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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Slow connection OS2World forum.
« Last post by Pete on March 10, 2026, 02:18:37 pm »
Hi Adrian

Yes, see discussion here https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,3979.msg49286.html#msg49286

Hopefully this will get resolved - website seems to be running OK so far today.


Regards

Pete
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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Slow connection OS2World forum.
« Last post by Adrian on March 10, 2026, 02:10:28 pm »
Hi,

I cannot repeat certain but I experience some times (very) slow reaction/connection with OS2World forum.
And not a delay of a few seconds, no really about 5 minutes after giving the inlogname and password.
The site acts slowly.
It doesn't matter when I log with WiFi or cable connection.
Are there people who have the same experience?
And the main question, what to do about it?

Greets,
Adrian
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Setup & Installation / ArcaOS 5.1.2 (update)
« Last post by Adrian on March 10, 2026, 11:40:57 am »
Hi,

Yesterday downloaded the ISO from ArcaOS 5.1.2
Made an install USB stick and updated the current 5.1.1 installation.
The update process works quickly.
It was a surprise that the new USB 3.0 Express Card with 3 USB 3.0 ports now works!

If someone is interested in what kind of Express Card this is;
Kalea-Informatique
Express Card 54mm
3x USB 3.0 ports 5G
FL1100 chipset

Bought by Amazon, €19,50

Works fine in my Lenovo T60.

What also stands out, is that the option JJS CDROM no longer is available during installation.
Is there a particular reason for, or is the standard OS/2 CDROM driver enough?

Cheers,
Adrian
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Applications / Re: ArcaOS 5.1.2 First Impressions !!
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on March 09, 2026, 09:50:44 pm »
It gives me an RPM error (Attached). This is not Arca Noae side, it is the Netlabs-rel.

I think I found my issue. The RPM got installed as i686, I don't know what I did wrong on the install procedure. I will need to check on that again.

Regards
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Thanks. I will look but it won't be until tomorrow. My wife and I are going to the gym together in ten minutes and we are going to be with friends for dinner and so I will be too tired when we get back and I don't want to screw things up.

I really appreciate everyone's help. It's been close to 25 years since I've used a "PC" (non Mac) that wasn't running as a virtual machine. Installing OS/2 was simpler back in the '90s. Just insert #1 3.5" and reboot. Then change 3.5" floppies when told. Simple! Not FAST but simple. You didn't have to have another computer for anything back then to setup a USB disk or external hard drive or burn a CD or DVD or ... Things are both better and worse than they used to be.

Back when IBM started showing off the beta for OS/2 2.0 the world looked like it was going to be a much better place before Windows '95 and all the [censored] from Redmond, WA. If only IBM had made and shown an INTELLIGENT ad for OS/2 instead of nuns walking down an outside hallway speaking Italian and then saying something about OS/2 at the end. Even those of us that knew what OS/2 was were trying to figure out what the [bleep] they thought they were doing with that ad.

If everyone in the world had seen OS/2 BEFORE Windows '95, I wonder what they would have thought when M$ brought out '95. Or would they have had to make it look noticeably different so they didn't look like they were ripping off OS/2, which is what they were doing plus making it look "pretty" with those fun colors.

Look at the pretty colors and believe what Bill Gates says it better. Get suckered into using a much less capable, secure, and dependable OS. But just look at those pretty colors.
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Applications / Re: ArcaOS 5.1.2 First Impressions !!
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on March 09, 2026, 07:49:56 pm »
Hello

For the next release of ArcaOS I want to recommend to adding the /Q switch on the config.sys of these ones
 DEVICE=C:\OS2Additions\VBoxGuest.sys /Q
 IFS=C:\OS2Additions\VBoxSF.ifs /Q
 IFS=C:\Programs\NDFS\NDFS32.IFS /Q
 CALL=C:\sys\apps\ifx\ifx.exe /Q

Please let me know if you think something horrible will happen to do that.

Regards
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Applications / Re: ArcaOS 5.1.2 First Impressions !!
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on March 09, 2026, 07:20:15 pm »
Hello

I did a clean install, my first issue is with ANPM, "Update all".
It gives me an RPM error (Attached). This is not Arca Noae side, it is the Netlabs-rel.

I will report it to https://github.com/bitwiseworks/rpm-issues/issues (If it was not reported already)

The rest seems fine, but I keep testing it.

Regards
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Applications / ArcaOS 5.1.2 First Impressions !!
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on March 09, 2026, 07:04:06 pm »
Hello

Today ArcaOS 5.1.2 was released. I just wanted to know your first impressions if you want to share it.

I will be installing it on VirtualBox first and later on real hardware.

Regards
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The eCS system will work. You have to use the proper tools to set up the stick. On the ISO is the directory AOSBOOT containing aosboot.cmd, aosboot.text and the WORK directory. The version of AOSBOOT has to match your ISO.
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D:\AOSBOOT>aosboot.cmd

  usage: aosboot <drive:> <path to .ISO file>

  example: aosboot Q: C:\downloads\ArcaOS-5.1.iso

  This script creates a bootable USB drive you can use
  to install ArcaOS. It supports booting both BIOS and
  UEFI-based systems. Any USB drive >= 2gb can be used
  as-is.  If the disk has more than one partition, you
  can enter any of the drive letters assigned to it.

  Warning! This process will repartition the USB drive
           and will DESTROY all of its current content.

  Since copying files to flash drives can be very slow
  this process may take 10-30 minutes.

  For additional details, please read "aosboot.txt"

  AosBoot v2 (c)2017,2019 RL Walsh, (c)2017,2019 Arca Noae

I can't remember if eCS came with a easy way to mount the ISO, on AOS oo.exe will do it, oo path\to\ISO. eCS might have had it.
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I have the ArcaOS-5.1.1-en.iso file copied to the USB drive. I have tried connecting it to each and every USB port on the front and the back, powering off the computer and powering it back on and ... it never sees the USB drive OR it doesn't recognize the file as an ISO file therefore it is not trying to install the contents of the file. Anything else I might be doing wrong?

Sounds weird. Did you correctly set up the stick? OS/2 can't boot of an USB stick, it actually creates a ram disk, copies itself there and boots of the ram disk.
Your first partition on the stick should be similar to this,
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The volume label in drive I is EFIBOOT.
The Volume Serial Number is 1909:0E31.
Directory of I:\

12-28-25  4:45p        16,047      0 a---  config.sys
12-28-25  4:45p     4,592,762      0 a---  boot1.bin
12-28-25  4:45p    12,213,555      0 a---  boot2.bin
12-28-25  4:45p       402,117      0 a---  boot3.bin
 3-01-26  5:32p         <DIR>      0 ----  efi
        5 file(s)  17,224,481 bytes used
                     55,274,496 bytes free

The efi partition is important along with the boot directory under it and boot containing,
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8-28-25  9:58a       107,936      0 a---  bootx64.efi
12-28-25  4:45p       785,521      0 a---  os2ldr.bin
 9-01-24 12:18p            13      0 a---  os2ldr.cfg
 9-01-24 12:18p           831      0 a---  ANdb.cer
 9-01-24 12:18p         1,200      0 a---  ANdb.crt

Your system should try to boot bootx64.efi



Here's part of the deal and I don't think it is a small one.

I have four computers with me right now.

1) A late 2019 27" Apple iMac which is my main computer which is too new for one of the main steps "If you are using a Mac" portion of the instructions so I got stuck there.
2) My circa 2002 iMac with MacOS 10.4 ... I changed my login password sometime between my current computer and that one. So that computer COULD have been good for the Mac instructions but I can't login to it.
3) A year 2000 Compaq Armada 500 laptop. I HAD FreeDOS 1.4 installed on it and then tried to install eComStation on it and now if I need an OS/2 computer I will need to get that up and running first before following the instructions at https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/usb/preparing-usb-msd-disks/ .
4) And the HP EliteDesk which has nothing on it.

Anyway, that is where I am. Once I hopefully get eComStation installed on the laptop then maybe I can get the next steps.
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