Hello Dosemu friends, the 80s have just returned to me somehow - my BBS is back!!!!!
I have been using Dosemu from 0.66 to 0.97 and have NOW FINALLY recovered my BBS from a HD crash (successfully, as you see...) Now having this done, I want to set my BBS back up and need your advice on how to do that Dosemu-wise. Way back, I have had some friend student at our university here who installed that all - and second, there are different ways to boot that dos. Read on! Let me introduce you to the general scenario. I have been running PC BOARD 15.22 under Dosemu 0.67 - where lredir yet worked as it should, nowadays, as I can hurtingly see from my first test, you are no longer allowed to boot from a physical dos partition, which is mounted into Linux tree AND redirect it back to DOS access - Bart, is that really a feature? I know that this SHOULD have something to do with the problem like concurrent access from Linux and dosemu BIOS Calls to the same partition without data corruption. But I do NOT access from both at the same time. So how do I reenable that? I have NEVER had any problems with that GOOD option. Read below... I have had Dosemu set to enable direct partition access to /dev/hda1 and a second dir for the up/downloads. Running Dosemu, I used to boot from an hdimage, which I built using the script included in the package. The hdimage consisted ONLY of the necessary Dos 6.22 files to boot, meaning the config.sys, command.com, io.sys and autoexec.bat. The next step has been the very first command in the autoexec.bat, I had my physical DOS Partition mounted to /mnt/c already and now redirected it to Dosemu - which apparently does no longer work. Bart, is that correct or have I missed something over the years!?!? THIS redirection VIRTUALLY overwrote the autoexec.bat which Dosemu was referring to, so the actual DOS-BOOT was ONLY AT FIRST using the autoexec.bat inside the hdimage, THEN after redirection ALL of the C: was visible to Dosemu and the rest of the ACTUAL autoexec.bat on C: was executed. Another issue is the conventional memory which I have been able to assign to Dosemu to almost 900k (need that for ISDN drivers!), but as I see now, not more than 640k are possible?!? Has Dosemu limits on this by now??? Bart and St. and all others: Am I wrong or has Dosemu taken some steps back? Precisely THESE options were the reasons for me to run Dosemu and no longer Desqview+Qemm under Dos!!!! So for now, how should I do all this _nowadays_? In short: Dosemu+PCBoard Multinode+I need loadsa RAM I would LOVE to put all the Dosemu stuff (which means 5 tasks for 5 nodes) into RAM Disk (calculating 1.2 MB for each node this does 5 times 1.2=6MB RAM + extra data needed by Dosemu so maybe 8 MB of RAM for that RAMDISK) to have it run faster - how to do that at best? Also the booting should (we live in 21st century....) now rather be done from a virtual image NO longer redirecting EVERYTHING from physical drives - but there is another problem which arises here: The BBS writes a lot of data, if it stores this data to virtual image only, it's lost, sure. So how can I for example store the logs and the new uploads on a type 83 directory on the Linux tree - is that at all possible? Can Dosemu write to NON-FAT partitions? Geeeez. I hope this was not too much for the first time that I am back. But I also hope that I have given you enough details so that you now at least have a most complete picture of what I might go through. ANY * REPEAT * ANY friendly idea, pointer or alike appreciated. Also, excuse my English. I am strongly working on it. But I am only German, and you know, we lost the war.... :-) Best regards from North Germoney :-) -- *��., ��,.��*���*� =Oliver@home= *��., ��,.��*��*� I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - now back online +49.4504.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<< - 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
