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Applications / Re: Kermit 95 3.0 beta
« on: January 28, 2025, 07:47:11 pm »
Thanks Davidrg & Martin, I still use Kermit, will make sure to upgrade when 3.0 is out!

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Programming / Re: DOSBox-x - infinite loop in configure/make
« on: January 17, 2025, 12:46:49 pm »
Thank you Mentore, fingers crossed!

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Programming / Re: DOSBox-x - infinite loop in configure/make
« on: January 16, 2025, 09:51:48 pm »
Cool, so the latest dosbox-x works fine on Arca then?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing ArcaOS on QEmu
« on: December 15, 2024, 03:04:33 am »
ArcaOS 5.1 runs fine on qemu 9.2 (tested on debian 12 x86_64):

qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=arca51.img,format=raw -cdrom arca51.iso -m 4G

qemu 9.2 works as of 12/2024.

Good luck!

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Hardware / Re: The last nail in OS/2's coffin
« on: December 14, 2024, 10:33:33 pm »
I don't think the lack of 16-bits support is such a big deal for OS/2 or ArcaOS. And to some extent, x86 being slowly replaced with Arm64 isn't much of a problem either.

I could see a future where, regardless of the underlying hardware (Arm64, RiscV or x86, 16-bit support or not) we boot a small linux kernel with a stripped down userland, just enough to run qemu/kvm which would run OS/2 or ArcaOS. In fact, this would also allow you easily to do block-device backups and ship them remotely (s3 or else) without much additional work; so I would even consider this as a better option.

Even better, you could nfsboot linux+qemu, retrieve the block device, if necessary, put it in memory (or access it via nfs, either way) and you could have ArcaOS on a completely disk-less solution. Even better, you could use that same linux abstraction to setup wireguard and boot over the internet securely. ArcaOS would still see the disk as locally attached because qemu would serve it as a typical ide, sata or scsi attached disk.

So yeah, overall, I'm not worried about the instruction set or hardware capabilities. OS/2 lives.

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Applications / Re: 3270
« on: May 07, 2024, 05:14:46 am »
PCOMM 4.3 and ZOC 4.1.5
https://www.os2site.com/sw/comm/terminal/index.html

ZOC OS/2 developper
https://www.emtec.com/download.html#zocfiles

Interesting! I didn't know about ZOC, do you recommend over PCOMM?

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Applications / Re: 3270
« on: May 01, 2024, 03:32:29 am »
Thank you Neil!

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Applications / 3270
« on: April 29, 2024, 06:33:26 am »
What is the last version of IBM's Personal Communications (aka PCOMM) software for OS/2?
Or alternatively do you recommend another 3270/5250 terminal emulator (on OS/2)?

Thank you for reading!

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Programming / fatal error: sys/cdefs.h: No such file or directory
« on: March 12, 2024, 12:36:12 am »
Do you know which package is needed to add the missing header files? This is the gcc from netlabs-rel (9.2.0-4.oc00)
Thank you!

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Storage / Re: Boot from iscsi or fiber channel
« on: February 13, 2024, 06:37:53 am »
What about fiber channel, is there any FC adapter known to work with OS/2?

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Storage / Boot from iscsi or fiber channel
« on: February 12, 2024, 07:28:11 am »
I would like to have a diskless ArcaOS (or Warp 4, but preferably ArcaOS) machine. For that I would like to boot and run diskless from iSCSI or Fiber Channel or FCoE (Fiberchannel over Ethernet.)

Either way it will be booting from a Netapp filter.

It's just much more convenient for us, as it allows us to take filesystem snapshots, replicate storage remotely; and it gets automatically backed up; plus naturally, it's a very reliable SAN underneath with parity; and finally, it's more "aligned" with how we run things around here.

The initial OS installation can be done to Virtualbox (because I don't think you can readily install to FC or iSCSI), then the contents of the disk *could* be moved (more precisely dd if=virtualboxdisk.raw of=/dev/remoteblockdevice bs=512 or something like that) to the SAN block device, but I'm not certain how things would boot (ECSBOOT.COM?); naturally, I could use a Qlogic HBA with iSCSI boot support (sometimes they do that for windows or AIX) but I'm not sure if that was ever attempted for OS/2; although, because it's a fairly common way to do things in large organizations i would be surprised to hear that it was never done with OS/2.

GOALS: Note that I don't want to boot or run diskless os/2 from os/2 (or ecomstation or another operating system) or run os/2 "virtualized" here; the goal is to boot and run os/2 from a machine with no disk. So please refrain asking "why would you do this", "use a raid controller", "use reliable drives", etc. Finally, the GOAL is not to simply boot, but have the block device exposed over network or fiber channel; or basically run "diskless" via iscsi/FCoE or fiber channel.

Quick search on Google didn't show anything extremely useful (which hardware to use, which HBAs are supported etc) or how to accomplish this, so I'm turning to the community for ideas and pointers.

Thanks in advance -- J.

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Applications / Re: ssh - sshd
« on: July 11, 2023, 12:43:49 am »
sshd -D starts after the host keys are created (not sure what's the different between the above and ssh-keygen -A); but I can't login via password or by adding my private key to authorized_keys in my homedir). I'm using openssh-server from bitwise/netlabs; the latest to date.

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Applications / Re: openssh-server on ArcaOS
« on: October 24, 2020, 07:51:58 am »
Thank you for the detach command.
No, I do not see a pwd.db in c:\etc or /etc

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Applications / Re: openssh-server on ArcaOS
« on: October 24, 2020, 05:50:31 am »
I think I got it to work with Alex's package, after installing the 4 WarpIN packages, I had to mkdir c:\etc\ssh and copy /etc/ssh/*.* c:\etc\ssh\ then it worked.
sshd needs to be run in a shell, there's probably a better way.
I haven't found out where the root/root and test/test credentials are stored though.

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