are you actually using it for dialup? If you get he chance i'd be curious to know what you think of this one: telnet://solarflow.dyndns.org
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Oliver Ob wrote: > 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 > - 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
