From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 00:01:12 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1722 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Wednesday 08 October 2008 Number 1722 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 ftp://ftp.pmoylan dot org up and running again : Peter Moylan 2 OS/2 on a flash drive : Dennis Nolan 3 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Mike O'Connor 4 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Ed Durrant 5 Re: Motherboards for eCS : Alan Duval 6 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Voytek Eymont" 7 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Mike O'Connor 8 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Voytek Eymont" 9 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Mike O'Connor 10 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Voytek Eymont" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:04:27 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: ftp://ftp.pmoylan dot org up and running again Somebody - I think it was Ian Manners - told me that my FTP server at pmoylan dot org was refusing connections. It should now be working again. It was a stupid error on my part. I introduced a new feature, and then tested it by banning practically everyone. And of course I forgot to remove that test filter. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:24:23 +1100 From: Dennis Nolan Subject: OS/2 on a flash drive Hi all I've just been reading about installing operating systems on a flash drive and wondered about whether any work had been done about installing eCS on flash drives? The more I think about it the more I like it. Imagine carrying about your whole system on a couple of flash drives. Regards Dennis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:07:57 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive Dennis Nolan wrote: > Hi all > > I've just been reading about installing operating systems on a flash > drive and wondered about whether any work had been done about > installing eCS on flash drives? > The more I think about it the more I like it. > Imagine carrying about your whole system on a couple of flash drives. > > > Regards > > Dennis. Hi Denis, Yes there is ongoing work - particularly trying to get eCS booting from Removable Partitioned USB media with WPS support. I was booting several Flash sticks/SD Media cards with a full-screen interface, into DFSee actually, with HPFS, JFS, LVM, FAT32 support last year (?), but that involved having the media formatted as a Big-floppy item - no partitions - and FAT16 format. Jan van Wijk (DFSee author) provided a small .iso that could be imaged onto a USB-flash device, usable on any computer with USB-boot support. If you look back through the archives on the following Yahoo Technical group: http://groups.yahoo dot com/group/dfsee-support/ -- Rainer Stroebel was the guy who gave the pointers, AFAIR See: http://os4you dot org/*wiki*-usb-boot-en.html I haven't been able to devote sufficient time recently to investigate further. Regards, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:16:24 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive Dennis Nolan wrote: > Hi all > > I've just been reading about installing operating systems on a flash > drive and wondered about whether any work had been done about > installing eCS on flash drives? > The more I think about it the more I like it. > Imagine carrying about your whole system on a couple of flash drives. > > > Regards > > Dennis. > > > Yes It has, I and several other OS/2 users who have an ASUS EeePC developed the method so that we could boot the system from eCS without having to wipe the standard Xandros system off the internal drive. In my case I boot from an SD card in the in-built card reader. The image is of course customised to the hardware - so if you're looking for a one-usb key fits all systems you'll be out of luck. The How To is up on Hobbes - just search on EeePC and you'll find a few variations. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:08:45 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: Motherboards for eCS Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Alan Duval wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After searching the Russian site it would seem that the INTEL DG31PR >> motherboard is the best for eCS 2.0RC5. >> It is rated as very good (Sept 2008) and everything seems to work. >> It is also available in Australia. > > As Intel have now released the G45/G43 integrated chipsets, I don't give > these a long life in the retail channel, especially at prices of $80-90 > (according to StaticIce). > > But thanks for the heads-up. The trouble is that eCS 2.0 RC5 may not install on their board with G45/G43 integrated chipset and any motherboard doesn't have a long life these days. Hence I feel that it's best to buy a MB that eCS 2.0 works on even if it's starting to date. Regards, Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:54:32 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive > Yes It has, I and several other OS/2 users who have an ASUS EeePC > developed the method so that we could boot the system from eCS without > having to wipe the standard Xandros system off the internal drive. In my > case I boot from an SD card in the in-built card reader. Ed, so you can run OS/2 on Asus Eee, what if anything doesn't work ? do you know if similar work is being done for the Acer's Eee equivalent ? (fwiw, the mainboard in my T3 Palm is made by Asus) -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:28:49 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive Voytek Eymont wrote: > >> Yes It has, I and several other OS/2 users who have an ASUS EeePC >> developed the method so that we could boot the system from eCS without >> having to wipe the standard Xandros system off the internal drive. In my >> case I boot from an SD card in the in-built card reader. > Ed, > > so you can run OS/2 on Asus Eee, what if anything doesn't work ? > do you know if similar work is being done for the Acer's Eee equivalent ? > > (fwiw, the mainboard in my T3 Palm is made by Asus) Hi Voytek, How did you find that out about your T3? Take it apart? =-O I wonder whether they also make the one for my Palm Tungsten E2? Regards, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:03:31 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive > Hi Voytek, > > > How did you find that out about your T3? Take it apart? =-O > I wonder whether they also make the one for my Palm Tungsten E2? I spilled a cup of hot tea over phone and two palms, the bottom Palm took most of the tea, and, didn't work so hot afterwards I was most annoyed, and, the following day, took apart and washed works like new I'll email you some pics -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:08:32 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive Voytek Eymont wrote: > >> Hi Voytek, >> >> >> How did you find that out about your T3? Take it apart? =-O >> I wonder whether they also make the one for my Palm Tungsten E2? > I spilled a cup of hot tea over phone and two palms, the bottom Palm took > most of the tea, and, didn't work so hot afterwards > > I was most annoyed, and, the following day, took apart and washed > > works like new > > I'll email you some pics Hi Voytek, That was really fortunate for you! :-) Will look forward to the pics. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 10 ==========================** Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:24:48 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive > That was really fortunate for you! :-) yes, I was quite pleased, after all, that T3 must be... 4 ? 5 ? years old > Will look forward to the pics. http://sbt dot net dot au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=79 I totally forgot how to open it, and, instead of stopping and thinking about it, tried forcing the slide off, damaging somewhat the not-tungsten body, luckily, that';s not visible when assembled the plastic slide on rhs rail was preventing it disengaging anyhow, whereas, if you're a Palm user, you normally dread being greeted bu the 'calibrate your digitizer' power on mssg, in this instance, I was quite pleased, when, once battery was plugged in, 'calibrate your digitizer' popped up above the 'asus' name, up and to the left, see the silver item with the black triangle ? the white out of focus label is a sony digitizer label http://sbt dot net dot au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=106&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 wonder what is , the black triangle can be pushed back inside, then, comes out -- Voytek ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------