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- >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Sinnott <rrs0030@ibm.net> writes:
-
- Steve> Well, as far as I can tell, something in the new release is
- Steve> incompatible with OS/2. Just tried it on Machine #3, a
- Steve> 486DX/4-100, 12 megs ram, 850 meg HD (both HPFS and Fat
- Steve> partitions), Diamond Stealth 2-Meg VRAM VLB, which has
- Steve> recently had Warp installed. No network or other
- Steve> modifications. Running Executor gives:
-
- I've actually been at work since about 7am. I read about the OS/2
- problems and began rearranging my office so I
- can try to install OS/2 Warp on our laptop -- a TI TravelMate 4000M --
- while I look into other 1.99n bugs. Unfortunately, just like when we
- tried to install it on our Dell OmniPlex 590, the OS/2 installation
- disks claimed that they had no drivers for our CD-ROM. So for now
- we'll have to look at your traceback.
-
- Steve> eax=00000ff ebx=001100e2 ecx=00000000 edx=001c12c4
- Steve> esi=001736d8 edi=00000000 ebp=001c1464 esp=001c1074
- Steve> Call Frame Traceback EIP
- Steve> 0x0014c019
- Steve> 0x0020342
- Steve> 0x0009f863
- Steve> 0x00149eec
-
- Ouch. It's dying in the library routine "getmntent", which is a
- relatively recent addition to the DJGPP library that we use to build
- Executor. My guess is that any program using getmntent and the DJGPP
- V2 beta that we used to build 1.99n will die under Warp, but without
- Warp installed it may be hard for anyone at ARDI to do more than this.
-
- I'm bcc'ing this letter to DJ Delorie to see if he knows of any
- problems with getmntent and Warp. If we can't get a workaround soon,
- I can add a command line switch that bypasses our use of getmntent (we
- never used this routine in previous releases of Executor -- it's this
- routine that allows us to figure out what DOS hard drives there are,
- which is a feature new to 1.99n).
-
- Steve> It fails at the same point as the other two, right after
- Steve> checking the floppy. Again, I've tried the various switches
- Steve> available with Exec, and tried different OS/2 Dos-settings
- Steve> all without success.
-
- Right, and for DJ's benefit, I'll mention that you appear to know OS/2
- fairly well from my perspective.
-
- Steve> So I think it's not compatible, judging from the
- Steve> differences in the machines I've tried. Any ideas? Anyone
- Steve> having any luck? Anything you want me to try?
-
- Steve> - Steve Sinnott, Networking and Advanced Operating Systems
- Steve> Specialist SCS Consulting, Inc. - rrs0030@ibm.net -
- Steve> yyym44a@prodigy.com Nuclear Device? What Nuclear Device
- Steve> would that be, Officer?
-
- Steve, let me know if you might want to help us figure out how to
- install Warp on our laptop. We really want to have Windows 3.x, Warp
- and Caldera's Linux installed on that puppy so we can show Executor
- off to people with stacks of hundred dollar bills.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-