[Discussion] Create an image of an existing OS/2 installation

[Niels Jensen]

Thanks to Ed, Massimo, Gene and Doug for giving me some directions in this
project. I will discuss the suggestions with my friends tomorrow. Most
likely nothing will happen until after Easter.

With best greetings from Niels

On 21 March 2010 19:39, Niels Jensen <slangerup at gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all appollogies for posting to both ecomstation at yahoogroups and
> Discussion at lists.possi.org. At my former place of employment they have a
> heat integrated distillation pilot plant, which is controlled by an old
> computer which runs OS/2 Warp. A couple of days ago I read an article about
> a another OS/2 computer used for process control, and the efforts to create
> an image of that system in order to run the OS/2 control software in a
> virtual machine on Linux. The article can be found here
> http://blog.eracc.com/2010/03/19/virtual-control-linux-virtualbox-and-os2-or-ecomstation/#comment-6778
>
> Unfortunately the system I know about have no USB ports. My first idea
> would be to run DFSee from a minidisk and create an image of the installed
> system on an ethernet connected system. Is that possible? I know the system
> has an ethernet connection, but I don't know how to get a connection from
> DFSee started from a disk to a remote drive? Any suggestions?
> --
> With best regards from Niels Jensen
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