Nicola Girardi wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 11:46:54AM +0530, Prem Setu wrote:
> | dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast.
> | If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs....
>
> Is there anywhere a howto/guide to set up dosemu to boot elks?

Ah!.... I was almost writing my self..... I will try my self soon. but if
someone has information how to install / boot Elks in DosEmu, I am happy to
hear....

This is only info I have....

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> From: Mario Frasca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Kalogirou Harilaos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date:   Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:28:08 +0100
> Subject: Re: VMware
>
>
> Hi Kalagirou,
>
> > I tried DOSEMU(ver 0.99.10)
> > but nothing, it stops while reading the boot disk with message
>
> You're running Redhat, too, aren't you?  I've had this same problem with
> the dosemu 0.99.<something> coming with RH6.0.  that is a development
> version, not necessarily a stable one.  what I did was uninstalling it
> and downloading 0.98.8.0.  now I start my dosmachine in a xterm like
> this:
> xtermdos [-A]
> (the -A is to boot it from a boot disk.)
>
> > I use ELKS kernel version 0.0.81
> > and Dev86 version 0.14.9
>
> this is exactly what I'm using, and it works as described above.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> Mario.
>

Thank you Mario,
 meanwhile I found "bochs" an i386 emulator which runs fine.
I'll use that for the moment it seems to work ok if I exclude
some "@" appearing randomly at the bottom of the screen!
If more problems evolve I will switch to DOSEMU.

Harry


"Alegria Loinaz. Inaki" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a new participant in the list and after reading FAQs I have a couple
> of questions:
> - Is ELKS able to run executable programs from standard Linux?
> - Is possible with ELKS to read the File System in the hard disk (I
> suposse no, but I donエt know sure)
>
> I am looking for a simple OS to use teaching (modifying the kernel) and
> despite simplicity is very important, I'd like to be possible to load
> pre-compiled programs and to have a file system in hard disk.
>
> Is ELKS a good choice for this or it is better an old version of the Linux
> kernel?
>
> Thanks in advance
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> University of the Basque Country
> 649 Postakutxa, 20080 Donostia
> Basque Country
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love
setu


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