From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:01:12 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1723 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 09 October 2008 Number 1723 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Mike O'Connor 2 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Ed Durrant 3 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Ed Durrant 4 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Voytek Eymont" 5 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Mike O'Connor 6 Re: OS/2 on a flash drive : Voytek Eymont" 7 How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant 8 Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Voytek Eymont" 9 Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Mike O'Connor 10 Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Peter Rehfisch" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:34:08 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive Voytek Eymont wrote: > > >> 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 Hi Voytek, Obviously you're a very experienced photographer! :-) That's an excellent gallery of shots of the mishap. Maybe that pierced triangle is an accelerometer? In case the T3 is falling? Regards, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:02:26 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive Ed Durrant wrote: > 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. Forgot to add the link - here you go: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=Eeepc&pushbutton=Search ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:12:44 +1100 From: Ed Durrant 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) > > Yes eCS is completely working on the EeePC, the one remaining "quirk" is that the WiFi drops out after a time - we are using unsupported mode of GenMAC however, so this remains a trial and error to fix this. I created (with a lot of help from several other people) the SD card solution (which also works from a USB memory key). Sigurd Fastenbach who was one of the helpers, has done similar work on his Medion, MSI Wind Clone. The Acer Aspire one (which I presume you are referring to) has some similarities to both systems, so it may be able to be made to work. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:05:06 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive >> wonder what is , the black triangle can be pushed back inside, then, >> comes out > Maybe that pierced triangle is an accelerometer? In case the T3 is > falling? hmm, didn't even know I had one... btw, did you spot the vibrator ? -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:15:49 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive Voytek Eymont wrote: > > > > >>>wonder what is , the black triangle can be pushed back inside, then, >>>comes out >>> >>> > > > >>Maybe that pierced triangle is an accelerometer? In case the T3 is >>falling? >> >> > >hmm, didn't even know I had one... > >btw, did you spot the vibrator ? > > > Hi Voytek, I'm not into PCBs etc. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:24:57 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: OS/2 on a flash drive > I'm not into PCBs etc. Mike, I have no clues about PCBs, either, but, this is a little electric motor http://sbt dot net dot au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=148 -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:49:11 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted Hi, I need to list all directories under a directory in size order. I have FM/2 which appears to have this feature but it never finishes building its index. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you know of a different tool that will do this. I am trying to reduce the size of a tree of directories so that the total size comes down small enough to fit on a standard DVD-R disk. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:38:22 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted > Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you > know of a different tool that will do this. I think... I have... used to have... ? a rexx script to backup to CDs... I thought it did something like that...? if I can find it... something like sysfiletree ? /* get HD specs */ arg1=substr(arg1,1,1) source=SysDriveInfo(arg1) PARSE VAR source sdrive sfree stotal slabel arg2a=substr(arg2,1,1) target=SysDriveInfo(arg2a) PARSE VAR target tdrive tfree ttotal tlabel /* convert bytes to MB */ sfree = TRUNC((sfree/(1024*1024)),,) stotal= TRUNC((stotal/(1024*1024)),,) sused = stotal - sfree tfree = TRUNC((tfree/(1024*1024)),,) ttotal= TRUNC((ttotal/(1024*1024)),,) tused = ttotal - tfree -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:45:18 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted Ed Durrant wrote: > Hi, > > I need to list all directories under a directory in size order. I > have FM/2 which appears to have this feature but it never finishes > building its index. > > Can anyone tell me if there is a way to do this with FM/2 or if you > know of a different tool that will do this. > > I am trying to reduce the size of a tree of directories so that the > total size comes down small enough to fit on a standard DVD-R disk. > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. Hi Ed, Sent you a private mail as I had included a graphic and a sample output text file of >100KB. Regards, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 10 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:14:20 +1100 From: "Peter Rehfisch" Subject: Re: How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted Ed Durrant wrote > I need to list all directories under a directory in size order. I have >FM/2 which appears to have this feature but it never finishes building >its index. > Under eCS, if you RMB on the directory and chose Folder actions -> Show tree size it seems to do it. Peter R ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------