From:	snl+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Levy)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Q: OmniBook 530 anyone?
Date:	12 Mar 1998 02:16:39 GMT
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[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
-- 
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