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Messages - BigFig

#1
Applications / Re: IBMWorks DLL Missing
2008.12.11, 15:31:35
Thanks for the help Roland and Ivan.
#2
Applications / IBMWorks DLL Missing
2008.12.10, 17:58:50
Somehow, during the last 7 moves (in 8 years) that I've made I have lost my OS/2 Warp3 and 4 Installation  CD's.  Now after numerous crashes and reformats installing eCS  2.0 RC5 and 6, I've lost the fwprec.dll  for IBMWorks.  Can someone help me out with this file, please?  My other fwp*.dll's are dated 8/12/96.

Please send to gary@crossno.net.

Thanks.
#3
Thanks to both of you.  The first suggestion didn't work because dspinstl kept asking for a .dsp file location and I didn't have a clue.

The   setup.cmd required a parameter "snap" to work but work it did. 

Again, thanks a lot.

I have been running OS/2 since the 2.0 and eCS 1.2 since it came out.  The trouble is,  it just kept running and running and I just kept using it and using it and forgot how to do all those little things like this.
#4
I got a SDDHELPER$ corrupted msg and rebooted to vga mode.  Now, how do I reinstall snap? 
Thanks
#5
Thanks, the first set of instructions worked so I have the printerwithout going thru a windows computer.  Couldn't get opt 1 or 2 to work but I have the printer.  Thanks again.
#6
I cannot find a way to connect my network printer HP 2840, directly to my eCS 2.0 RC5 computer (or any other version for that matter).  Do you have to have a domain controller for this?   I do connect using  share from my WinXp computer.
#7
I recently tried to create a partition in the free space of my disk2, there was 100GB of free space but LVM would not accept a number larger than 50GB.
#8
Create an unformatted primary partition, perhaps 40GB using your vista OS.  Then create the volume that ECS wants as that partition.  You'll probably have to install the boot manager at the END of free space.
#9
That was my submitted bug and the answer (kinda) worked.  But not contented with using two different mouse(s) for my KVM (WinXP OS's  and OS2) I had to start playing around with other drivers.  The first TrapD was for USBKBD, after that NOTHING would would stop me from getting a TrapD, except now it was USBHID, eventually.  Maybe one switchover perhaps a dozen but it was going to happen.  I tried so many variations of keyboard and mouse drivers that  I thought for sure I was going to catch my tail.  The only thing that eventually got me to a stable setup (normal install with amouse drivers) was the MS keyboard had such short range (about 4 in) and the mouse was going thru so many batteries because it never went to sleep, that I changed them both out and all the traps went away both on the virgin (no driver changes) install and the one which only god might have know what combo I had<G>.  The only thing wrong now and this was was always a problem for me with 1.2, is that the keys will not repeat.
#10
Been moving USB devices (kb/mouse) around and changing mfr's . Once I got rid of the MS wireless kb(s) and MS wireless Mouse(s) the problem seems to  have resolved itself.  (I'm knocking on wood<G>) been working good thru dozens of KVM switch overs all day.
#11
Setup & Installation / Trap on USBHID
2008.11.21, 04:42:24
I have two RC5 installations C: and F:.  Both of these trap on USBHID when the computer is selected via the KVM. If I plug the mouse AND keyborad in directly the trap does not occur. I thought to try a differenct USBHID driver but the file is  not used in older versions of OS/2, 1.2, 4.0, etc.

Any suggestions, please?

Gary
#12
Not sure this is the correct forum but!!!!!!

How does one recover the directories that chkdsk "finds" and store in FOUND files?
#13
Problem solved and I feel like and absolute idiot.  I had left the floppy with the registration file in.  The floppy was set as the 3rd boot device, after CD and Hard Drive but for some reason the bios was looking at it. 

Thanks to all for the attention to my problem.

Gary
#14
All I can say David, is that it was working fine until I installed  RC5 on Drive C.  I  agree that is seems impossible for the boot mgr to work in zero space, but when I  press enter on the CD menu (boot to hard drive) it get a bootmgr of  two drives even tho lvm indicates zero bits used.
#15
"What drive was the bootmanager installed to and what is its location?  Is it installed at the beginning or end of the drive? If on the end, what is the size of the drive?"

I've installed it on  drive 1 and the strange thing is there was no free space on the drive, the size of BM is zero MB's, yet the BM would work (thru the CD) and I've installed it at the end of (middle actually, there is 100GB free at the end) drive 2 and it's size was 7MB's. 

I have been using these two drives for OS2 for about 7 or 8 years and they have seen warp 4 and all the flavors of eCS.  All was fine until I decided to put RC5 on the C drive (it was working with RC4 until this point).  I did format the drive but there was a hangup when it rebooted for phase 2 (or maybe 3) it hung during the playing of the start up wave file and required use of the reset button.  I have since reformatted twice more and gotten clean installs except nothing is bootable except thru the Install CD.   Both drives in the  BM are labeled "startable" and the BM is labeled 'bootable".