1. Forum
  2. Fidonet
  3. OS2

  • Finally got ArcaOS 5.0.4

    From Kevin Nunn@1:19/50.1 to Don Lowery on Wed Mar 4 13:49:10 2020
    DON LOWERY wrote to ALL <=-

    I am stoked right now. In the past hour I got the OS installed on my
    new system. Runs like a dream!

    Welcome back to the OS/2 World :)

    installation to continue. On final reboot...pull out the USB drive and
    let it go straight to the desktop.

    Good to know! I haven't tried a USB install yet, so I'll make note of
    that.

    the material I read...make kick the memory up to 16 GB & put on a 1 TB laptop drive I have sitting around. That's something coming down the
    road.

    I forget what my main system has, but it's way more than enough for
    OS/2 needs. I think it might be 16gb and I have 8gb ramdrive or maybe
    it's 8gb with a 4gb ramdrive. Eitherway, the machine is hardly ever
    sluggish. Except when I open up Firefox, that can take a few more
    seconds than usual.

    ArcaOS works on this Lenovo ThinkCentre...so now to look at upgrading
    it one piece at a time. With the updates coming down the pike...looks

    I have 2 old IBM Thinkpads that I have Arca installed on as backups
    for my BBS machine. And it runs great on them. They are just basic
    installs of 5.0.3 I think, and if the BBS hardware ever fails, I can
    unzip the backup on one of the Thinkpads and be back running fairly
    quick.

    Kev


    --- Telegard/2/QWK v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Razor's Domain/2 BBS (1:19/50.1)
  • From Don Lowery@1:340/1000 to Kevin Nunn on Wed Mar 4 19:40:11 2020
    I am stoked right now. In the past hour I got the OS installed on my new system. Runs like a dream!
    Welcome back to the OS/2 World :)

    With the updates (USB & such) makes it so much better than dealing with floppies & such. The feeling of seeing it run is like wearing your favorite clothes. They fit great & make you feel great.

    installation to continue. On final reboot...pull out the USB drive an let it go straight to the desktop.
    Good to know! I haven't tried a USB install yet, so I'll make note of that.

    Had it hang several times. Unplugged the keyboard/mouse to make sure I wasn't doing something stupid. Wasn't. It just hangs up on USB...but not the DVD. Figured it out...so just need to remember to unplug the USB on the 2nd boot & throw it back in after it goes to loading drivers.

    I forget what my main system has, but it's way more than enough for
    OS/2 needs. I think it might be 16gb and I have 8gb ramdrive or maybe
    it's 8gb with a 4gb ramdrive. Eitherway, the machine is hardly ever sluggish. Except when I open up Firefox, that can take a few more
    seconds than usual.

    Even under the VM last week...Firefox was more responsive than on my 10 machine. With 1 GB...it was flying. Haven't tried it after I put in 16 GB
    from the original 8 GB I had in there. I was impressed...because I never remember Warp running like this back in the day.

    I have 2 old IBM Thinkpads that I have Arca installed on as backups
    for my BBS machine. And it runs great on them. They are just basic

    That's what I was looking for...but when I got this thin client for $50...couldn't afford to pass it up...especially since the seller was doing everything to get rid of them.

    ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/AmigaNet/VKRadio/FidoNet/MicroNet.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: ACME BBS-W.Coyote & D.Brown are our best users. (1:340/1000)