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The eComStation Demo CD is a way to demonstrate the look and feel of the eComStation desktop. It will boot directly from CD and cannot be installed onto harddrive, it runs entirely in system memory. Another popular name for this approach is 'Live CD' (like Knoppix for example). Write the unzipped files plus all this to an iso (CD image). For your own convencience: keep pathnames short (DOS style). Next: - open an OS/2 full screen window - copy the sfix41 files to a temporary directory on the VM harddisk (do NOT use sfix41 as a name but e.g. Sf41) - create a temporary directory c: archive - create a temporary.

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  2. OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 used 386 memory management, ran almost all DOS programs, and ran most Windows applications as well. IBM now supports clone computers, and has largely abandoned its PS/2 Microchannel family for the same PCI, ISA, IDE, SVGA architecture everyone else uses.

eComStation 2.2 Beta is the last and final release of eComStation. eComStation is a modification of OS/2 that kept OS/2 development alive.

eComStation 2.2 Booting Up -- This boot screen is new in 2.2.

eComstation 2.2 displays this new bootloader before booting up. This bootloader lets you boot Windows 7 alongside eComStation (not shown) and lets you boot eComStation 2.x from JFS volumes, which are much newer and better, for instance, support up to 2TB disks rather than 64GB, than the HPFS that OS/2 formerly required for boot volumes.

eComStation 2.2 displays this when it boots.

This is the eCS Menu.

eCS includes Firefox 10.

eCS also includes Netscape 4.8 and SeaMonkey 2.14, which corresponds to Firefox 17, is available.

Flash 11 is included, but it can be a bit buggy. It works fine for most use though. This is based on the Windows version of Flash 11.

eCS includes some utility apps. More are on the second CD, including a virus scanner for Windows viruses. These are not shown on this screenshot. The icon Editor dates back to OS/2 Warp 4 -- however, OS/2 never included a zip viewer/extractor or calculator , relying instead on third party applications and the Windows calculator, so these inclusions are new to eCS. The Calculator, like many eCS apps, is programmed in PM/REXX, a unique OS/2 language also found in a similar form on AmigaOS.

eCS includes a PDF reader based on the engine used by Qt 4, Qt 5 and the like; the popularity of Qt in linux means this engine is widely used to view PDFs in Linux. However, the UI is not written in Qt4, even though eCS 2.2 now includes the Qt 4 libraries. (this image is in 128 colors to reduce file size)

The inclusion of Qt allows eCS to support many (non-bundled) Linux Qt apps like qbittorrent, a torrent client.

eCS includes some games, such as Solitare. A free Enertainment Pack is available with more games. In addition, several Java and Qt Games have been ported. There was also a port of Simcity to OS/2, and many DOS games will run on Ecomstation, if you have a DOS compatible PC.

A typical eCS control panel. This one is designed specifically for eCS and not found on OS/2.

This is one of many eCS specific driver installs; OS/2 had a very poor system for installing hardware after the fact. A similar system installs video drivers, and another similar system installs network drivers and protcols. These all replace the antique OS/2 'selective install' procedure, as shown:

This dialog is no longer used in any significant fashion in eCS.

eCS includes remote access apps, which are new in 2.2. RDP client is java based, and uses the also new-in-eCS 2.2 OpenJRE 6 based on Win32 JRE 6. Historically, OS/2 has had a Java presence, but since IBM left the platform, updates have been slow and buggy. OpenJRE 6 is the first major update to the java framework for eComStation or OS/2 in years.

The complex LAN configuration tool in eCS references obsolete terms like DDNS rarely used today. It was originally developed in 1997 for an OS/2 fixpack or the like and not much changed since.

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The eCS help tool is new to eCS and not found in OS/2. OS/2 has had online help for many years, but used another tool, an older design.

The eCS tool is called 'NewView'. Stattools excel mac download.

eCS includes quite a lot of setup tools of varying levels of obsoleteness. (This photo has had it's quality reduced; the backgrounds are not 100% accurate)

This tool, the Hardware Inspector, seems focused on pre-PnP era PCs.

The warpIN package manager on the other hand is recent, though a couple newer packages use the 'yum' command line installer ported from Linux, also included (not shown).

eCS includes a few tools for printing, one for old Lexmark printers, one for old printer types of several makes, but the newest tool, added in eCS 2.x, is CUPS, which is again a port from Linux (and OS X). This supports many fairly recent printers and standards, though the version and driverset included is not the most complete or newest.

eCS does not include a Painting program, but it does include the Windows 3.1 painting program, and supports running it via it's Win16 layer. Because of the way the VESA (Panorama driver, new in eCS 2.x; prior eCS and OS/2 versions supported VESA but less well) driver works, Windows 3.x programs display somewhat oddly. In addition, they cannot access or view files on a JFS or HPFS drive with >8 characters or certain other conditions, such as very large files. In general, intense Windows 3.x work should be done on a FAT16 drive, not the boot drive. (OS/2 used to support installation to FAT16, but no longer does.) Nonetheless, Windows 3.x programs run better under OS/2 than they would on new hardware running Windows 3.x directly, since VESA is supported for graphics, modern disk accessing schemes and SATA disks work, and there is a driver available for wrapping the OS/2 sound drivers, which in turn can wrap a ALSA HDAIntel driver for modern PC sound support. Also, Windows 3.x is limited to 64MB of available memory, like a real Windows 3.x box, no matter how much memory OS/2 has. Finally, Win32s support is only up to version 1.25.

Many very old programs, like this Telnet client from the 1994 TCPIP pack for OS/2, are included with eComStation.

Another example is this somewhat cumbersome but functional FTP client. Many OS/2 FTP clients are available that are better, and you can always use FireFTP for Firefox.

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eCS doesn't include an Office Suite -- Serenity offers OpenOffice 3.2 for it, however. Before we look at that, here's a vintage 1996 office suite running on eComStation -- Lotus Smartsuite '96 for OS/2. This Suite is mostly Win32 code ported using IBM's 'Open32' framework, which was very incomplete and thus meant quite a lot of code had to reprogrammed to native OS/2 API code. Innotek continued development along these lines, with the Innotek runtime increasing completeness of the Win32 API layer, and then the Odin framework, which is used for the Flash 11 port to eComStation, is the final result of this work. None of these efforts are anywhere near as functional as wine, though Odin uses some Wine code, and as such is GPL-licensed.

This picture shows a Win32 app, mirc 6.x, running using Odin. The application was not modified and thinks it is running on Windows. Most applications, however, will require some modification or packaging to run properly on Odin.

This is the OpenOffice 3.2 suite for eComStation 2.2. This is the final version. It behaves identically to the suite on Windows.

eComStation 2.2 includes the 4OS/2 command prompt to replace the standard OS/2 command line, which is not much more capable than DOS 5, other than being 32-bit. The standard command prompt is also included, as well as a seperate DOS prompt for running DOS-based applications, both 32-bit and 16-bit.

eComStation includes Write, as well as all the other Win16 accessories you'd expect. Write is the only word processor eComStation includes, though there is a text editor provided in both CLI and GUI form as well as the MSDOS editor for the DOS prompt.

One of the newest tools in eComStation is the Volume Manager, confusingly titled 'installation volume manager' because it was originally written for the install procedure. Myanmar text font download for mac. The IBM LVM.exe and GUI LVM managers, which are cumbersome and confusing, are being phased out; hence, in 2.2, this is now the only volume manager (disk partitioner) to get an icon (the other ones are still in the C:OS2 directory).

Early on in OS/2 the lack of a decent file manager caused many to settle for the Windows 3.1 one. This became inadequate once HPFS became the norm, as the Win16 file manager is not well suited to managing such drives.

Luckily, although eCS still does not bundle any very good file managers (just enhances the Presentation Manager a bit to make file management slightly less confusing), the FM/2 file manager is a free download and is still updated. Although complex, it is capable and well coded.

Early on many vendors produced software for OS/2. Even late into its life critical software like Java 1.4, Acrobat 3, Flash 5 and 7, Mozilla 1.0, were ported either by the vendor or by third parties or IBM. Shown here is Acrobat 3. Whereas Acrobat 3 is a native OS/2 product, the successor on OS/2, Acrobat 5 (not shown) used the Innotek runtime which included a complete emulated Windows NT enviornment, a primitive predecessor to Odin. Acrobat 5 was the final version of Acrobat comaptible officially with OS/2 (reader only). Also ported to OS/2 in the later stages of it's life was StarOffice 5.1 (native port, to the degree that StarOffice on any platform is native). StarOffice5.2 was not ported, but users reported success installing it on Odin. OpenOffice 2.x was ported as well, but this port cost money. The final port in the StarOffice/OpenOffice line was OOo 3.2, shown earlier.

Due to the dated nature of the kernel, eComStation includes an ACPI wizard -- but the wizard does not setup sleep mode as eComStation does not support that (unless you have an antique APM PC), it is merely to allow eCS to run and support SMP on systems that require ACPI and to allow fan control.

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The main IDEA of the project was taken from eComStation DemoCD. My version has smaller memory requirements (for eCS DemoCD => 192 Mb!!!). Tools needed for CD/DVD making:
  1. Distributive of OS/2™ Warp 3.0 + XR_W044 + XR_D003
  2. Distributive of OS/2™ Warp 4.0 + XR_M017 + XR_D003
  3. Distributive of OS/2™ Warp 4.52 (MCP2, ACP2) + XR_C006 + XR_D003
    + with additional drivers Os2Ahci, DaniS506, DaniAtapi, DaniDASD, RamFS, NTFS, Fat32, JFS/UDF etc.
  4. BCDW 1.50z (for loader menu)
  5. BCDW 2.01a (for fdd loader) - loader.rar
  6. cdimage, oscdimg from Microsoft or mkisofs (for iso-image creation)
  7. mkbootcd (for making boot-catalogue)
  8. Winimage (for working with HDD/FDD images)
  9. Nero Burning ROM.
  10. Memdisk/OS2CSM/PmVdmCC tools by Veit Kannegieser.
  11. Emulatiors. Connectix/Microsoft VirtualPC & VirtualBox.
Bootable CD creation is made in MS Windows environment.

System requirements for Bootable CD.

HDD Emulation + OS2CSMIso. (Accessible hard drives, floppy, & all devices which work via BIOS INT13h calls. CD/DVD unavailable by design.)
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.*
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 8 Mb.*
FDD 2.88 Emulation + OS2CSM. (Accessible hard drives, CD/DVD, all devices which work via OS2DASD/LVM. floppy unavailable by design.)
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.
  • CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 8 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 32 Mb.
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp3 HDD Em.) >= 4 Mb.*
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode & HDD SWAPPING (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] HDD Em.) >= 8 Mb.*
MEMDISK + OS2CSM. (Accessible hard drives, floppy, CD/DVD, all devices which work via OS2DASD/LVM.)
  • Switchable GUI/CONSOLE-mode (OS/2 Warp4[4.5] MEMDISK) >= 32 Mb.
CPU selection:
For Os/2 v 3.0 (??.??? kernel) - 386SX CPU+
For Os/2 v 4.0 W4 (14.097 kernel) - 386SX CPU+
For Os/2 v 4.5 W4 - 486SX CPU+ (14.105_W4 kernel)
For Os/2 v 4.5 UNI - 486SX CPU+ (14.105_UNI kernel)

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For Os/2 v 4.5 SMP - 486DX CPU+ (14.105_SMP kernel)
* NB! When swapping to HDD it is recommended to use HDD working in LBA translation mode, i.e. > 504 Mb.

CD contents.

Here are the components of my CD:
  • Craig's PCI Hardware Sniffer.
  • Browsers: FireFox, Mozilla, Netscape 4.61, SeaMonkey (start them from RAMFS or HPFS partition ONLY)
  • DFSEE.
  • FC/2 2.30, 2.40.
  • GRADD 0.99 + SNAP Graphics drivers.
  • IBM Theseus v3 (and v4).
  • Innotek Flash 7 Player.
  • MPTS / TCPIP 32Bit (or 16Bit) + support over 80!!! netcards. OpenGL libraries
  • mplayer, Warp Vision, Z! Player.
  • ODIN32 XP.
  • 7zip, arj, rar, lxlite, nelite, hiew, (un)zip, biew, sl, emx lib..

CD operating manual.

!!!NB : if you have more then one CD/DVD device you must boot from the first one. HDD not required, but recommended for swapfile.
If your system does not supports CD booting, loading is possible via bcdl bootable floppy (http://bootcd.narod.ru/) to run this CD on PCs w/o BIOS support for ELTORITO ATAPI CDROM BOOT (look BCDWLOADER.RAR = 3 images of fdd-loader), BUT in some cases:
1) only FDD 2.88 Emulation (HDD Emulation now works only in Warp 3.0);
2) FLOPPY must be disabled. Otherwise IBMINT13.I13 traps when in HDD Emulation mode.
The booting process is also possible using 'Ontrack Disk manager' bootable floppy ('Press spacebar to boot from diskette or Press C to boot from CD-ROM' option).(http://www.ontrack.com/) Works on PCs w/o BIOS support for ELTORITO ATAPI CDROM BOOT.

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This CD supports the following boot media emulation types:
1) FDD 2.88 Emulation (2.88 Mb FDD Image).
2) HDD Emulation (40-60 Mb HDD Image).
3) No Emulation MEMDISK (4 Mb MEMDISK Compressed Image).

  1. Here is loader menu BCDW 1.50z
    You can select entry by pressing [Up], [Down] keys and then - [Enter].

  2. Menu sample:
  3. Menu commands.
    • [PageUP]/[PageDOWN] change pages.
    • [TAB]/[Shift]+[TAB] walks through fields.
    • [Space] set marks '[v] Use FLOPPY'.
    • [UP]/[DOWN] change fields 'Video: [GENGRADD]*'.
    • [1]/[2] - fast switching modes VIO/PM.
    • [3]/[4] - fast switching modes 'net'/'nonet'.
    • [ESC] [ALT]+[F1] skips menu (???).
    • [F10] continues to boot.

  4. OS2CSM Loader options:
    • Country: English US (+ISO) (437,850) or Russian/english (+ISO) (866,850).
    • Boot type:
    • (E)IDE/PATA/SATA Support: OS2AHCI/DaniS506/IBM1S506/IBMINT13 (note that DaniS506 works only with DaniAtapi and it does NOT support AHCI or RAID modes!),
    • ATAPI Support: DaniAtapi/IbmAtapi,
    • DASD Support: DASD32+LVM/DASD16/DANIDASD+FAT32.
    • Optical drives: JJSCDROM/OS2CDROM/OLDCDROM,
    • Video: IBMVGA32/VGAGRADD/GENGRADD/IBMEGA/IBMCGA/SNAP(SDD)/MONO or no video.
    • LPT+COM / without ports.
    • Mouse COM/PS2 / without mice.
    • Drive selection for swapfile.
    • RAMFS selection & RAM-drive size (RAMFS needed for Workplace Shell!).
    • Pauseonerrors=YES / NO
    • Autofail=YES / NO
    • Suppress popups on drive:[A-Z]
    • DOS support / without it.
    • Win/OS2 support / without it.
    • OPEN32/ODIN support / without it.
    • IBM USB (u|o|ehci) support / CW USB (u|ohci) support / w/o USB.
    • UNICODE.SYS / without it.
    • UDF, JFS, HPFS, Fat32, NTFS, Up2Tb.flt / without it.
    • FLOPPY / without it (in some cases it must be disabled!).
    • APM / without it.
    • APIC on Chip / without it.
    • ACPI / without it.
    • TCP/IP 16/32 bit with autodetection of 2 netcards simultaneously + DHCP (setupd.cmd) or manual setup (setup.cmd) of net params / without it.

  5. To start FC/2 from command line enter:
  6. To change default graphics mode resolution from command line (before starting pmshell) enter:
  7. To start DHCP discovery from command line enter:
  8. To manually set static IP from command line edit and enter: and edit nameserver address:
  9. To start graphics shell from command line enter:

Screenshot.

Plans.

  1. Install MMPM/MMOS2 (now only libraries are set), SNAP/SDD (installed, now in testing).
  2. Install browsers: Opera, etc.
  3. Install Warpoverlay.
  4. ODIN for win32 implementation (installed, now in testing).
  5. WIN/OS2 for win16 implementation (installed, now in testing).
  6. Make kernel selection (W4/UNI/SMP).

Special notes.

  1. EGA/CGA video modes work ONLY via HDD emulation. (???)
  2. Netscape works ONLY via MEMDISK option. (???)
  3. DOS subsystem works ONLY via HDD emulation.
  4. WiN/OS2, ODIN/OPEN32 subsystems may not work correctly.
  5. The CD may not be loaded with '[v] Use FLOPPY' option - I recommend to disable it.
  6. In HDD Emulation mode IBMINT13.I13 halts booting process when hdd with more then 8 Gb is detected.
  7. In FDD emulation mode IDE CD-ROM doesn't work (IBMATAPI/OS2CDROM not needed) by design.
  8. The system is in testing regime now & has some traps :)

Startup sample.

To boot from CD select:
For GUI-mode set marks - 'RAMFS' & 'Enable mouse'
Then - [F10].
If you have some problems booting this CD after you see 'OS/2 WARP x.x CONFIG.SYS BOOT OPTIONS' you may change boot parameters.

Manual CD creation.

To create such a CD by yourself use the following directory tree:
  • [DIR] APPS - Miscellaneous programs.
  • [DIR] BOOTIMGS - boot catalog for MemDisk.
  • [DIR] BCDW - Bootable cD Wizard 1.50z
  • [DIR] CID - OS/2 CID.
  • [DIR] FC2 - subj. & others (lxlite + archivers).
  • [DIR] IBMCOM - OS/2 Network components.
  • [DIR] IBMI18N - OS/2 Network components.
  • [DIR] LANGUAGE - UNICODE language components OS/2 (for all).
  • [DIR] MMOS2 - OS/2 Multimedia.
  • [DIR] MPTN - OS/2 Network components.
  • [DIR] NETSCAPE - subj.
  • [DIR] ODIN - subj.
  • [DIR] OS1 - root dir OS/2 v 3.0
  • [DIR] OS2 - root dir OS/2 v 4.5
  • [DIR] PSFONTS - subj.
  • [DIR] USR - some useful progz.
FDD/HDD images are made using Winimage.
It is possible to make image from 'real' HDD drive - Primary Master (C:) (better not greater then 100 Mb).
To be continued.. ..

Customized version of CONFIG.SYS

Download ISO image OS/2 Bootable Recovery Live CD.

You MUST own a OS/2 Warp or eComStation license, to legal use this disk!

Current version dated: September 28th, 2015.
HTTP Link here (full-version without TOOLS):
DOWNLOAD OS2BOOT.ISO 7Z 2015.28.09

Team BOOT/2 OS/2 recovery boot CD, using a new technology.

if you need this disk but newer go to irc-channel #os2russian.

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How to boot from USB: copy contents to usbflash/hdd, and then modify bootsector and MBR using toolsfreeinst. To restore the image to Flash, you can use DFSee disk, partition and filesystem tool.

Please do not ask me about these images. I will not provide any support for them. Support for these boot images available on #os2russian irc channel, f.e. irc://irc.inet.tele.dk/os2russian - or http://chat.efnet.org:9090/?nick=bootuser&channels=%23os2russian&Login=Login. You may ask in english or if your write in russian, make sure that in your irc chat program encoding set to koi8-r.

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