I have tried running from a vfat partition, at least -- a windows 98
partition, on which the program runs natively without difficulty. I
started xdosemu with the switch -home; I have a symlink to the windows
partition there, so cd'ed to d:\windows\dance and ran dance.exe, with the
same result. I could try putting in a small dos partition (would it be
possible to run it off a fat16-formatted floppy? Or can a fat16 image be
installed without repartitioning -- sorry if my ignorance of DOS is
showing), but would also like to find a Linux-only solution, as I use a
Linux-only box at work and cannot mess with the partitioning.
Thanks, Robert.
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 07:19 p.m. 19/08/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >I've just installed DOSEMU and am trying to get a program to run (Dance of
> >the Planets, an excellent astronomical package). I have installed the
> >latest stable precompiled binaries (with builtin Freedos) exactly as the
> >instructions specified, in a subdirectory of my home directory, and I'm
> >running xdosemu as an ordinary user (and have run several programs
> >succesfully). When I try to run dance.exe, however, it comes right back
> >at me with the message "Run from local drive or purchase a network
> >license". I looked through the documentation and the archive for this
> >list, and saw that this could be a problem with lredir'ed drives -- but
> >the proposed solution (if it is even applicable to this situation and the
> >latest release of dosemu/freedos) contained the phrase "hence destroying
> >the partition" (!) so, since I didn't entirely understand the solution, I
> >thought better of trying it. Any tips or guidance?
> >
> >Cheers, Robert.
> >
> Did you try to run the program from a fat16 image or partition?
>
>
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