Phew, managed to get dosemu to go again! First a big thanks - it has saved me the effort of booting back into dos many times! The dosemus on red hat 5.2 and 6.0 are both useless. (developer versions?) Problems: boot hangs, floppy disk access hangs, the whole thing hangs (several times by simply pressing ":" on the keyboard (shift-; for me). Major hassle: configured logical disks (i.e. files containing disk images) were not accessible (illegal drive letter). I gave up. Finally I got your rpm: Name : dosemu Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.98.7 Vendor: DOSEMU-Development-Team Release : 1 Build Date: Sun Jun 6 06:09:51 1999 Install date: Thu Jul 8 00:50:24 1999 Build Host: hlermen2.lermen.priv Group : Applications/Emulators Source RPM: dosemu-0.98.7-1.src.rpm Size : 3463540 License: GPL version 2, (C) 1994-1999 The DOSEMU-Development-Team Packager : Hans Lermen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.dosemu.org Summary : The Linux DOS emulator Running on red hat 6.0. one minor problem I can't remember, but works. Even the vbootfloppy works again. Great! I installed MS-DOS 6.2 and 6.22 from the original install floppies, ok. (Copying the files from those floppies onto a disk accessible by dosemu doesn't work, msdos 6.2 insists on installation from A:\, and 6.22 always(!!) crapped out during install with I/O error). Therefore floppy jockeying once more - hadn't done that for years. But it works now. Things I had to change: charset to ibm, or those IBM window making characters ain't there (neither console nor X). rawkeyboard = on, absolutely necesssary or shift-anything or ctrl-anything (e.g. cursor) doesn't work, making the whole thing useless for cut/copy/paste operations under dos. I can't really see how dosemu could be usefully used without this? vbootfloppy and dos partition access via linux and lredir work fine. Then I carted the whole thing to a laptop (Compaq Armada 7800, pentium processor), off-the-CD Red Hat 6.0 installation, and the whole thing fails. It simply hangs after reading from the msdos install floppy for about 3 seconds or so. Nothing I could do to get it to do something. It hangs stone-dead after displaying "Loading MS-DOS..." Only freedos booted... but that's not so useful. If I may say this about freedos: as far as I am concerned, it's rather a waste of time. The development time would be better spent on dosemu. It seems to read neither config.sys nor autoexec.bat? I am interested in compatibility (to save having to boot into dos), not free (license) software in this case. msdos is extremely free (cost) these days - plenty of unused licences lying around everywhere... Has dosemu more problems on laptops? Is there something I can do to get it going? The only difference I can see between the machines is that the PC it works on has the Red Hat kernel 2.2.5-15, recompiled by me, whereas the laptop has the red hat kernel 2.2.5-22 as compiled by red hat. Can that really make a difference? Btw your rpm has the submit-bug-report or some such program missing. One more bug (has been in since 0.6xx days): in the xdos window as well as the console, text scrolling doesn't work properly: the last character on an overfull and therefore wrapped line is repeated in the first column (a little annoying, but it works anyway). Overall: thanks for dosemu!!! Volker
