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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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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 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
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).
Invalid code for JFS 0000:B8FA
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.
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.
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%
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.
There was an error downloading Theme Font & Size changer
Try saving to a different location.