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

Hi Christer

The ArcaOS update files are Warpin self-extracting .EXE packages and are 
installed by double clicking the file.

If you want to open the Warpin self-extracting .EXE packages and extract 
individual files WPIView is very handy.

WPIView is available in Warpin and zip packages from here 
http://trac.netlabs.org/vxapps/wiki/WikiStart


Regards

Pete


Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> ** 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.
>>
>> http://wisdomtree.info/os2/os2app.htm#9504536
>>
>
> 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
>>
>>  Have you turned off cpu and bus cache while installing? Try it, then
>> when done enable again.
>>
>
> 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?
>>
>>  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
>>
>>  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.
>
>
> Cul8er alligator!
> gaea - feminist & chunkakan