Re: Installing OS/2 Warp 3 Connect in VirtualBox.

[Bob Plyler]

On 04/17/2013 10:34 AM, Tae Wong wrote:
> How do you install OS/2 Warp 3 Connect in VirtualBox? You will get an
> �partitions too small� message when you try to install it. How about
> swearing/obscenity in the groups? You are unable to reply in too older
> posts on usenet groups.
>

MAKE SURE that you are not trying to install on too large
a partition. Anything over 2 gig can cause problems.

A lot of the tools use 32 bit math, with 1 bit reserved
for sign. That means the maximum size can be 2147483648
bytes.


Bob Plyler

[Frank Beythien]

Even 2 gig may be too large. There was a limit of 512MB (or 506MB, IIRC)
for the boot partition at some time. But perhaps that was with OS/2 2.1
or so.

Frank

[Mr. G]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:34:32 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Installing eComStation on VirtualBox has no problems with too large
> partitions. You have installed it on VirtualBox and you are now
> getting errors after the virtual machine (OS/2 Warp 3 Connect) is
> started.

Yes, the limitations Warp 3 has were somewhat improved upon with Warp 4 and
further improved with eCS because of the bootable JFS file system eCS uses.
I'm somewhat perplexed as to why you would want Warp 3 also, if you have
successfully installed eCS.

If you would please provide details such as exactly what the error messages
say, or as in the previous case the name of the 'some "filename" ' the
system couldn't find from the diskettes, then maybe someone can offer a
better solution to your troubles.

[Shmuel Metz]

In <at896r...@mid.individual.net>, on 04/17/2013

at 08:49 PM, Frank Beythien <fbey...@gmx.de> said:

>Even 2 gig may be too large. There was a limit of 512MB (or 506MB,
>IIRC) for the boot partition at some time.

The limit depends on what file system you are using.

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[Alex Taylor]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:00:56 UTC, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spam...@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

> >Even 2 gig may be too large. There was a limit of 512MB (or 506MB,
> >IIRC) for the boot partition at some time.
>
> The limit depends on what file system you are using.

IIRC the DASD drivers prior to Warp 4 fixpak 5 or so had a major limit on
the size of disk they could handle. That's why IBM had to put updated
install floppy images on their Thinkpad FTP sites...

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Please take off hat when replying.

[Shmuel Metz]

In <mdq090pMZSKk-pn2-0HYcdXeq4VYu@localhost>, on 04/17/2013

at 09:51 PM, "Alex Taylor" <mai...@reply.to.address> said:

>IIRC the DASD drivers prior to Warp 4 fixpak 5 or so had a major
>limit on the size of disk they could handle.

My recollection is that the limits were not the same for FAT and HPFS;
IBM raised both, but not to the same size.

[Trevor Hemsley]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:00:56 UTC in comp.os.os2.misc, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spam...@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

> In <at896r...@mid.individual.net>, on 04/17/2013
> at 08:49 PM, Frank Beythien <fbey...@gmx.de> said:
>
> >Even 2 gig may be too large. There was a limit of 512MB (or 506MB,
> >IIRC) for the boot partition at some time.
>
> The limit depends on what file system you are using.

No, this is not true. Waarp 3 when first released had a major bug in
IBM1S506.ADD that meant that it could not handle drives larger than 512MB. Yes,
that's 512MB! There was an updated set of drivers that came out afterwards that
fixed this but then broke again when drives reached 8GB in size. I'd not be that
surprised to find that it broke again when we hit 128GB and I know that
os2dasd.dmd broke when we reached 512GB...

Nothing to do with file systems in this case although they have their own set of
limitations.

--
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Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

[ivan]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:58:42 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Note that eComStation can handle disks that are larger than 2.0 MB!
> VirtualBox can install it with no problems. But you are unable to
> install WordPerfect into your eComStation virtual machine. It says on
> the error message like this...
>
> File installation error: Out of memory.
>
> Solution: Free up system memory by eliminating TSR programs, etc.,
> and then retry.
>
> In this group, you cannot bump old posts.

How are you trying to install WordPerfect and on what size partition?
I assume this is the DOS version, if so what are the DOS settings in
Warp 3?

To use this group properly you need to get a dedicated news reader -
ProNews/2 from hobbes - and connect to comp.os.os2.misc

ivan

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[Dave Yeo]

Alex Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:00:56 UTC, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> <spam...@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> > >Even 2 gig may be too large. There was a limit of 512MB (or 506MB,
>>> > >IIRC) for the boot partition at some time.
>> >
>> > The limit depends on what file system you are using.
> IIRC the DASD drivers prior to Warp 4 fixpak 5 or so had a major limit on
> the size of disk they could handle. That's why IBM had to put updated
> install floppy images on their Thinkpad FTP sites...

Which are now at lenovo,
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS002748
Dave

[Mr. G]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:41:41 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you install OS/2 Warp 4.52 into VirtualBox?

Very easily.

[Bob Plyler]

On 04/26/2013 03:13 AM, Tae Wong wrote:
> You cannot go through the secondary boot disk when installing OS/2
> Warp 4.52 in VirtualBox. It catches up error messages on a black
> screen instead.
>

Make sure you have the virtualization extensions
enabled in the BIOS and in the VM settings.

Bob Plyler

[Bob Plyler]

On 04/26/2013 09:41 AM, Tae Wong wrote:
> How do you find the virtualization extensions for VirtualBox as a free
> download?
>

It's a setting in VirtualBox for the VM.
Under System/Accelleration, "Enable VT-x/AMD-V"

Bob Plyler

[Dave Yeo]

While on the subject, does "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" work when VirtualBox is
running under OS/2? I tried it once and the system trapped.
Dave

[Allan]

No, VT-X / AMD-V is not supported in Vbox/2

--
Allan.

It is better to close your mouth, and look like a fool,
than to open it, and remove all doubt.

[ivan]

On Wed, 8 May 2013 12:26:29 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> How do you reply into older posts on the group? Note that the title
> ends with a full stop (a punctuation mark).

Very simple. Go to http://xananews.techtips.br/ and download xananews
which is a dedicated news reader for win XP.

You fill in the information requested when you first start the program
- use a real news server that is local to you (for example I use
news.free.fr which is the news server of my ISP).

Once it has downloaded the list of news groups on the server you
scroll down until you get to comp.os.os2.misc, highlight it and click
on subscribe. You can then close that unless you want to subscribe to
more news groups.

Then highlight the newsgroup and click on 'Get Messages'. I would
recommend that you get messages from 1 April 2013 as this should
include all of your messages.

Once they have downloaded all you have to do to reply is highlight the
message and click the 'Post Reply' button.

ivan
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[Mr. G]

On Wed, 8 May 2013 14:42:26 UTC, "ivan" <iva...@free.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 May 2013 12:26:29 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How do you reply into older posts on the group? Note that the title
> > ends with a full stop (a punctuation mark).
>
> Very simple. Go to http://xananews.techtips.br/ and download xananews
> which is a dedicated news reader for win XP.
>

Just an FYI...the link you posted doesn't exist. The correct link is
http://xananews.techtips.com.br

[ivan]

Thanks, I didn't check it just took it from my bookmark archive -
which I will now update.

ivan
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[Mr. G]

On Sun, 12 May 2013 08:31:56 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You want to retrieve more replies for this topic. But this topic has
> no more replies.
>
Only the US federal Reserve Bank can make something appear from nothing.

[ivan]

On Mon, 13 May 2013 05:49:38 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, look. The topic now gets more replies (but with nonsense)!
>
> You have installed this virtual machine on night.

Just get a real news reader application and stop using google groups
THEN you will have a full threaded view of what is going on.

At the moment all I see is a post from you that is totally
disconnected from all the other posts so I have no idea what you are
commenting on.

ivan

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[Mr. G]

On Mon, 13 May 2013 05:49:38 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, look. The topic now gets more replies (but with nonsense)!
>
> You have installed this virtual machine on night.

I did not expect you to understand my reply. For that I apologize. I will
try to phrase it differently.
One cannot see, that which does not exist.

[Shmuel Metz]

In <G8df4sdtcWG8-pn2-0WHVppQd2OPR@localhost>, on 05/13/2013

at 05:10 PM, "Mr. G" <nos...@yahoo.com> said:

>One cannot see, that which does not exist.

C2H5OH.

[Mr. G]

On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:15:16 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a topic named Tamil sexual girls and adds. (But you have
> reported abuse!)
>
It may be off topic, but it is not abuse to advertise if it just points to
another web site. Ignore it.

> But again, the topic no longer gets more replies. How do you get more
> replies, Mr. G?

If there are none, the answer is obvious, otherwise, if you want to see all
replies, quit going to google groups. Use a dedicated news reader and set
it up to use one of the free servers. aioe.org is a good one. Stay away
from google.com and googlegroups.com

[ivan]

On Thu, 30 May 2013 23:58:24 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, but there are pornography in the mailing list. How do you ignore
> them? But you are going to end the thread title with a punctuation
> mark (the full stop).

Not knowing what you are replying to all I can say is for you to get a
proper newsreader client, stop using thunderbird and google groups as
I do not see anything you are talking about.

For a newsgroup client use XanaNews [win2000 and XP] or MPGravity [XP
and win 7] then use one of the free news servers and you will not get
the spam. You also need to learn to use the newsgroups.


ivan
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[ivan]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 05:02:48 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You will see a post called Tamil sexual girls (which contains
> pornography). Please remove it. However the MagicISO team is not good
> in grammar.

Not if you use a proper newsreader!

What you are seeing is because you use Google groups. Use a proper
newsreader and go direct to comp.os.os2.misc through a news server and
you will get correctly threaded replies and no odd posts.

ivan
--

[Mr. G]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 05:02:48 UTC, Tae Wong <seotae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You will see a post called Tamil sexual girls (which contains
> pornography). Please remove it. However the MagicISO team is not good
> in grammar.

So I went to googlegroups to see this for myself.

1) the post in question was put up 5 months ago
2) the post itself DOES NOT contain pornography. The words sex and sexy are
NOT pornographic.
3) all the post does is to invite interested people to click on the
provided link if you WANT to see that type of subject. Again, there is
nothing pornographic about the post!

I clicked on the link just for the hell of it, and what did I find?

"Blog has been removed"

"Sorry, the blog at tamilsexyvidoes.blogspot.com has been removed. This
address is not available for new blogs."

Conclusion: You have no complaint. There is no pornography in the post and
you would not have seen any unless you were seeking it out. When you see a
posting title that has nothing to do with the group subject, don't open the
post. Ignore it! You are not required to read every post that is put up.

Understand, adult pornography is legal in most countries of the world, and
the way to attract people to any site is to advertise. It's just that these
people advertise anywhere and everywhere they can, regardless of being on
topic or not. Links to pornography is not pornography itself, and you won't
see any unless you actually go looking for it.

I think it's time you let this go, get over yourself, and move on.