John J. Boyer wrote: > Christof, > Thanks for all the information. It will be very useful.
Given that I have exactly the same problem but, regrettably, am much less competent, I would welcome additional guidance. If it has already been spelled out somewhere, then a URL will suffice. > > In order to get DOS 7.10 (from Windows98) running instead of freedos > > it possibly do to copy only the root directory of hda1 to a > > subdirectory of dosemu and include a PATH statement into the > > autoexec.bat that finds all necessary DOS files on your DOS > > partition. > > This bit is crucially important for me - and I have understood virtually none of it. So, perhaps a description of my setup will help. I have currently a DOS/Windows 98 as a dual-boot setup on drive hda. Windows 98 has ceased to be of interest, but I have a superb DOS program (it uses dBase 3, a script and relational database files) that I use routinely to keeps track of my home finances My Linux drive - which is loaded most of the time - is hdb. I have no problem in mounting my hda drive and reading the files on it while running Linux. But running the dBase program is another story. I thought that dosemu might come to the rescue. And I am certain that it will -once I have discovered how to use it. So - to get back to the above quote from the comprehensive - but ununderstood - advice. What root directory of my hda drive needs to be copied. And where is it supposed to be copied to? The dosemu drive C:\ or dosemu drive D:\ (reached via "dosemu -home")? > > > > The dosemu directory contains: > > > > dosemu xdosemu > > > > bin bin/dosemu.bin bin/dosdebug > > > > conf conf/global.conf conf/dosemurc conf/dosemu.conf > > > > dos710 dos710/command.com dos710/io.sys dos710/msdos.sys > > dos710/autoexec.bat dos710/config.sys dos710/display.sys > > dos710/setver.exe > > > > dos710/dosemu dos710/dosemu/ems.sys dos710/dosemu/emufs.sys > > dos710/dosemu/exitemu.com dos710/dosemu/generic.com > > dos710/dosemu/cdrom.sys dos710/dosemu/lredir.com > > dos710/dosemu/unix.com > > My current dosemu directory contains: bin boot.log conf dosemu FDchange.log freedos README.bindist xdosemu Xfonts ./bin: dosdebug dosemu.bin ./conf: dosemu.conf dosemurc global.conf ./Xfonts: fonts.dir vga.pcf > > freedos (not needed) I have omitted my /freedos files from my submitted list. Since I do not have a separate dos710 directory on my DOS/Windows drive, I am somewhat confused (I do, of course, have the individual files command.com, io.sys etc). And the next step is? > > > > ----------------- dos710/autoexec.bat ----------------- > > SNIP > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > --------------------- dos710/config.sys ----------------- SNIP > > ------------------------------------------------------------ The details in the above files will be of great help, once I know where to put it. All help will be gratefully received. Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA) - 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
