Re: Got it working, kind of. was Re: Adding network and internet to Warp 4

Hi Alex,

On Jun 25, 9:45 am, "Alex Taylor" <mail...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:56:41 UTC, Snydley <snydl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My main computer has Win XP on it. I've downloaded Firefox and
Seamonkey from Warpzilla on it and burned them to CD using Nero 6
Ultra Edition. When it's done burning, and I "look" at the CD with
Windows Explorer and I see long filenames. Then I carry the disk
across the room and put it in the CD burner in my OS/2 computer, a
233MMX Pentium, 128M Ram, NEC 3550A DVD-RW burner. When I look at it
from an OS/2 window, I see no long filenames. The file
firefox-2.0.0.14.en-US.os2.zip shows up as firefox_.zip. To make sure
it wasn't Nero, I just erased the CD, and copied the files to the disk
using Windows explorer. One thing here though, I got a warning from
Windows saying "The file "seamonkey-1.1.9.en-US.os2.installer.exe" has
extra information attached to it that might be lost if you continue
copying.The contents of the file will not be affected. Do you want to
copy the file anyway? Y/S/C" I select Yes but as before, when I look
at my CD in Windows explorer I have long filenames, when I put it in
the OS/2 machine I don't. Firefox ver. 2 shows up as Firefox~1.zip,
Firefox ver 3 shows up as Firefox_.zip. I don't think I have long
filenames enabled in the OS/2 machine for some reason. I did the
Advanced install when I installed it, and I don't remember there being
a choice whether or not I wanted long filenames. One thing though,
even though I formatted it in HPFS when asked, DOS and Win3.11 were on
the hard drive on the C: partition when I installed Warp. Could Warp
"see" that Dos was on there already and automagically turn off long
filenames because of it? I'm confused. I think I'll repartition again
with just OS/2 on the disk and see what happens.

No, no.  Stop.

You're confusing too many different issues here.

First.  You can't run Firefox on your system if you haven't installed the
latest Warp 4 FixPak yet.  Did you do that?  Did you see my reply to you
a couple of days ago on that subject?  (Given your questions about
unzipping, I assume you didn't.)

If it's disappeared from your newsreader, here it is from Google:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.os2.misc/msg/eb041e273a50f545

Second.  Download UNZIP from Hobbes.  I included instructions in the
aforementioned message.  That will let you unzip Firefox.

Third.  You are using HPFS, therefore you have long filename support.  No
worries there.  The reason you can't see long filenames on the CD has
nothing to do with that.  Rather, it's because Warp 4, as installed out of
the box, doesn't support the latest CD-ROM filesystem extensions (Joliet-3)
that Windows uses to create long filenames on CD.  You won't see the long
filenames until you install the latest FixPak -and- the latest device
drivers.  However, since Firefox is zipped up, you don't need to.  
Everything should be just fine inside the zipfile (and it doesn't matter at
all what the zipfile itself is called.)  Just unzip it to your hard disk
and you should be set... PROVIDED you've done all the above.

To summarize:
 1. Install UNZIP.  (Depending on the version, this may also require you to
    install the EMX runtime as well, also described in my earlier post.)
 2. Install FixPak 15 (and Device Driver Fixpak 2).
 3. Install the latest LIBC 5 runtime required by Firefox.
 4. Unzip Firefox to the hard disk and try running it.

--
Alex Taylor
Fukushima, Japanhttp://www.socis.ca/~ataylo00

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First off, THANKS SO MUCH for all the help you've given me, the system
is getting there, one step at a time it seems.
I unstalled Info-Zip's unzip and zip into a directory I created called
ZIP and added C:\ZIP to the PATH and LIBPATH line in config.sys using
"e" from an OS/2 prompt, then rebooted.
I've already installed fixpack 15, I didn't know about device driver
fixpack 2.
I downloaded device driver fixpack 2, burned it to CD and ran it from
the CD drive on my OS/2 machine. The Corrective Service Facility said
"There are no products on the target system to fix". So I xcopied
everything to C:\FIX and ran install.cmd again from the hard drive.
Same results. I previously ran the fixpack 15 is it included with that
maybe?
I installed the per the instructions on the Warpzilla site, "This
release requires the C runtime DLLs (libc-0.6.3) from
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip";
I unzipped them to C:\Firefox,(I got rid of DOS, and put OS/2 on this
HDD by itself).
I'm going to re-install Firefox and the DLLs and then I'll let you
know how it goes.
Again thanks for all the help.
Oh, you were saying, "I'm confusing too many things". You are SO
right. This is my first time with OS/2 and I started my computer life
on DOS 3 and later Windows 3.1 so I'm not computer illiterate, but OS/
2 is making me feel like I am. :-)
Take care,
Snyde
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