X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: rugxulo AT gmail DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: FreeDOS and DJGPP Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:39:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <_fKdnW85IY8ZwF_anZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d AT comcast DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1203986383 11760 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2008 00:39:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: d62g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hey, On Feb 25, 12:17 am, Jim Michaels wrote: > I noticed FreeDOS's EMM386 and DJGPP don't get along together. > Don't use the old, old 2.26 (from 2006). Use Japheth's new JEMMEX (5.71, just updated today even). http://www.japheth.de/Jemm.html > I always get "Protected mode not available" when I try to run > DJGPP-compiled programs. > Sounds like VCPI isn't available. What does your CONFIG.SYS' EMM386 line say? Are you running any other shells or TSRs or drivers? > however, I was wondering why when I was trying to boot from a floppy it > said it could not create cwsdpmi.swp - is it a large file? I didn't > allocate any memory except an int and so a software interrupt with some > registers. You apparently don't have a FAT partition on your hard drive. Ignore the warning or turn off swapping: "cwsdpmi -s-" (or use CWSPARAM to turn if off entirely).