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Good Direct wrote: thanks L18L
I started with petget, but there are only playonlinux and winetricks packages in the package manager...

Good Direct wrote: thanks L18L
I started with petget, but there are only playonlinux and winetricks packages in the package manager. Of course, I updated the database in the first round. Only then did I use the old files.
In the meantime, I went through what mikeslr wrote and couldn't find a 32/64 bit compatible file.
If I understand correctly, is it possible to install wine in the built-in container (racy, buster, xenial) in easyOS?
Thanks for the comments

OscarTalks wrote:

doggone wrote:I tried Peasydisk Version 5.1 and received same results as above.
Added genisoimage with petget and peasydisk works fine.
Please examine this further.

I was wondering about suggesting a symlink but then I took a glance in my DpupStretch and I see that it has this little script as /usr/bin/genisoimage

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#!/bin/sh
# Authors: Brandon Snider.
# This script redirects genisoimage commands to mkisofs. In case of --version being passed, the script returns a specific string to
# satisfy Brasero. In case of the old options -L, -H, and -P, the script adds -legacy to the args to properly instruct mkisofs.

legacy="no" # Create variable with default status of "no"

for i in "$@" # Iterate over all of the command line options looking for the old ones.
do
    if [ "$i" = "-L" -o "$i" = "-H" -o "$i" = "-P" ] ; then
       legacy="yes" # Set the legacy variable to "yes" if one of the variables is found.
    elif [ "$i" = "--version" ] ; then
       legacy="version" # Set the variable to "legacy" to return the string expected by Brasero
    fi
done

if [ $legacy = "yes" ] ; then
    /usr/bin/mkisofs -legacy "$@"  # Pass -legacy option. 
elif [ $legacy = "no" ] ; then
    /usr/bin/mkisofs "$@" # In all other situations, pass all options to mkisofs.
elif  [ $legacy = "version" ] ; then
    echo "genisoimage 1.1.11" # Pass the version info expected by any app querying Genisoimage.
fi

This might be better than installing cdrkit in addition to the already included cdrtools or even Debian's genisoimage Buster package (Debian have split up cdrkit into separate packages as they often do).

L18L wrote:Some changes in /usr/share/doc/easy/welcome.sh enable some translations in TEXTDOMAIN easyhelp ...

hcarrega wrote:I’m new to easyOS but I like the concept. My question is whether there will be an easy way to compile a newer kernel for example 5.7.4
Thanks

Terry H wrote:Running EasyOS 2.3 Didn't update to 2.3.1), I downloaded and manually updated the 3 entries( easy.sfs, initrd, vmlinuz) in the boot partition sdb1. I then clicked the initrd and updated successfully. On reboot it failed.

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Working drive speed test (lower the better): 92
mount: mounting /dev/sdb2 on mount /mnt/sdb2 failed invalid argument
ERROR: Unable to mount working partition sdb2...

On the first attempt typed "exit", which then continued to then say could not unmount sdb2, then kernel panic.

I then used easypup to run a fsck against the easyOS working partition, which corrected errors. rebooted and attempted to boot easyOS, but failed again as above.

Back in EasyPup I re-did the upgrade of the easyOS boot partition and clicked the initrd to update the boot specs.

Reboot to easyOS, still get same error. I have done this upgrade many times previously, without issue. No idea why this upgrade failed. I am able to access the partition from other installs.

How can I upgrade my USB install, preferably without loosing the earlier installs of easyOS?

Thanks in advance.

Terry

 if [ "${WKG_FS}" == "ext4" ];then #200621 change journal commit interval from 5 to 30...
  #rw,relatime,data=ordered are the defaults anyway...
  mount -t ${WKG_FS} -o commit=30,rw,relatime,data=ordered /dev/$WKG_DEV /mnt/$WKG_DEV
 else
  mount -t ${WKG_FS} /dev/${WKG_DEV} /mnt/${WKG_DEV}
 fi
 [ $? -ne 0 ] && err_exit "Unable to mount working-partition ${WKG_DEV}"

scsijon wrote:I'm not sure how it's happened, but with 2.3.2 I can no longer:>

1- install by dd to a clean memory stick;
2- reboot and allow sdb2 to grow to competely fill the drive;
3- reboot on another easy, then plug in the 2.3.2 memory stick as (so it's not mounted) sdb and using gparted, shrink sdb2 to allow the addition of a third partition on sdb.

I can however add the extra partition before allowing sdb2 to grow (2 above) and it all works correctly.

As I use the extra partition for development work and backups depending on what it's being used for, it is a serious setback from my point of view.

It would also be nice to be able to limit the size of sdb2's initial growth, especially with TB portable ssd's, micro SD and USB memory sticks already out there at up to 2TB and larger ones promised by the end of this year.

alfons wrote:BCRYPT
The program bcrypt (Menu -> Personal -> "Bcrypt file encryption") has not been working for a long time. I don't know if this is still useful in EasyOS