John: it is my understanding that you aren't supposed to use the whole partition in your hdimage, although that should work. You are supposed to make a link in dosemu, at the same level as freedos, or convert freedos, one of the two. You also don't want to run dosemu from a bunch of different directories; it you don't have a /etc/dosemu.conf if sounds like you don't have a true system-wide installation, though I could be wrong about this. If you had a truly system-wide installation, you should be able to start dosemu from anywhere and the dosemu.conf should remain the one in /etc. There is an xms file in freedos also, so your statement that it is trying to load /dev/hda1 may or may not be correct; iif it is loading freedos and can't find that xms it will complain too. If you don't have a dosemu.conf in /etc, you should settle on one directory, like your home directory, and stay with it. If you use the link method rather than trying to use the raw partition as your hdimage, you _do_ want it mounted before you run dosemu; it is that mount point from which you link to a symlink within dosemu. It is the name of that symlink (not a path just a name) that you put as your hdimage. It is my understanding that this may be safer, that using your raw partition as the hdimage could result in more or all data loss in event of a crash; I don't know for sure that this is true, but it is what i was told. My /home/chomiak/mydos/dosemu directory contains: FDCHAGE.LOG Xfonts boot.log dosemu msdos README.BINDIST bin conf freedos xdosemu but msdos is actually a symlink to /dos, which is the mount point for my dos partition. Also if you rename your config.sys and autoexec.bat, it is the autoexec.bat and config.sys that should not be found, but be sure that you have specified the new extensions in your dosemu.conf. Also remember the difference between ./dosemu (what I type in my home directory under mydos/dosemu to bring up dosemu, and typing just dosemu. If you have a truly system-wide dosemu, it seems to me that just typing dosemu shouldn't be creating a new dosemu.conf in your directory. In debian i had a system-wide installation, but I reallly don't see the advantage to that if you are the only user using it.
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