> > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... > >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD > >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to > >> that in the PC hardware IBM was selling, or even when it did.... > > I went to www.arcanoae.com, but some information was missing, such as GPT > > support and 64-bit support. > It runs on 64-bit CPUs as if on 32. AFAIK, there are no plans for foreseeable > future for a 64-bit kernel.
> I have no idea about GPT support. Does any 32-bit OS support GPT? > There are eCS mailing lists for those interested in clues to more of what's > going on. > ecs-techni...@yahoogroups.com > ecomstat...@yahoogroups.com > > I had difficulties with the OS/2 installers. In the case of Warp 4, an > > Iomega Zip drive showed with two different, consecutive letters, making it > > difficult to find the proper drive letters. > That kind of stuff is what using the Dani drivers usually alleviated. I don't think Dani drivers existed when I installed OS/2 Warp 4 upgrade from OS/2 Warp 3. >From Wikipedia, eComStation does not support GPT. But it is possible for a 32-bit OS. Examples are Haiku, FreeBSD i386 and NetBSD i386. How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups? from Gregg Eshelman: > [-- Attachment #1 --] > [-- Type: multipart/alternative, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 3.0K --] > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_Part_3887213_246094375.1493105714797" > Content-Length: 3052 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Have you ever installed OS/2 Warp 3 Upgrade from floppies? I did, on a > Packard Bell 486 SX system with a 63 Mhz Pentium Overdrive. For some reason > once it got to the GUI stage and I was feeding it disk after disk, I'd have > to keep > the mouse in constant motion while it was reading a disk or it'd freeze. > What was the upgrade from? OS/2 2.something, also on floppies. I picked up > both really cheap somewhere, and after going through the process of > installing 2.x then the Warp 3 upgrade I found out why it was cheap. ;) > I also found out that tinkering with its massive config.sys file in any way > was an easy way to cause big problems. I can no longer remember if OS/2 Warp 3 upgrade was all from floppies, or if is was on a CD but with three kicker/boot floppies to start from. Upgrade was from OS/2 2.11 with fixpacks. I could modify or add a few lines in the config.sys but not the whole thing. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user