Re: dev-ports-os2 Digest, Vol 156, Issue 5

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> ** Reply to note from [email protected] Fri, 08 May 2020 12:00:02 +0000
>>   

As Salaam Aleikum!

>> Where can She find it? Hobbes perhaps? Have an excellent and trustworthy  ftp client here namely NFTP/2 both in FS and Windowed OS/2 version.
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> http://wisdomtree.info/os2/os2app.htm#9504536
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So She can feed this to NFTP/2 (windowed version so She can copy & paste 
the URL above.

>  large list,  SyncDir great for non system files, Dsync best for complete system backup.   
> 

Another option would be to use PM Backup/2 - it's behaviour is like my 
old and trusted BackAgain Pro/2 when She did a FULL backup every 
Saturday to a DAT74 tape labeled Week1, then Incremental backups 
Sun-Fri. Switch tape to Week2 and rinse and repeat :-) 3rd week, go back 
to 1st tape again - in this wey She would have two weeks backups 
available so if something went shitty in for example WSeB (my old 
workhorse of OS2) She used the following procedure for restoring it. 
Raname som unimportant file like autoexec.bat to autoexec.xxx, do a 
restore of autoexec.bat and if that went well, reformat C: do a FULL 
restore of C: where WSeB lives and CHKDSK c: /f - this was done from 
another functioning OS namely eCs20rc5 (Back Again Pro is visible there 
too). Then just shutdown ecs20rc4 and booting into WSeB which came up 
nice as you please :-) PM Backup functions like Ba/2 Pro - it can backup 
to tape but that avnue is closed as the new box is non-scsi and even 
USB-connected tape backup stations are horrendously expense. So the 
first backups will go to a 64Gib USB stick (2 of them, one for week1 and 
one for week2) until She gets funds to buy an USB-connected HD. 
Partition it up in two partitions namely week1 and week2 (probably via 
DFSEE and then use LVM to create the volumes on it. First week, make the 
Week1 partition visible (and thereby making the Week2 invisible), do the 
first week's backup to Week1, make Week1 invisible so Week2 would be 
visible, erase it (NOT format as it destroys the volume label!) and repeat.
>>>> 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
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>  Have you turned off cpu and bus cache while installing? Try it, then when done enable again.
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That animal i.e. bus cache don't exist in the BIOS setup which is 
Classical BUT Processors can be set to All, 1 or 2. But it would be best 
to create these bootable floppies so She could volumize all partitions 
now on the new box 1st HD, even the Win7 (C:) volume, 2nd C: for a 
modern DOS that can handle SATA and USB and 3rd C: for a hotted-up WSEB. 
Then try to install eCs 2.1 BusEd and feeding it with the latest ahci so 
it can access the SATA HD  properly. Or if Her trustee helps me paying 
$65 to ArcaNoae, She can download ArcaOS via wget (he recommended this 
download method as Her browsers refuses to download big files :-( and 
then install it first. With ArcaOS Air-boot will be installed and the 
volumes can be created with LVM inside ArcaOS, even the Win7 volume can 
be created and seting it to Startable. Lastly, after all data partitions 
are transferred over to the new box, install Win7 and force it NOT to 
create is's so-called 'recovery partition'. Will not use Win7 much, only 
stuff that requires an e-identifier AKA BankID and Her diabetes meter 
program.

>> She must pony up $65 to renew the subscription on ArcaNoae's site so She  can download drivers and ArcaOS itself. But can a new version of AHCI be 
>> found on the XEU site? It seems to be an self-extracting .EXE file, so  should She expand it first and place it on a floppy or does it suffice  to put the
>> self-extracting file on a floppy so the install process will  run it and install it?
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>  AHCI is for sata normal hard drive driver. May not be newer drivers. Did you enable such feature in bios?
>  

In the Classical bios it can be set to Ahci, ATA or RAID, no Sata option 
exist. But in the setup process for example eCs 2.1 BusED there is an 
option to load in additional drivers via the floppy, so if She puts the 
latest AHCI on the floppy, it should go in and the install would go to 
completion. Then the BIOS can be set back to use all processors again 
and using AHCI again.

>> Btw, durst She reindex the Sent folder on the old profile or wait after  tha new profile is created and then reidex the Sent folder? She have  sent mail
>> but they don't show up in the Sent folder and the Settings for  the mailer under the "Mail & Newsgroup" setting and there it's stated  that a Sent mail
>> should go to the Sent folder under the mail account,  not to any local file. And when it comes to the Helper section in the  Profile manager, can She just
>> leave them out - the only one that She  uses is for opening .pdf document via a lucide.cmd file which is global.  She's an old command line hound and
>> does most of the work via the  cmdline, in this case 4os2 instead of the standard command.exe file. For  example if you are in the y:sound dir and want
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>  Why wait, it is broken already.
> 

That was good news, the Inbox is NOT damaged so it can be moved to the 
new profile "as is" via the method you described before. But can it be 
migrated to the new profile so that the characters in th Inbox is 
converted to UTF-8? Having UTF-8, our Swedish tail-end chars should show 
up fine when it's time to migrate the mailer to SM 2.1 - tried it once 
but the three tail-end chars showed up funny but where not invisible but 
they looked as if small "sprouts" stuck up from the characters. And 
what's the command for migrating the Inbox to the new profile where the 
charset for it will be UTF-8? The Sent folder is already set to use 
UTF-8 charset.


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