Hi Sean Dennis

phoopar posted this in FSX-BBS

I wish I had an OS/2 box to play with this stuff.

Sean Dennis has a copy of 4.52 already set up for VirtualBox which
works great

I would like to great a copy of this is well, if you don't mind.
can you point me to were I can download it.

Thank you

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Ian Segers wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I would like to great a copy of this is well, if you don't mind.
can you point me to were I can download it.

Sure, Ian. It's at:

https://outpostbbs.net/files/OS_2.rar (case-sensitive)

It's OS/2 Warp 4.52 with a slightly older Virtualbox guest additions added
into it. Just unarchive it into your VBox "Virtual Machines" directory.

Please feel free to share that with anyone interested.

Later,
Sean

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Hi Sean Dennis

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I would like to great a copy of this is well, if you don't mind.
can you point me to were I can download it.

Sure, Ian. It's at:

https://outpostbbs.net/files/OS_2.rar (case-sensitive)

Thank you for this link to os_2

It's OS/2 Warp 4.52 with a slightly older Virtualbox guest additions
added into it. Just unarchive it into your VBox "Virtual Machines" directory.

and for this helpful information

Please feel free to share that with anyone interested.

Yes I will do that.

I have add it to my Virtualbox and seems to be working fine.

only one question it seems to be connected to internet so can I use internet
on it, as I can not connect to a site if not that this is fine as is it just a question
it good that is it is working as is to see the os-2 system, and again I thank you


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only one question it seems to be connected to internet so can I use internet on it, as I can not connect to a site if not that this is fine
as is it just a question

Head into your TCP/IP configuration & check to make sure it's set up. Unlike ArcaOS...you have to set up your configuration to use the LAN with DCHP.

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Hello, Sean!

09 May 20 02:52, from Sean Dennis -> Ian Segers, in URL @OFGHIUrl:

Sure, Ian. It's at:

https://outpostbbs.net/files/OS_2.rar (case-sensitive)

It's OS/2 Warp 4.52 with a slightly older Virtualbox guest additions
added into it. Just unarchive it into your VBox "Virtual Machines" directory.

Please feel free to share that with anyone interested.

Thanks a lot from me too. It's nice to have OS/2 again after years.


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Hi Don Lowery

only one question it seems to be connected to internet so can I use internet on it, as I can not connect to a site if not that this is fine
as is it just a question

Head into your TCP/IP configuration & check to make sure it's set up. Unlike ArcaOS...you have to set up your configuration to use the LAN
with DCHP.

Okay, thank you for this, I will check the TCP/IP configuration section and see what I can find.


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It's OS/2 Warp 4.52 with a slightly older Virtualbox guest additions added into it. Just unarchive it into your VBox "Virtual Machines" directory.
Please feel free to share that with anyone interested.

Thanks a lot from me too. It's nice to have OS/2 again after years.

If you decide to make the leap to ArcaOS...like myself & others...bought a
used Lenovo ThinkCentre (same type of system they use in retail outlets).
With a DVD drive...4 GB DDR3 (upgraded mine with another 8 GB) & an 8 GB SSD (which I replaced with a 1 TB laptop drive I had sitting around)...paid $50
for it (including shipping off of Ebay).

The only thing I haven't set up or found is the wireless drivers. Everything else is seen/usable. Can't even get an RPi with a complete add-on package for the price.

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Head into your TCP/IP configuration & check to make sure it's set up. Unlike ArcaOS...you have to set up your configuration to use the LAN with DCHP.

Okay, thank you for this, I will check the TCP/IP configuration
section and see what I can find.

Want to get a great laugh...head over to look at some of the networking hardware drivers. Worked as a temp decades ago to do a move for I believe
Ford Motor Company for an office. Had to set up the systems...make sure they ran under OS/2 & would hook up to the Token Ring network...then be seen on
the WAN.

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Hello, Sneaky!

Replying to a message of Sneaky to Sean Dennis:

only one question it seems to be connected to internet so can I use internet on it, as I can not connect to a site if not that this is
fine as is it just a question it good that is it is working as is to
see the os-2 system, and again I thank you

You probably need to change the settings on the VM in Virtualbox to bridged mode for the NIC.

Later,
Sean

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Hello, Andreas!

Replying to a message of Andreas Dissel to Sean Dennis:

Thanks a lot from me too. It's nice to have OS/2 again after years.

You are quite welcome! When I initially set up the VM, it was for my being able to write BBS doors on my Slackware-powered laptop. I was surprised at how many people wanted to use OS/2 but didn't know where to find it in my FB BBS group so I uploaded my VM to my website.

Later,
Sean

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Don Lowery wrote to Andreas Dissel <=-

If you decide to make the leap to ArcaOS...like myself &
others...bought a used Lenovo ThinkCentre (same type of system they use
in retail outlets). With a DVD drive...4 GB DDR3 (upgraded mine with another 8 GB) & an 8 GB SSD (which I replaced with a 1 TB laptop drive
I had sitting around)...paid $50 for it (including shipping off of
Ebay).

An 8GB SSD sounds pretty small - was it an MMC card? I know some vintage Thinkpads I've run into (mostly T450s) had a 2.5" SATA drive and a small-ish (8-16gb MMC card) that acted as a drive cache with the right Windows
software.


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An 8GB SSD sounds pretty small - was it an MMC card? I know some vintage Thinkpads I've run into (mostly T450s) had a 2.5" SATA drive and a small-ish (8-16gb MMC card) that acted as a drive cache with the right Windows software.

Didn't find anything when I got the drive out of there. Just a 2.5" SATA
drive. The new drive went right in & hums right along.

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Hi Sean Dennis

fine as is it just a question it good that is it is working as is to
see the os-2 system, and again I thank you

You probably need to change the settings on the VM in Virtualbox to bridged mode for the NIC.

Okay thank you, I will look into the bridge mode.

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Hi Don

Head into your TCP/IP configuration & check to make sure it's set up. Unlike ArcaOS...you have to set up your configuration to use the LAN with DCHP.

Okay, thank you for this, I will check the TCP/IP configuration
section and see what I can find.

Want to get a great laugh...head over to look at some of the networking hardware drivers. Worked as a temp decades ago to do a move for I
believe Ford Motor Company for an office. Had to set up the
systems...make sure they ran under OS/2 & would hook up to the Token
Ring network...then be seen on the WAN.

Okay will look into to this,thank you

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Don Lowery wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Didn't find anything when I got the drive out of there. Just a 2.5"
SATA drive. The new drive went right in & hums right along.

Congrats -- sounds like you got a winner.

Assistive SATA technologies served a purpose, but now it seems like a lot of hoops to go through, now that SSDs are getting cheap.

I bought a ton of Hybrid SATA drives, they were like having a SATA drive
with 4GB of cache on the side. Boot up times were no faster than SATA, but once you started loading your apps, they served out of the cache instead of the spinning drives.

Lenovo putting a MMC drive on to cache was similar, but they only had
Windows drivers for the cache - although you could do tricks like put swap
on there.


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SATA drive. The new drive went right in & hums right along.

Congrats -- sounds like you got a winner.
Assistive SATA technologies served a purpose, but now it seems like a
lot of hoops to go through, now that SSDs are getting cheap.

True. The system was from 2013...the m72 version of the system.

I bought a ton of Hybrid SATA drives, they were like having a SATA drive with 4GB of cache on the side. Boot up times were no faster than SATA,
but once you started loading your apps, they served out of the cache instead of the spinning drives.

This was a plain jane SSD from Sanyo. Just a black box which weighed nothing. Never having messed around with SSD's...was surprised how light it was. May eventually find a use for it...especially on the RPi.

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Don Lowery wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

This was a plain jane SSD from Sanyo. Just a black box which weighed nothing. Never having messed around with SSD's...was surprised how
light it was. May eventually find a use for it...especially on the RPi.

Lighter, less power used, nothing spinning to crash if you drop it --
they've changed the way I see a laptop.


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This was a plain jane SSD from Sanyo. Just a black box which weighed nothing. Never having messed around with SSD's...was surprised how light it was. May eventually find a use for it...especially on the RP

Lighter, less power used, nothing spinning to crash if you drop it -- they've changed the way I see a laptop.

Totally agree with you. If I'd had a nice sized SSD sitting around like I did the 1 TB drive I put in there...that would've been fantastic. Even thinking about getting a decent sized one for this box for the boot drive.

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