Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/11/21:31:56
[Posted and mailed]
I'm an idiot. XEmacs zoned out on my while putting together my
followup and I didn't catch it. I apologize for that last,
meaningless post. Let's try again, with feeling this time:
In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980311113028 DOT 7344V-100000 AT is>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
>
> On 11 Mar 1998, Sean Levy wrote:
>
>> I find myself in possession of an HP OmniBook 530, a 486SX/33-derived
>> box with 12MB of memory and, effectively, about 200MB of disk.
>
> Not enough information. Please describe the OS (DOS, Windows, what
> version) that you are using. Also, please run go32-v2 with no arguments
> and tell what does it print.
>
First off, note that I'm a Unix hacker for some 15+ years, but haven't
done anything with PCs since using Wizard C on an XT ca 1985, so I'm
not exactly (re)hip to all the PCisms just yet.
When the thing boots, you first get a screen that says:
Chips 65536 VGA 32KB BIOS
<< some dates >>
Version 501
<< some copyright stuff >>
The the screen clears, and you get another screen that says
<< some copyright and date crud again >>
OmniBook BIOS Version 3.01
486/SX 33Mhz
Then the screen clears yet again (apparently, they don't want you to
be able to write this down... is there a PC/DOS equiv to dmesg?).
This time, we get a screen that says
DOS 6.2
And gives you four options:
1. Windows + LapLink
2. Windows only
3. MS-DOS only
4. MS-DOS + Flash File System
I usually pick either 1 or, more often since I've gotten PC kermit
working, 4, since I now no longer need the stupid Windows terminal
emulator (Dynacomm).
go32-v2 prints:
Version 2.0 Built Aug 12 1996 22:27:23
<< some copyright stuff >>
<< some stuff about keeping the old go32 in your path >>
<< which I don't have, so it doesn't matter, i guess >>
DPMI memory available: 9443 KB
DPMI swap space available: 92173 KB
>> I downloaded the latest DJGPP development tools from Delorie.COM, and
>> except for a couple warnings from PKUNZIP (presumably due to long
>> filenames?)
>
> What warnings? AFAIK, you should have no warnings at all. There are no
> known file name conflicts in DJGPP archives. Please tell exactly which
> archives caused the warnings, and what exactly did the warnings say. It
> might be that those ignored warnings hold a key to unlock your problems.
It's been a while, and I blew the .ZIP files away to save space, so I
can't remember exactly. I think the gist was "there were errors in
this zip file" but I saw no error messages go by as it unzip'ed. I
was using "pkunzip -d" to unzip the things.
> One thing you should probably try right away is to set 387=n in the
> environment (since 486SX lacks FP hardware).
I've tried this. No joy. cc1.exe still locks up.
I'm re-downloading right stuff now, since www.delorie.com came back up
this evening, and am going to try re-installing from scratch and see
what happens.
Sorry for the vagueness of my original post and the stupidity of my
second. Three's a charm.
Pax,
:: Sean
--
Sean Levy, SysAdmin/Hacker, CS Facilities, Carnegie Mellon University
Work: snl+@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~snl
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