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Programming / Re: Settings Notebook tutorial
« on: May 13, 2016, 10:06:34 am »
Hi John.


All the public resources for OS/2-eCS are stored on the EDM/2 Wiki.
Regards

Hi Martin,

You've done a great job consolidating OS/2 resources under EDM2. I particularly like the Config.sys Documentation Project.

Can I make a suggestion, one which I would find very useful?

With all the drivers mentioned, it would be really useful to include date, size and source of the latest file. OS/2 has been around for over 25 years, and some of the drivers may have many versions so it would be nice to know where to find the latest.

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Programming / Re: Settings Notebook tutorial
« on: May 13, 2016, 07:43:52 am »
One of these:



123
Setup & Installation / Memdisk
« on: May 12, 2016, 09:11:41 am »
Does anyone have any links for getting Memdisk working on OS/2.

I do have a Memdisk image which works, although I need to change it, but don't know how.

124
Applications / Re: OS/2 version of Win32 Disk Imager
« on: May 12, 2016, 09:08:07 am »
Thanks, I didn't realise that DFSee was able to do this.

125
Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 12, 2016, 09:06:55 am »
Hi John

I am not sure if this contains the same os2 image file but it does look like it may be of interest

   http://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/usbboot/?action=download


Regards

Pete

Hi Pete,

Indeed the file was very much of interest. Once I finally manged to get it installed on a USB stick it did actually boot up OS/2!

The only problem was it uses a MEMDISK image and a Greek keyboard is defined, so I guess I need to find out how to build a MEMDISK image and define the keyboard and locale settings for my use.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Backslash changes to long dash
« on: May 12, 2016, 07:59:25 am »
In case if my program does it, just disable the feature.
I can disable it by default in further versions, if you want.

Hi Sergey,

When I did a Shutdown of the Nice Enhancer daemon, I got my blackslash back.

127
Programming / Settings Notebook tutorial
« on: May 12, 2016, 07:52:00 am »
Although I'm familiar with the Settings Notebook, I have never acually tried to create one, and am looking for a tutorial to get started...

Anyone know of one?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Backslash changes to long dash
« on: May 11, 2016, 08:51:56 pm »
In case if my program does it, just disable the feature.
I can disable it by default in further versions, if you want.

Hi Sergey,

It probably is Nice Enhancer causing the problem...

I've only just installed it, and it is a nice program although I haven't fully investigated it yet.

I can't identify which notebook setting to change - there are so many of them.

I'm using v570 but haven't found the settings page shown in the image you have displayed.




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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 11, 2016, 12:04:15 pm »
Hi John

I am not sure if this contains the same os2 image file but it does look like it may be of interest

   http://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/usbboot/?action=download


Regards

Pete

Thanks Pete.

I downloaded this image and installed it on a USB stick using Win32 Disk Imager (couldn't find an OS/2 equivalent) but was unable to boot from the USB stick. I did try to install a FreeBSD boot image to make sure there was nothing wrong with the USB stick and that booted OK.

130
Setup & Installation / Backslash changes to long dash
« on: May 11, 2016, 12:00:21 pm »
For some reason my backslash key has turned into a long dash '─' not the normal dash '-'.

Anyone know what could have done this and how to rectify the situation.

Now I can only insert a backslash by pasting it in from the clipboard - not very convenient...

This what I have in config.sys:

BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS
COUNTRY=044,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
CODEPAGE=437,850
DEVINFO=KBD,UK166,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
SET LANG=en_GB
SET TZ=gmt0bst
SET ULSPATH=C:\LANGUAGE
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\UNICODE.SYS

131
Applications / Re: NTFS /Q
« on: May 11, 2016, 06:22:45 am »
Has anyone looked into porting NTFS-3G?

http://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/

This is open source and works well on Linux and FreeBSD.

132
Applications / OS/2 version of Win32 Disk Imager
« on: May 11, 2016, 05:33:44 am »
Does anyone know of an OS/2 equivalent of Win32 Disk Imager?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

It's a program designed to write a raw disk image to a USB stick.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 10:56:25 pm »
The answer to my quest for booting OS/2 from USB looks to exist here:-


http://de.os2.org/forum/diskussion/index.php3?id=126256

Quote
"Booting OS/4 from USB Flash is available now.

16MB archive file with 512MB example of the boot image can be obtained here.

To restore the image to Flash, you can use DFSee.
Last Updated on Sunday, 07 March 2010 07:24


ftp://os4.su/BootUSB512/BootFlash512.rar

Unfortunately the above file is password protected.... Anyone know how to download it?



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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 10:49:30 pm »

Use DFSee to set it up for FAT32 (it'll wipe it and put in a new MBR IIRC), then after it works, re-partition it and reformat it

DFSee seems like a maze to me....I've been through so many options... Created partitions, deleted partions, formatted... but when exiting out of DFSee and am back to an OS/2 prompt and a drive letter is assigned to a partition on my USB stick I cannot format it.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing Boot Manager on second disk
« on: May 10, 2016, 10:10:28 pm »
I'll give it a try, thanks.

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