter M93 Tiny  ?

Regards

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That's great Sigurd. Please post your review when you try ArcaOS on it.  Once you have it please give me full details to be added on the OS2World Wiki.

Thansk

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Article Discussions / Sponsorship needed for new OS/2 web browser
« on: October 12, 2017, 12:27:11 am »
Hi

In reference to this article: http://articles.os2voice.org/

First of all, Qt has shown that it has a lot of interesting application and a lot of Qt apps has been ported to the OS/2 platform, that is why I think it is very important to have Qt 5.5 ported too. Bitwise has also demonstrated that they can deliver what they offer and have OS/2 skilled developers. I think we all need to help and donate to this fund raising started by OS2VOICE.

The other thing interesting about the OS2VOICE post is what it says "But having Q.T. will also make it easier to port the Chromium web browser to OS/2. " The important browsers on the wild are Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari. Dumping Firefox for smaller and experimental browser will not be nice, but dumping Firefox for Chromium makes a lot more sense. If having  Qt 5.5 will help the developers to have Chromium ported there is another reason why we need to support a Qt port.

What I think it needs more information is why it is so hard to port RUST to OS/2 and why "It is unlikely that RUST will ever be ported to OS/2." If someone can post more information about this subject, it will be great.

Regards

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Hi Laurenz

I don't know what can be wrong. I checked the settings of SMFForum (this script) and I was not able to find much about the wap and wap2 configuration. I enabled on Sunday something related to the cookies on the forum ("Enable local storage of cookies") but it did seem to help much.

From a regular browser on a PC I can access the wap address and see the forum contents. But if I'm not previous logged on the forum I see the message that says "Your session timed out while posting. Please go back and try again." no matter what password I put there.

Since on the last server crash PHP was also updated maybe it is something related to this bug on SMF Forum. I will try that later and let you know.

Regards

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General Discussion / Re: Trying to get the forums back.
« on: October 07, 2017, 02:51:01 pm »
Hi

Thanks for the hints. I will see if I can find something about that on the forum settings.

Regards

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Programming / Re: Non-yum/rpm vs. ordinary (?) eCS
« on: October 07, 2017, 02:08:24 pm »
Hi

I also want to rant, but my dislike is only for FHS, which I think it is the worst of the Linux world. But beside FHS I'm fine with RPM/YUM and ANPM really helped with the lack of GUI for it.

But all the software ported from the *nix world to OS/2 is helpful to us. There is a lot of software that uses libraries like libc, pixman, cairo, SDL etc., and having that libraries ported to OS/2 make it easy for developers to also make ports (and even new software) to run (natively) under this platform. It is hard to find people with skill on the classic OS/2 API (CPI, Presentation Manager, SOM and WPS) today, so sticking strictly to that classic API will let us without a lot of modern applications. Maybe that's is why it is faster for an OS/2 developer (without money or an army of developers) to have the p7zip DLL ported instead of trying to adjust all *nix software ported to use a "classic API" zip tool.

And, about having the manual in my native language (Spanish) and a INF format, I prefer to have the application ported first and if I want a specif manual for the OS/2 platform I would help the developer to format it on a wiki or translate it so he/she did not spend time on that kind of tasks.

Having personal preferences for OS/2 1.x, 2.x, Warp 3 or Warp 4.0 is ok. But I think that a developer can not focus to port software to every version in time of the "Classic OS/2 API". With the limited resources that the community have I found it alright to focus on the 4.52 level of the API.

I think that is good today that developers have more choice under the OS/2 platform. They can develop with the "Classic OS/2 API" (which source code remains on IBM's basement) or they can use a "Open API" (which evolved over time) to create their applications on OS/2. Or they can even mix the two APIs :) . As users we have the benefits of both sides, OS/2 created with the "Classic OS/2 API" runs and newer applications (made with the "Open API") from the open source community are also available.

Regards

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Thank Alex.

With your latest patch the application is working fine. I just tested it and worked. You may close the ticket I opened.

Regards

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