On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > Try installing the xcompat package. It probably has the a.out library > > dosemu is looking for. > > > > Luck, > > > > Dwarf > > > > ------------ -------------- > > > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 > > Flexible Software Fax: NONE > > Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------ If you don't see what you want, just ask -------------- > > Thanx for the info, I should have thought of it myself. > However, I can't get dosemu to boot with the -A switch, and > can't therefore install it. It always crashes giving me: > ERROR: can't get floppy parameter in /dev/fd0. > > My floppy drive usually works, and the boot disk is fine. > Whats up?? > > Thanks for your time... This seems to be a bug in the version of DOSEMU that has been packaged for debian. The way to get around this is to edit the dosemu.conf file in /etc and replace floppy { device /dev/fd0 } with floppy { file /var/lib/dosemu/diskimage } you will then take the floppy that has all the files you were supposed to put on it and run dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/var/lib/dosemu/diskimage } you will then be able to boot off the image of drive A: and when ever you access drive A:, it will be the image file. This is a workaround, not a fix. However, this bug does seem to be fixed (at least on my system) in the development releases, which I am using on my system. Hope this helps Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]