Re: acpi needed

[email protected] wrote:
> ** Reply to note from [email protected] Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:00:01 +0000
>>   

As Salaam Aleikum!

>> Whhere woould the syncdir backup land, and can the location be specified  and should the syncdir program be placed at the TOP of the  mailer-invoking
>> *.cmd file? On She have 3.8Gib of space on a  newly-created W: partition meant to house the download of ArcaOS when  She and Her trustee have paid
>> the for the 1-year subscription that  allows Her to download not only ArcaOS but other programs, utils and  suchlike.
> 
>  All parameters can be set, at the top of cmd file is suitable.
> 

Good!

But when we are at the backup business, She will install PM Backup on 
the old system and let it backup the whole system on Saturday and doing 
Incremental backups Sun-Fri to an USB 64Gib stick. Next Saturday, switch 
USB stick and rinse and repeat :-) And on the 3rd week use the 1st USB 
again - thus She will have two weeks of backups available if something 
gets very shitty :-( Used exatly this method on the old box with 
BackAgain/2 Pro and backed up to two DAT74 tapes, one for the 1st week, 
tne other for the 2nd week. Nice and easy, just change tape after the 
Friday Incr backup had been done.

But you mentioned USB-connected HD as backup medium rather than USB 
sticks, but how much would such a HD cost, let say for a 100Gib HD na a 
500GB HD (the new box have two 500Gib HD's)


>> What do you mean by that Syncdir removes unneded files, for example the  various nstmp folders that contains files? She fervently hopes that it  don't
>> remove files from the Mail & Newsgroups structures as that would  spell doom for the mailer :-(
> 
>  A synchronize tool creates an exact copy, xcopy only copies never removes so in time is not a mirror, unless files in directory never change in number,
> only size.
> 
>> Another tack - She have trouble installing the eCs 2.1 Business Edition  on the new box, it TRAPS after doing the setup phase and reboot via F10.  Now
>> the Quick Installation Guide says that bootable floppies can be  created, but as the new box is empty of any OS at present, could it be  done on the old
>> box? With the bootable floppies She could get access to  LVM, thereby creating volumes of the partitions the guy who is  responsible for DFSee created
>> for Her including installiing BM. So the  best way is to remove BM, volumizing all existing partitions and  formatting the FAT32 volumes, the R: and the
>> V: (this will house Win7  programs that She will install, not on the primary Win7 volume so it  won't be clogged up. Or should She try installing ArcaOS
>> first when She  have downloaded it via wget (the author of the ArcaOS suggested this  method, bot what's the difference between wget and awget? The
>> Wget  that's installed now is very old, so it should probably be deinstalled  and the most current version installed instead, and wget / awget can 
>> certainly be fetched via hobbes - Her NFTP/2 client is VERY reliable  when it comes to downloading stuff from example hobbes.
> 
>  If you have a very new computer, ECS may need a newer version of ACPI, which Arca has. Why would you install both? If you have a new machine install
> the latest OS. For older computers, does not matter.
> 

She believes in having various flavours of OS/2 on the new box, first a 
hotted-up WSeB with the latest ACPI, AHCI, MultiMac, UniAud and perhaps 
other software too. eCs 2.1 (both Home and Business edition, got that 
for free from a guy at Mensys) and ArcaOS. eCs is required for using the 
SVTPlay function in a FF31 browser as it requires a Flash11 plugin plus 
the latest Odin, and the Flash11 is only licensed for eCs, not WSeB or 
ArcaOS (the guy responsible for ArcaOS pushes Her to only use ArcaOS as 
he say that eCs 2.1 (any version) are dead, but She suspects that's only 
sales talk. The new box is a Dell T22 w/8Gib RAM, a 2-core CPU and 2 
500Gib HD's. In the BIOS the fields for the SATA HD can be set to ACPI 
(or should it be AHCI?), SATA, ATA and RAID, so perhaps downgrading the 
setting to SATA and install the latest DaniS50S and ACPI drivers can 
solve this thing - it's stated in the docs for the DaniS506 that it can 
control most SATA controllers by itself.

Btw, you said that when reinstalling WarpIN on the old box, She should 
rename or copy the database file, delete the WARPIN (the LIBPATH, DPATH 
and BOOKSHELF in config.sys points to g:\os2ut\Warpin) so deleting the 
stuff in the WarpIn dir minus the database and then execute the latest 
WarpIn package so it will be installed. But after renaming back the 
database, how does She connect it to the newly-installed WarpIN?


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