Marcel Landman wrote:
> > 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
>
> You can try, otherwise if that doesn't work you can make an image from a
> bootable dos 7 (win95) floppy and make a floppy image from that and boot from
> there. Freedos won't allow you to use lredir, but dos 7 will.
>
> -mln
The question ist : Are you able to read the fat32 partition under your RH 5.2 ?
If your Kernel is able to read the Partition dosemu is able to read it too.
(I don`t know how to start dosemu from a Win95 drive, but i know how to
use a Win95 drive as C: under dosemu.
It`s easy just start dosemu from its hdimage and then change C: to your
Win95-drive as described below.)
If it`s readable, just use the fat32 partition to create a hdimage ( use
setup-hdimage that comes with dosemu "/var/lib/dosemu/setup-hdimage" on my SuSE
6.2).
Once the image is created you should mount your fat32 partition under Linux
"mount /dev/hda1" or wherever your fat32 partition is. Configure it in your fstab
so that it is been mounted automatically on every boot.
Start your dosemu by typeing "dos" and "enter".
change to drive D: (d: is normaly Linuxfs:/).
change to D:\mnt\hda1 or wherever you`ve mounted you fat32 partition.
do a "dir" command and take a look. You should see all your folders and files
normaly under Win95 on C:\
if D: is an unknown drive enter "LREDIR D: LINUX\FS\".
copy lredir.exe and the other tools that comes with the hdimage to d:\mnt\hda1.
Then do a "LREDIR C: LINUX\FS\mnt\hda1"
check PATH statements and variables and add/change them as needed.
Start your DOS-Application.
greetings from germany
regards
H. Backhaus
this was written with codepage 850 I really don`t know wat it look like with
other codepages and i don`t like to find it out.
Let me know if this was usefull...
