Hi!
Can someone help me how to set up properly dosemu on a machine
that has NT 4.0SP3+MSDOS? Now we installed Linux on it and we
would like to run some DOS based programs. It has a DOS partition
of course, and it has io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com.
But setup-hdimage complains about that it cannot determine the type
of DOS and asks for the equivalences of io.sys and msdos.sys.
I gave io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com to setup-hdimage but
on dosemu boot io.sys or msdos.sys gave a "Missing NTLDR" message.
I copied everything into /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first using mtools
that seemed relevant: ntldr, boot.ini, bootsect.dos and customized
config.emu and autoexec.emu.
But dosemu quits so quickly on boot that I can't see any messages.
I tried to install MSDOS 6.2 into hdimage.first and copied the
C:\DOS tree from a DOS machine into the C:\DOS62 directory on the
NT machine and I set comspec=c:\dos62\command.com in my autoexec.emu.
I have the DOS and NT partitions mounted under /mnt/dos and /mnt/nt
and I lredir these directories under dosemu to c: and d:.
I experience that despite the comspec setting DOS tries to
load c:\command.com after some programs' exit and I get
"Cannot load COMMAND.COM, system halted."
I do not get it if I run some "correctly behaving" programs, like
Dos Navigator (an ukrainian Norton Commander clone), MSD, etc.
But I get this if I run a program from the Well Data System.
This is an old oil industry DOS based data processing software
which we still use and would like to use in the future as well.
And I have another question: when will I able to use 16 color modes in
dosemu under X? Some 16 color programs does not display correctly.
Regards,
Zoltan
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