Thanks to Peter and Edward, I've printed your directions off and will try to get it up and running.
Later, John On Sunday 13 January 2002 03:44 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin John Goley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi Edward Mendelson, > > > > I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu 1.0.2.1 running > > with MSDOS 6.22. > > windows' dos isn't the best one to use. you also want to stay away from > dos 4.x. > > > How did you do it? I am very new to Linux and Dosemu and need all the > > help I can get. <BG> > > > > Trying version 1.0.2 with freedos on my new P4 1.7 ghz machine wouldn't > > work at all. xdosemu said it was starting but would never give me a DOS > > box. Never had this problem when I was using a AMD Athalon 1.2 ghz > > machine. > > > > Anyway my main question is how to get MSDOS to work rather than use the > > provided freedos. > > > > Thanks for any help you could give me. > > well, i'm not edward and i don't know if this is the right way, but > here's what i did. > > freedos was installed in /var/lib/dosemu/freedos, so i did: > > mv /var/lib/dosemu/freedos /root/oldfreedos # keep a copy somewhere > mkdir /var/lib/dosemu/freedos > > and put command.com, io.sys, msdos.sys, autoexec.bat, config.sys and all > the other DOS programs in /var/lib/dosemu/freedos. you can take them > all from windows if you want dos 6, or you can take them from a dos 5 > floppy. your choice. > > after awhile, i thought it was kind of goofy to have dos 5.0 in a > directory named "freedos". so in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf, i changed: > > $_hdimage = "freedos dosgames cdrom" > > to > > $_hdimage = "dos dosgames cdrom" > > and renamed /var/lib/dosemu/freedos to /var/lib/dosemu/dos. note that > the first directory in $_hdimage becomes your C: drive, and that's where > DOS should go. > > so the short answer is: put whatever DOS you want to use in that > directory. MAKE SURE to not mix up files from different dos's. also, > the directories in $_hdimage are relative to $DOSEMU_LIB_DIR, defined in > /var/lib/dosemu/global.conf. > > > this may all sound complicated, but i assure you, i'm making it more > complicated than it should be. > > pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
