Scalos - General

[magorium]

For any other questions regarding off-topic discussions: open up another thread. Please stay on topic in this thread.

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yes I open a thread because I want to understand Mountilist well, in my opinion I was not OT because to me mountlist was for "Scalos Hostes" direct boot without Wanderer !

Thank you for opening the separate thread.

It is off-topic because if you look closely to where this thread is located: it has nothing to do with the development of scalos.

Mountlists are something that AROS system does, not the WB (replacement). And although I can understand that you don't know the specifics with regards to the latter, it still has nothing to do with scalos development/bug reporting.

Who in his/her right mind is going to start searching on how to mount a device in AROS/AmigaOS in a thread named "scalos-general" in the subforum "development" ? Really, give that question a thought if even for a few seconds.

Because there is also a language barrier you/we/me tend to let such 'side-topics' to get out of hand pretty quick, and such side-topic becomes a whole discussion on its own and that does not belong here in this specific thread.

I'll refrain from commenting on such topics because out of respect for the developer (yet here I am posting something unrelated to the topic again  ).

Please note that a developer (usually) gets notified each and every time we post something in a thread like this. In case we are too much off-topic a developer will becomes bored/annoyed about it and remove notifications and choose his/her own specific times to check the thread or even let such thread bleed out (=die) because of lost interest. At least that is how such things works on (other) development forums where there are literally 10000's of different topics and where posting unrelated remarks is frowned upon: it even gets you banned if you are doing such things too many times in a row).

More than happy to discuss this topic even further, but /not/ here in this thread (forum feedback comes to mind).

[magorium]

Nice to see that Scalos makes a comeback. I had it ported to i386 many years ago but an attempt to port it to x86-64 broke both i386 and x86-64. I haven't read all messages in this thread. The sort menu plugin needs to be ported from ASM to C.

Thank you for all the work you (and fella devs) did on porting scalos. Without it we wouldn't be in writing things in this thread ... uhm... make use scalos in AROS 

[AMIGASYSTEM]

magorium I made a small video showing AROS One x86 booting directly from Scalos (only disabled Wanderer from Startup-sequence).

As you will be able to see from the video (watch the whole thing), with Scalos now almost everything works fine, except windows with icons, sure Wanderer is much faster, however I must say that Scalos has improved npoteably

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gGcQnQ9qrLwc4zE-1kWJtul2Bje0umJK/view?usp=sharing

[OlafS3]

perhaps someone can help me

I want f.e. define a context menu for adf file to mount it

on magellan this is easy: "mountdiskimage drive idf0: {f}"

{f} is a variable defined by magellan giving you the path to the selected file

how can I do the same in Scalos? Unfortunately there is no documentation, at least none I found

[AMIGASYSTEM]

You can do the same command with Dops4, forward always from Dopus4 with the "xadUnFile" Command you can also "unpack" the ADF file to a folder in RAM (see screenshot), and all the files will be available in a folder with the same name as the ADF file.

Also from the Workbench there is also DiskImageGUI.

[OlafS3]

that is DOpus

but how can I do that just using Scalos? Any clue?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

From Dopus4 it is convenient, but you can do Floppy ADF mounting also from Workbench "double click icon", to do this in Def_ADF.info you have to set either your "mountdiskimage" or "xadUnFile" Commands.

This is only possible if you use the "wbXcli" command of the bravo magorium

[AMIGASYSTEM]

You can do the same things with DMS files as well.

If you want you can also create icons for the "Eject" DF0, DF1 etc.. either for Dopus4 or directly from the Workbench, I think you can also do it for CD/DVD and USB (not tested).

Of course you can do the same thing with DiskImageGUI.

[OlafS3]

it is working... you can add popupmenu on action that use cli commands with path to file or directory using constant %p

screenshot attached (now you can mount adf by rightclick)

Stack is always needed otherwise it not works

[OlafS3]

Scalos with mounted adf file using popup menu 

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Much better Def_Icons, faster mounting/unmounting no popups, and most importantly works with both Scalos and Wanderer !

[deadwood]

Scalos with mounted adf file using popup menu 

Nice

[AMIGASYSTEM]

On Scalos you can also add an item in the "Popup" Menu (see screenshot), but it is an extra work, in my opinion just and simple double click on Icon is enough, practically nothing changes, the command for Mount ADF is always the same.

Then important thing that Def icon method works "also" from Wanderer while Scalos Menu will stop working on Wanderer.

[OlafS3]

@Amigasystem

That might be but I use context menues in my magellan distribution very extensively with many options and filetypes. I want to implement that also on Scalos. And flexibility also is important for future Linux distributions.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Yes of course, the menu can be useful in certain circumstances, for example to disassemble floppies, in this case you simplify the steps, and you can eliminate the second icon, see screnshot.

Of course, it also works with DMS floppy image files.