Christof, I've been studying the below message that you sent on Monday. I think I may set up my dosemu in a similar fashion. What I'm wondering about now is how Cheryl can write to her dos partition. My Redhat 7.1 system seems determined not to let me do so. She has Debian. Could that be why? Thanks. John On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 1 Apr 02 at 8:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hello, > >After downloading several rpm's for gcc I have finally managed to compile > >dosemu-1.1.3. Now I would like to get it working with my Windows 98 SE > >partition. The "partition" is actually the whole of hda, that is, hda1. My > >machine is dual-boot and has two drives. Linux is on the second drive. My > >Windows 98 is set up to stop at dos, instead of loading Windows > >automatically. My main concern is the safety of the data on hda1. I don't > >want to do anything that might damage it. I do not plan to try to start > >Windows with dosemu. There is an important DOS application which I would > >like to run without leaving Linux. Thanks. John > > If you are concerned about safety, you may probably minimize the part > of your HD which is accessible for DOSemu. You need not boot from > hda1 for that. Just mount the hda1 to your Linux file system and > redirect the directories you want to use with 'lredir' to a new drive > letter. Then you might add some of those directories even to your > PATH. > > When you mount the DOS partition to Linux you already must decide, if > you want only to read, also write to the hard disk or even execute > programs from it. Choose the appropriate option with mount. In > terms of safety it might be more reasonable to copy some > applications to your dosemu home directory and to access the DOS > partition only for the data (rw,noexec). > > 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. I have duplicated only these files: msdos.sys, io.sys. > command.com, config.sys, autoexec.bat and those files that can be > called only from config.sys (display.sys, setver.exe etc.). In > config.sys you must use ems.sys from the freedos packet instead of > HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE coming with MS-Windows. > > 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 > > freedos (not needed) > > ----------------- dos710/autoexec.bat ----------------- > > @echo off > prompt $P$G > > c:\dosemu\lredir d: linux\fs\tmp\dostmp > c:\dosemu\lredir i: linux\fs\C\$DOS > > PATH=I:\BAT;I:\DOS;I:\BIN;I:\NC;C:\DOSEMU;I:\APPL\WORD > > set TEMP=d:\tmp > lh NLSFUNC.EXE C:\COUNTRY.CS > MODE CON CP PREP=((437,852,866,) I:\I18N\EGA3.CPI) > MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=850 > lh I:\I18N\KEYB330 CZ,852,I:\I18N\KEYBOARD.CS2 > echo. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------- dos710/config.sys ----------------- > > DOS=UMB,HIGH > lastdrive=Z > files=50 > buffers=15 > devicehigh=c:\dosemu\ems.sys > > DEVICEHIGH=DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,850,3) > DEVICEHIGH=setver.exe > > shell=c:\command.com /e:1024 /p > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Christof Lange > > > _______________________________________________ > > Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Prokopova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic > phone: (+420-2) 22 78 06 73 / 22 78 20 02 > http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov > > > - > 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 > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 - 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
