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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DPMI not found?!!?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:29:42 -0700
Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To: Diing-Seng Toh <diing AT cs DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
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Diing-Seng Toh wrote:
> 
> I just installed the new version of DJGPP v2.  But I can not get it run.
> 
> I have read the FAQ, and intalled the program as show in the FAQ.  But
> when I run the go32-  it give me an error message: "No DPMI found!"
> 
> I have a 486-dx50 with 8 meg ram. 100 megs of free disk space!
> and I am running emm386.exe with the setting as in the FAQ.

There is a file in the djgpp distribution called 'readme.1st'.  If you
read it it specifically tells you that you need a DPMI host to run djgpp.
This means running under Windows 3.1/95 DOS box, QDPMI, 386max, Linux
dosemu, etc.  To run under vanilla DOS, you can download this free DPMI
host provided for DJGPP:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/csdpmi3b.zip

BTW, the FAQ _does_ tell you about DPMI - just look up the error message!
But be sure to get the exact text right.

> Does anyone has the same problem when installing djgpp the first time?

Only those users who don't read the documentation.  Don't get mad - I was
one of them.  :)

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