Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1723
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:01:12 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Thursday 09 October 2008
 Number  1723
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
2  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
3  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
4  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
5  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
6  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
7   How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
8  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
9  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
10  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted : Peter Rehfisch" <gillpete at vic.australis dot com dot au>

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Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:34:08 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Mike O'Connor">
>   
>> 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
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Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:02:26 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
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
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Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:12:44 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive

Voytek Eymont wrote:
> <quote who="Ed Durrant">
>
>   
>> 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.

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Date:  Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:05:06 +1100 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive

<quote who="Mike O'Connor">

>> 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

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Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:15:49 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive

Voytek Eymont wrote:

><quote who="Mike O'Connor">
>
>  
>
>>>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

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Date:  Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:24:57 +1100 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  OS/2 on a flash drive

<quote who="Mike O'Connor">

> 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

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Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:49:11 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
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.
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Date:  Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:38:22 +1100 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  How to use FM/2 to show directory sizes sorted

<quote who="Ed Durrant">

> 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

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**= Email   9 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:45:18 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
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
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Date:  Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:14:20 +1100
From:  "Peter Rehfisch" <gillpete at vic.australis dot com dot au>
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
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