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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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RobertM

Quote from: ckblackm on 2010.08.20, 18:27:59
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.


Probably your best bet still sadly. :(



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RobertM

Quote from: ckblackm on 2010.08.20, 20:18:06
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.

Possibly, something in APM is turning off the NIC? If so, disable all such in the BIOS. As for the other machine, sounds like what you may have needed is to change SCSI settings in the BIOS to support the 8GB drive for booting (sizes are either 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB on various BIOS).


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ckblackm

Any idea why the ess 1887 audio would cause a trap d?  It didn't do this before the fp15 install.

The Blue Warper

Sorry, I hadn't time to post this earlier.
If you're trying to install Warp 4 from the original installation disks, the installation is probably hanging due to your HD being too large for the original IBM drivers.  The original IBMS506.ADD supported hard disk drives up to 4.3 GB.  Support for up to 8.4 GB was introduced with FP6.
Now, you write you did upgrade the original IBMS506.ADD and even tried DANIS506.ADD driver.  So I wonder whether you did put the SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 line in your config.sys.  Moreover, you might want to try upgrading IBMIDECD.FLT/IBMATAPI.FLT too (though I don't think it's related to your specific issue).

From the readme.txt file found in the IDEDASD package (the one to be found in http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/ide/idedasd.exe for example, which seems to be the latest free one):

[...]
If you are attempting to install Warp 3 or Warp 4 for the first time on a
  fixed hard drive greater than 4.3GB, then:

  1.  Follow the instruction on "Updating the Installation Diskettes" in this
      README and use the new diskettes to install Warp.

  2.  Install FP35 for Warp 3 or FP6 for Warp 4.

  3.  Follow the instructions in this README to install this package.



  2.0  INSTALLATION
  _________________

  2.1  UPDATING THE INSTALLATION DISKETTES
  ________________________________________

  If you are attempting to install Warp on a hard drive greater than
  4.3GB, or your are attempting to install Warp Server for e-business on
  a hard drive greater than 30GB, then the Installation diskettes must
  be updated.

  1.  Make a backup copy of your Diskette 1 (D1).

  2.  Copy the new versions of IBM1S506.ADD, and IBMIDECD.FLT
      device driver files onto your D1 diskette.

  3.  If the installation diskettes are for Warp Server for e-business,
      Warp Server for e-business Convenience Pak, or Warp 4 Convenience Pak,
      copy the DASD32.DMD file to your D1 diskette and rename it to
      OS2DASD.DMD.  Otherwise copy the DASD16.DMD file to your D1
      diskette and rename it to OS2DASD.DMD.

  4.  Add the statement SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 to the CONFIG.SYS on D1.

  5.  Save the changes.

  6.  Start the installation with the Installation Diskette.

  7.  When you are prompted for Diskette 1, use the diskette you modified.

  8.  Proceed with the installation.

  9.  If during the installation process or when restarting your system, you
      lose connection to your hard disk or CDROM, make sure that the device
      driver statements are in the CONFIG.SYS file and the new versions of the
      IBM1S506.ADD, IBMIDECD.FLT and OS2DASD.DMD device drivers have been
      copied to the \OS2\BOOT directory.  Use the date of the files to distin-
      guish the newer versions.
[...]


Hope this can contribute to shed a little more light to your problem.
Regards

rudi

Quote from: ckblackm on 2010.08.23, 03:51:23
Any idea why the ess 1887 audio would cause a trap d?  It didn't do this before the fp15 install.


Because it has a bug the manifests itself only on kernels distributed with FP13 and later.


RobertM

Quote from: The Blue Warper on 2010.08.23, 14:44:13
Sorry, I hadn't time to post this earlier.
If you're trying to install Warp 4 from the original installation disks, the installation is probably hanging due to your HD being too large for the original IBM drivers.  The original IBMS506.ADD supported hard disk drives up to 4.3 GB.  Support for up to 8.4 GB was introduced with FP6.

As a related note that someone else here mentioned a while back, using the DANI driver in place of the IBM one can be accomplished by renaming the DANI driver to the same name as the IBM one and replacing the IBM one. The SetCopyFromFloppy line is still required, as TBW indicated.


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ckblackm

I had the setcopyfromfloppy flag set already as the instructions had me do that for the scsi cdrom driver.... so
that wasn't the problem.

I'm not worried about that now... I just decided to do the install on the 2gb machine instead. 

Things that need fixing now: (so far)

1) Is there a fix for the ess 1887 driver so it doesn't trap D (besides backing out to before fp13?)

2) Is there a way to make os/2 warp actually shut off the machine when I shut down?

3) What level of java can I install on here?  I tried the innotek 1.42 from os2site.com, but it complains about not having an innotek driver installed.

4) when connected via pcmcia lan card to the internet... web explorer works, but firefox doesn't actually seem to attempt to go to url's I type in.

thanks,
Christopher.

RobertM

Quote from: ckblackm on 2010.08.23, 19:28:10
I had the setcopyfromfloppy flag set already as the instructions had me do that for the scsi cdrom driver.... so
that wasn't the problem.

I'm not worried about that now... I just decided to do the install on the 2gb machine instead.  

Things that need fixing now: (so far)

1) Is there a fix for the ess 1887 driver so it doesn't trap D (besides backing out to before fp13?)

Try UniAudio - I'm using an older version on one of my machines that has a similar chipset without issue (machine is running WSeB CP2).


Quote from: ckblackm on 2010.08.23, 19:28:10
2) Is there a way to make os/2 warp actually shut off the machine when I shut down?

xWorkPlace and it's extended shutdown routines (once you install xWP, you need to enable the extended shutdown features). There's also an extended shutdown utility on Hobbes someplace (sorry I dont recall it's name). Let me know if you dont get either to work or cant find them. They work on some/most of the systems I have.


Quote from: ckblackm on 2010.08.23, 19:28:10
3) What level of java can I install on here?  I tried the innotek 1.42 from os2site.com, but it complains about not having an innotek driver installed.

IBM Java (v1.31), or install the Innotek Runtime.

More information on Java stuff (some outdated), can be found here:
-> http://www.os2world.com/java/

More information/downloads for the Innotek Runtime can be found here (use most recent):
-> http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/InnoTek/index.html


Quote from: ckblackm on 2010.08.23, 19:28:10
4) when connected via pcmcia lan card to the internet... web explorer works, but firefox doesn't actually seem to attempt to go to url's I type in.


That's baffling. Have you checked the network settings in Firefox to ensure they are not set to some proxy configuration? Also, try accessing a website via it's IP address. A safe one would be Google. From a command prompt, do "host www.google.com" and then try that IP address in Firefox.

If none of that work, then please go into more detail about what Firefox is (or is not) doing. Is it failing on the "resolving host" portion? On the "connecting..."? Sitting on "waiting for..."? or where/how?



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