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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 10:09:04 pm »
I would love to use JFS but I can't format with any filesystem.

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Applications / Text mode program object in mode co80,50
« on: May 10, 2016, 11:24:10 am »
If I create a text mode program object, can I make it start in mode co80,50?

Or set various environment variables before starting it up?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 11:05:57 am »
Hi John, in DFsee under scripts there should be options Make FAT32 Data (USB) disk >> and similar for FAT16. Use those and follow directions.

Hi Dave,

The problem is I have an 8GB drive and FAT16 has a max partition size of 2GB.

I did create a 2GB FAT16 partition using DFSee but was unable to access it outside of DFSee.

Maybe the drive itself needs to be configured in some way for OS/2 to access it...

Should I completely wipe it first?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 08:25:54 am »
Hi All

There was a bootable USB flash drive webpage with software and instructions... possibly a .ru website/ftp site... that I found a couple of years ago. Yes, you can boot from usb flash drive.

Aha!  Found the wiki http://os4you.org/wiki-usb-boot-en.html - check out section 9.3.1; that is what you are looking for. I can state that it does work but I seem to recall there were some limitations - cannot remember what though.


Regards

Pete

Hi Pete,

Thanks for pointing out that interesting site. I find it difficult to find my way round it. Seems very much like work-in-progress or probably more realistically work abandoned.

Unfortunately the reference you provided to section 9.3.1 has a link to a downloadable file which is password protected.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 10, 2016, 08:07:33 am »

Briefly, the basic setup is:
Create a small (50 meg is more than enough) FAT16 partition on the stick.
Make the remainder of the stick into either HPFS or JFS (I use JFS, and it must be large enough to contain whatever you want to include, which could be the OS/2 or eCS, installer).

Hi Doug,

I bought an 8GB USB 2 Kingston Data Traveler SE9 Pen Drive yesterday with idea of trying this out.

It was an empty drive formatted as FAT32. I tried reformatting it but no option worked.

I used DFSee to delete and recreate various partitions including a 1GB FAT partition but nothing was accessible outside of DFSee.

I used DFSee to remove the partition and then recreated one. LVM sees the partition but I can't assign a drive

Only DFSee seems to be able to access the drive.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing Boot Manager on second disk
« on: May 09, 2016, 11:14:52 am »
If I reverse disks (ie boot order) I can't boot from the second disk.

I guess DFSee is the only option.... Although if I booted from a Linux system I guess I could one partition as bootable.

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Setup & Installation / Re: How to boot without Boot Manager
« on: May 09, 2016, 10:47:50 am »
I just tried rebooting having removed Disk1 and on bootup was greeted with

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Invalid code for JFS 0000:B8FA

and the system stopped.

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Setup & Installation / How to boot without Boot Manager
« on: May 09, 2016, 10:35:47 am »
I currently have a system with two disks. Disk1 has Boot Manager  and Disk2 has a couple of partitions marked as Bootable.

I want to remove Disk1 but cannot install BM on Disk2 and can't mark either partition on Disk2 as startable - at least can't find an option for doing this via LVM.

How do I go about booting from Disk2?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 09, 2016, 10:26:14 am »
Can anyone explain why it isn't possible to boot (or install) OS/2 from a USB pen drive?

To answer your question, you cannot get access to USB drives early enough in the boot sequence to make it work.

It seems strange that under normal circumstances OS/2 can't boot from a USB stick, whilst Linux, FreeBSD and even Windows can. I don't really understand why or where this restriction lies... I guess it would need OS2KRNL modifications....

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However, it IS possible. I have done it by hacking the bootAble project, but it is not, yet, properly documented.

Briefly, the basic setup is:
Create a small (50 meg is more than enough) FAT16 partition on the stick.
Make the remainder of the stick into either HPFS or JFS (I use JFS, and it must be large enough to contain whatever you want to include, which could be the OS/2 or eCS, installer).
Create a bootAble CD image (you need to understand how bootAble does that).
Manually modify that to remove the MEMDISK stuff (The QSINIT RAMDRIVE will be used).
ZIP that whole partition (ZDRIVE.ZIP), rather than use TAR as bootAble normally does.
Follow the instructions in the QSINIT package to be able to boot from the QSINIT PAE RAMDRIVE.
Manually put the rest of the bootAble stuff (anything that normally ends up on a CD/DVD, or in the old RAMFS RAMDISK) onto the second partition, and modify CONFIG.SYS (must be in the ZIP file) to have proper paths etc.

Now, if your computer will boot the QSINIT loader, that will unzip the file into the RAMDISK (must be FAT16), then boot from it. Note that you will have no access to the second partition until the USB driver gets loaded, and initialized (usually around the time that the GUI starts up), so anything that is needed earlier must be in the ZIP file that gets loaded to the QSINIT RAMDISK. Also remember that anything in the RAMDISK must be FAT16, with 8.3 file names.

Much experimenting is probably required, and there are a couple of variations, if you want to play with the QSINIT RAMDISK.

This sounds very interesting...

I wonder if it's possible to script this process, as it sounds quite error prone for someone who wants to try it out.

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Setup & Installation / Booting OS/2 from USB pen drive
« on: May 08, 2016, 09:01:56 am »
Can anyone explain why it isn't possible to boot (or install) OS/2 from a USB pen drive?

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1
« on: May 08, 2016, 07:05:48 am »
John, do you have %TEMP%, %TMP% and %TMPDIR% correctly set pointing to a writeable volume? Probably should use \ in %TEMP% and %TMP%. IIRC Firefox first saves to %TEMP%

Thanks very much Dave.

That was the problem.

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1
« on: May 07, 2016, 07:15:42 pm »
It can be found under the menu item add-ons and than go to the site with add-ons. Probably by typing the "Theme Font & Size Changer" you will find it quickly.

Thanks, I did find it, but....

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There was an error downloading Theme Font & Size changer

For some reason Firefox will not allow any downloading.

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Networking / PXE booting OS/2
« on: May 07, 2016, 05:15:56 pm »

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Applications / Re: File comparison editor wanted
« on: May 07, 2016, 05:04:55 pm »
That looks like just what I'm looking for... but I can't find anywhere to download it from..

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Applications / Re: Firefox 38.2.1
« on: May 07, 2016, 03:04:07 pm »
My major problem with Firefox is when I try to download something and get:

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Try saving to a different location.

I've looked at various solutions but nothing has worked so far.

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