This happened to me too and I had to read deeper in the manuals to figure it
out. The problem is not dosemu but Freedos. Freedos does not support
redirection which is what's used in order to access either a dos partition
or a linux directory under dosemu. Freedos will only work with another
image.
You can still have both drives accessable from the same dos session, but you
must use something other than Freedos on your boot drive. Reversing your
drive letters will do this, but just make sure you don't boot into win95.
The way I did it was actually the way suggested in the manual. Create a
directory in /var/lib/dosemu and set it as your boot drive (say
/var/lib/dosemu/root.dos/). Create your own config.sys, autoexec.bat, and
msdos.sys files in there, then link io.sys, command.com, and whatever
directories you need from anywhere in your filesystem, allowing you to keep
your dos partition mounted.
= Michael C. Maggio
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mundy matthew
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 11:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Disk Partitions under dosemu 0.99.10 (fwd)
>
>
> I sent this earlier but I never read a response. I figure either :
> 1) the SMTP server lost it(we have an infamously slow SMTP server)
> 2) No one knows the answer, which is OK too
> 3) I expunged it accidently. There is no getting it back
> after 'd' 'x'
> 4) It was sent but never received
>
> Anyways, does anyone know how to fix this?
> ---Matt
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
> From: mundy matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Disk Partitions under dosemu 0.99.10
>
> I am trying to get a fat16 hd partition running on my second
> disk under
> the dosemu 0.99.10.0(What came with RH 6.0). I am having
> trouble getting
> it working. The Output is :
>
>
> Linux DOS emulator 0.99.10.0 $Date: 99/02/26 $
> Last configured at Wed Mar 31 15:05:43 EST 1999 on linux
> This is work in progress.
> Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs
> and problems.
> Bugs, Patches & New Code to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed
>
>
> F1 DOS
>
> Default: F1
>
> Here is an fdisk /dev/hdb table
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2341 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 129 2341 17775922+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 65 128 514080 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb3 1 64 514048+ 6 FAT16
> I am trying to put it on hdb3(of course). I have formatted
> it with the
> mtools mformat and have successfully mcopy'd a boot disk to
> it. I can do
> an mdir h:(what I have in the mtools.conf as /dev/hdb3) and
> get the proper
> listing
>
>
> and here is the pertinent lines from my /etc/dosemu.conf
>
> $_floppy_a ="atapi:/dev/hdd"
> # or "fiveinch" or "atapi" or empty, if not
> existing
> # optionally the device may be
> appended such as
> # "threeinch:/dev/fd0"
> $_floppy_b = "" # dito for B:
> $_hdimage = "/dev/hdb3 hdimage.first"
> (though there should be 2 t's in ditto)
> It runs with the $_hdimage as $_hdimage = "hdimage.first
> /dev/hdb3" but d:
> is not available. I dunno, maybe I missed something in the docs.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your help. I've been doing the Linux
> thig for about a year, but I still have much to learn(And
> I'll enjoy doing
> it)
> ---Matt
>
