Dear sir
I thank to all those who have developed wonderful dosemulator
for Linux. I really love it. I have installed it (dosemu-0.98.6) on
red.hat 5.3. It works fine both in xwindow and otherwise except I can
not access my floppy drives ( I have two floppies: 1.2 mb (drive a:) and
1.4mb (drive B:) on 400Mz Pantium II.
In linux I can access these drive by using "mdir a:"
commands and it works fine but if I try in xdos "dir a:" it hangs. In dos
after "dir a:" it shows files on A: drive and then hangs. While I can
access all harddisk drives in dos as well as in xdos. My /etc/fstab is:
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/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat umask=000,defaults 0
0
/dev/hda5 /dosd vfat umask=000,defaults 0
0
/dev/hda6 /dose vfat umask=000,defaults 0
0
/dev/hda7 /dosf vfat umask=000,defaults 0
0
/dev/hda8 /dosg vfat umask=000,defaults 0
0
/dev/hda9 /dosh vfat umask=000,defaults 0
0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
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and in my /etc/dosemu.conf, I have following lines
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$_vbootfloppy = "" # if you want to boot from a virtual floppy:
# file name of the floppy image under
/var/lib/dosemu
# e.g. "floppyimage" disables $_hdimage
# "floppyimage +hd" does _not_ disable
$_hdimage
$_floppy_a = "fiveinch" # or "fiveinch" or "atapi" or empty, if not
existing
# optionally the device may be appended such as
# "threeinch:/dev/fd0"
$_floppy_b = "threeinch" # dito for B:
$_hdimage = "hdimage.first" # list of hdimages under /var/lib/dosemu
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I would be thankful I any body tells me what I need to do which
will allow me to access in dosemu. With regards
J. S. Yadav
