From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:36 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2034 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 09 January 2011 Number 2034 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: SCSI cards : Kris Steenhaut 2 Re: Boot Linux with Boot Manager : Alan Duval 3 Re: SCSI cards : Alan Duval 4 Re: SCSI cards : Alan Duval 5 Re: How to install Apache? : Paul Smedley **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:20:23 +0100 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: SCSI cards Peter L Allen ha scritto: > On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:47:32 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote: > > >> Alan Duval ha scritto: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have an Adaptec 2906 SCSI >>> >> Stone age .... no wonder you have had troubles after reinstalling eCS. >> >>> card installed in my new computer which works well with ECS 2.0 but >>> WIN 7 has no drivers for it. Some time ago I bought an Adaptec >>> AHA-2940 SCSI card thinking that both systems would recognize it. >>> However I wasn't aware that it's adapter is a smaller 50 pin connector >>> and not the larger 25 pin connector that the 2906 card has. >>> >> Get yourself out of trouble, install the AHA-2940 and look for an adapter 25 pins < --- > >> > 50 pins. Of course you would have to look in specialized shops/internet shops, and > these devices are rather pricy, but that would be better than messing around for ever, > wouldn't it? > > > Recommend this outfit > > http://store.stsi dot com/External-Cables_c_2754.html > > allenpl > > Forgot to mention: there are adapter cables too: one end 25 pins, the other end 50 pins. -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:36:12 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: Boot Linux with Boot Manager Thanks Peter. See my comments interspersed below. Regards, Alan Peter L Allen wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:25:27 +1100, Alan Duval wrote: > > >> I have not found an option as to where to install Grub or Grub2 for a >> long time. >> > > I've been playing with a disk installed with ECS (New for me) booted with BM > and a couple of weeks ago installed PCLinuxOS LXE and added it to BM menu > and it dual boots a treat. Now if I can do it, anyone can. > > So just in case I misremembered I plugged in a clean drive and installed BM > from DFsee. The closest distribution to what you used I had handy is Kubuntu 9.04. > This is Ubuntu with KDE desktop by default and I doubt there would be much > difference in the installer. Booted the live CD and when install starts it announces > a 6 step setup. First 3 are pretty generic then at step 4 it's "Prep Disk Space". > Here specify manual partition (advanced). > As a minimum I create /, swap, /home. > Step 5 is username - password setup. > Step 6 is the crunch - Lots of Blah - install with following settings - warnings re > data loss - list of partitions to be formatted. > Hot to click install button? Where's Grub going to end up? Install from here > will put it in the MBR, every time! > Whazzat "Advanced" button bottom RH corner of the screen? > Opens to advanced options, the main one being installing the boot loader > I must say that I haven't seen that button, or if I did, thought it referred to the partitioning as above. I'll install Ubuntu and have a look for it. At present I have installed Linux Mint Xfce as it recognizes my scanner with Simple scan whereas Ubuntu doesn't. However I find Simple scan won't print to my Xerox Phase 3125 printer. So if I install Ubuntu I'll have to go through the hassle of finding how to get the scanner working. I was able to write udev rules for Ubuntu 9.04 which allowed Xsane to access the scanner but don't know whether the same rules work with Ubuntu 9.10 onwards. > in a partition of your choice. In this case it displays them thusly. > > /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 BM > /dev/sda5 / > /dev/sda7 /home > > I indicated sda5 would do, away it went and enentually wanted a reboot. > Booted DFSee and added sda5 to BM menu. Reboot hung, no BM. > Started ECS install to stage of disk integrity check where it did it's > "fingerprint" thing. Reboot - BM - Linux up and running. > You can then tweak grub to show the Linux boot options or catch them > with ESC key on the way through. > I expect that DFSee has a function that would make using the ECS CD > unnecessary - but a bit too arcane for me - prolly better to use the ECS > disk entirely. > -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:47:06 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: SCSI cards Peter L Allen wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:47:32 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote: > > >> Alan Duval ha scritto: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have an Adaptec 2906 SCSI >>> >> Stone age .... no wonder you have had troubles after reinstalling eCS. >> >>> card installed in my new computer which works well with ECS 2.0 but >>> WIN 7 has no drivers for it. Some time ago I bought an Adaptec >>> AHA-2940 SCSI card thinking that both systems would recognize it. >>> However I wasn't aware that it's adapter is a smaller 50 pin connector >>> and not the larger 25 pin connector that the 2906 card has. >>> >> Get yourself out of trouble, install the AHA-2940 and look for an adapter 25 pins < --- > >> > 50 pins. Of course you would have to look in specialized shops/internet shops, and > these devices are rather pricy, but that would be better than messing around for ever, > wouldn't it? > > > Recommend this outfit > > http://store.stsi dot com/External-Cables_c_2754.html > > allenpl > > >> -- >> Groeten uit Gent, >> >> Kris >> Thanks Kris and Peter. That site you mention Peter looks to have the adapter required. However subsequent comments from Robert Traynor make me wonder whether I would be able to find a suitable driver for my WIN 7 64 bit setup for the Adaptec 2940 card, so may be best to do all my scanning with ECS using present Adaptec 2906 card. If I do install the Adaptec 2940 card, will ECS 2.0 recognize it or are special drivers required? -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:52:53 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: SCSI cards Kris Steenhaut wrote: > Peter L Allen ha scritto: >> On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:47:32 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote: >> >> >>> Alan Duval ha scritto: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have an Adaptec 2906 SCSI >>>> >>> Stone age .... no wonder you have had troubles after reinstalling eCS. Still it works with ECS. I guess at age 76 I'm rather stone age myself. >>> >>>> card installed in my new computer which works well with ECS 2.0 but >>>> WIN 7 has no drivers for it. Some time ago I bought an Adaptec >>>> AHA-2940 SCSI card thinking that both systems would recognize it. >>>> However I wasn't aware that it's adapter is a smaller 50 pin >>>> connector and not the larger 25 pin connector that the 2906 card has. >>>> >>> Get yourself out of trouble, install the AHA-2940 and look for an >>> adapter 25 pins < --- > >> 50 pins. Of course you would have to look in specialized >> shops/internet shops, and these devices are rather pricy, but that >> would be better than messing around for ever, wouldn't it? >> Recommend this outfit >> >> http://store.stsi dot com/External-Cables_c_2754.html >> >> allenpl >> >> > Forgot to mention: there are adapter cables too: one end 25 pins, the > other end 50 pins. I'll have a look at that option also. Thanks Kris, Alan -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:05:00 +1030 From: Paul Smedley Subject: Re: How to install Apache? Hi Peter, On 8/01/11 8:53 AM, Peter Moylan wrote: > I downloaded Apache 2 a couple of days ago, but now I find that I don't > know how to configure it. Is there a how-to or something similar out there? A web version of the docs is at http://httpd.apache dot org/docs/2.2/ To get the OS/2 version going is pretty easy. In apache2/conf there should be a file httpd.conf.sample - this is a sample configuration file for OS/2. All you should need to do is edit paths from /apache2 to wherever you have apache2 installed, and edit startup.cmd (in the apache2 directory) to the correct path, then run startup.cmd and you should have a listening web server running on port 80. Hope this helps, Paul -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===