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Installing Warp 4 on old HP Omnibook 800ct

Started by ckblackm, 2010.08.17, 02:29:03

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ckblackm

I've just picked up an old HP Omnibook 800ct setup and would like to install Warp 4 on it.
It's a P166MMX w/ 80mb ram and a 6 gb HD in it.  It has an external floppy (bootable) and
an external cdrom drive (not bootable) that's scsi.

I've followed the instructions on setting up for install for this machine, but it hangs on disk 1.
The HP Omnibook came w/ the device drivers preloaded (they're also on the recovery cd... I just had to copy them to floppy)

Here's the instructions:
You must add the SCSI driver to the OS/2 Warp installation disk 1:
1. Delete the file AHA152X.ADD from OS/2 Warp installation disk 1.
2. Copy OS2CAM.ADD from \OMNIBOOK\DRIVERS\OS2\SCSI to disk 1.
3. Edit the CONFIG.SYS on the OS/2 Warp installation disk 1
4. Add the following lines:
     BASEDEV=OS2CAM.ADD
     SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1.
5. Change the following line:
     BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD
     to
     REM BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD
6. Save and close CONFIG.SYS.


I don't know why it's hanging, but I've got 2 identical setups (ie. 2 laptops w/ floppies/cdrom) and it does the same thing on both.
Any ideas?

thanks,
Christopher.

Fahrvenugen

Hi,

Are you running with updated IBM1s506.add or the DANIS506.ADD driver on your Disk 1?  It'll need that for the hard disk access.

If you're still on the original driver that may be the problem.  I know the original shipping driver was supposed to work with drives around 6 GB, that's something I'd look at.


Radek

The disk size does not seem to be the problem. The IBM driver was able to handle disks up to 8 GB (LBA mode). Daniela's drivers could help if the disk weren't "standard". But then - why was the comp shipped with OS/2 drivers? Or, does the OS2 directory contain also other drivers, for example, a HD driver?

The instructions posted by cblackm are pretty clear, they should be OK. What's wrong is a mystery, especially because the instructions came from the vendor. I suggest the following:

(1) Check the BIOS settings (if it is possible). The HD should be in LBA mode, the CHS data should correspond to the 6 GB size.
(2) Comment out the os2cam.add driver and try to install. You should get a message that your CD cannot be operated by the installer. If you do then the HD isn't guilty most possibly.

ModZilla

I've had some success experimentally speaking, with Linux installs as well as os/2 warp4
server on towers, rack servers and laps; I built a VMM virtual machine once that booted
to OS2 from Linux BSD after installing a live boot mgr. I learned the hard way and consequently
stay away from live BIOS and\or changing the BIOS on proprietary machines esp. if the
box/lap machine already had Twindoze installed previous to my somewhat languishing attempts;
[ie to restructure the factory default settings on HP or Compaq installs which they get in bulk
for nothin as ISO files and loaded on HDD by the thousands-not one at a time of course!] -as
MS seems to be cryptic in the take over of the BIOS almost exclusively unless you flash it
on the mobo and start over (clean install including a deep HDD format). Enough rambling here,
point being you may try the thing I found that works usually without a hitch: EasyBCD. I do not
have the link but I am sure you can lycos search it (do not use GOOGLE for this as the data stream
will be seeded and you will get all kinds of pop ups later for having searched this including spyware)
and download the latest version as I have not used this for some time. GOOD LUCK and GOD BLESS ALL!
someday os2 will be ruled by the young and famous-at least in the open-source world!

ckblackm

Ok... I had tried to do so much I had forgotten what exactly I had done.  So I started over w/ new disks.

Using original disks (not updated)... and following the omnibook instructions,
the install process went through, accesses the cd and got to the install part.
But, as expected, it isn't able to see all of the disk and fdisk won't let me partition it.

When I replace the ibm1s506.add with the newest from hobbes, it hangs like I described earlier.
If I replaced the ibm1s506.add with the latest dani, then it sorta flips out... it'll ask for disk 2, but the floppy
is still being accesses (on-off-on-off) in rapid succession.  If I put in disk 2, it gives an error about not being
able to handle the hard drive.

Are there some switches or whatnot that I need to use with either the dani driver or the 1s506 driver?  (I wasn't using any switches)

Are there any other files that need updating/changing on disk 1?

thanks,
Christopher.

Radek

The possible source of problems can be the version of Daniela's drivers. The latest versions are for eCS. Try some older versions: 1.6.x for example, you find them on Hobbes. These versions should work with W4. You will need to replace ibm1s506.sys and os2dasd.dmd with Daniela's drivers at least.

The Blue Warper

#6
Another suggestion (just in case): maybe either the floppy disk drive or the floppy disks themselves are faulty?

ckblackm

I only see the latest danis driver on hobbes.. .any idea where I could find an older one?

thanks,
Christopher.

ivan

You could try http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/ide/index.html  also have a good look on that site, there might be a modified disk 1 available.

ivan

ckblackm

Ok... I gave up on trying to install it on that machine... too much frustration.  So I took the other
Omnibook 800ct that I've got (exactly the same, but has a 2 gig hd as opposed to the 6g in the first one)
and everything installed.  Go fig.  Ah well... I guess I'll play around with this one.

One problem though. 

I'm trying to setup tcpip so I can d/l the fixpacks.  The adapter's working, and I get an ip address
from the router via dhcp, and from another machine on the network, I can ping the omnibook....
but the omnibook can't ping anything (including the router), but itself (it pings itself fine).  It also
can't resolve hostnames, but that might be because it can't ping anything.  I know I'm probably missing
something simple... any ideas?

thanks,
Christopher.

ckblackm

nvm... a reboot and it seems to be working.  Hopefully I can d/l the fixpack and the universe will be happy again.
:-)

thanks for everyone's help,
Christopher.

Radek

I have found version 1.7.0 of the driver in my archives. The driver should work with W4. I can email it to you if you post me a PM with your email address.

ckblackm

Updated to FP15, unfortunately the audio is no longer working.  It trap D's when it gets to the
audio driver (it's a ess 1887).   If I disable the audio in the bios, it boots and works normally (minus the audio, of course).

any ideas?   The dates on the ess 1887 driver that I have match the ones available on hobbes.

thanks,
Christopher.

ckblackm

Is there a relatively recent browser that I can use with this?  The latest firefox build has too high of min. system requirements  (this is only a p166mmx w/ 80mb ram).

thanks,
Christopher.

ckblackm

I've noticed that the above problem with the network seems to reoccur if I've been idle for any length of time... a reboot fixes the problem, but it just seems weird.