Jeff,
I had a similar problem in that I could not boot that 0.99 version of dosemu
to a: drive.
I understand that your machine is not yet web ready. The following will
help you after you have the 0.98-7 rpm of dosemu.
Once you get the rpm for the .98-7 version it is easy to install with RH 6.0
and it should work! I did the following on my machine with RH6.0.
Assuming you have X-window working, you can use gnorpm to uninstall the
existing 0.99 version. Type gnorpm in a terminal window and the gnorpm
application will run. Then in the gnorpm window find the
Applications-emulators folder and highlight the 0.99 version of dosemu and
click the Uninstall button, but only uninstall the dosemu, not the xdos or
the freedos. (The versions of freedos and xdos installed with RH6.0 will
work with ver. 0.98-7 of dosemu.) When that is done, then click on the
install button and in the install window click on add. Then point to the
directory where you have the 0.98-7 rpm stored and add it. Then click
install.
Then it should install and you can test it by running xdos.
This is the procedure that I used successfully. If anyone else has any
suggestions for improvement, I am all ears.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 7:22 AM
Subject: Can't get floppy to work under DOSEMU
>I've installed dosemu-0.99.10-4 on my Red Hat 6.0 system. I'm running
>with the stock DOSEMU configuration: i.e., no changes to either
>dosemu.conf or dosemu.users. I've tried the hdimage file that came with
>DOSEMU (wouldn't even boot), the current hdimage on Caldera's web site,
>and the hdimage from FreeDos-0.99.10-4.
>
>The Caldera and FreeDos images boot up just fine, and the simple tests
>I've tried work OK (e.g., dir, type, etc.).
>
>However, I can't get the floppy to work. Under both the Caldera and
>FreeDos images, a command such as "dir a:\" causes the activity light on
>the floppy drive to come on, I can hear the drive seek, and then ...
>nothing. DOSEMU hangs, there's no additional activity on the floppy
>drive, and the only way out is to kill the "xdos" or "xtermdos".
>
>I have grep'ed for "floppy" in every text file delivered with the DOSEMU
>rpm, and I didn't find anything that seemed to be relevant to this
>problem. A DOS system that won't read a floppy isn't too useful.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Jeff Clark
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
