On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Reinhard Karcher wrote:
> At Fry, 19 Nov 1999 Jyan-Min Fang wrote:
> >
> > I have linux and window95 installed on my computer. recently, my group
> > purchased a dos program for our research project. I can run it by directly
> > booting into msdos mode (command prompt within window95 won't run). I am
> > thinking if I can run this program using dosemu, so that I don't have to
> > reboot everyday just to run this program. My concern is I've already
> > converted my window partition into fat32 format. Can I still run dosemu
> > with a fat32 partition? btw, I use redhat 5.2 and dosemu 0.98.
> >
> Hi,
> I don't know the kernelversion of redhat 5.2, but newer kernels
> read and write FAT32 Partitions. You mount your partition in linux
> and in dosemu use lredir to access the partition.
>
> Reinhard
Hi,
I guess I didn't make my question clearly. what I like to know is can I
use a fat32 partition to start dosemu? or does it have to be a dos fat
partition? here is part of the /etc/dosemu.conf that allows one to choose
how to start dosemu. right now, it is hdimage.first, a bootable freedos
hdimage that comes with redhat 5.2. can I just change hdimage.first to the
fat32 partition /dev/hda1? Thanks
$_hdimage = "hdimage.first" # list of hdimages under /var/lib/dosemu
# assigned in this order such as
# "hdimage_c hdimage_d hdimage_e"
# If the name begins with '/dev/', then partion
# access is done instead of virtual hdimage such
# as "/dev/hda1" or "/dev/hda1:ro" for readonly
# Currently mounted devices and swap are refused.
# Hdimages and devices may be mixed such as
# "hdimage_c /dev/hda1 /dev/hda3:ro"
# Note: 'wholedisk' is _not_ supported.
Jyan-Min Fang
