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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:52:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: UNIXMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Smilay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: trying to boot to WIN95 boot floppy
as for the screen sizes listed below (ie. VGA, 9x15) I was tring to find
out about this too, I posted a message to the list and received no reply.
I tried to make a new hdimage with setup-hdimage but it would not work
with RH 6.0 and i've never used mtools before to know how to do it manually.
Probably the easiest way is to: create a directory like
/var/lib/dosemu/msdos and copy your boot files including autoexec.bat and
config.sys in there, make a symbolic link in the /var/lib/dosemu
dorectory called dos and have it point to the msdos directory, then
change the line in your /etc/dosemu.conf where you see something
like $HDIMAGE =xxxx and change the xxxx to dos. that should do it.
If you are only using dosemu for 1 thing then you can just set all that
in the autoexec, including the lredir stuff. Win95,98 dos works fine,
just make sure you have the BOOTGUI=0 in the msdos.sys.
hope this helps...
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, David Smilay wrote:
> I have not been able to boot successfully to a WIN95 boot floppy using
> dosemu as follows:
> xdos -A
>
> The dosemu window pops up but it is blank and never displays anything.
>
> My terminal window displays:
> kernel CPU speed is 463917406 Hz
> Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
> ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: ,trying "vga"...
> ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: ,trying "9x15"...
>
> The above display on the terminal window is identical to the display when I
> run "xdos" successfully using the hdimage created when dosemu was installed
> (when I installed RedHat 6.0 which installs dosemu 0.99).
>
> I am doing this as a step to try to access a msdos partition on my scsi hard
> disk since lredir is not available using freedos.
>
> If I can boot to the floppy can I then make the hdimage bootable using
> WIN95 dos? Or how can I make the msdos partition on the hard drive the boot
> drive (it already has the system files installed) ?
>
> I plan on running one dos application only in the partition, but it is a
> disk intensive program with about 1.1 GB database consisting of about 35,000
> files and it will receive a steady stream of data via the serial port. I
> would appreciate advice on the best way to set this up.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
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