On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Hans Lermen wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Hugh Lawson wrote:
> > More importantly, the resulting setup recognizes as the C:\ drive whatever
> > is defined by dosemu.conf as "$_hdimage". FreeDos isn't supposed to be
> > able to do this, afaik, with dosemu.
>
> Why not? If $_hdimage points to a valid hdimage or partition, DOSEMU fakes
> him a physical disk drive.
Hello Hans,
Thanks for the reply. I was going by these lines from the document
QuickStart:
[begin quote]
The bootdir method, however, doesn't work if you use the DosC (FreeDos)
kernel, for this you have to use 'hdimages' and ./setup-hdimage. Have a
look
at ./doc/README.txt, chapter 2 and ./doc/README-tech.txt, chapter 7.)
[end of quote]
Maybe I was wrong to think this means that FreeDOS cannot access the
C:\ drive defined by $_hdimage.
Moreover, I have actually attempted this:
dos -A # with FreeDOS Beta3 in A: drive
#result: dosemu runs and the directory defined as $_hdimage
#appears as the C:\ drove. The directory can be listed and
#its programs will run.
dos -A #with FreeDOS Beta4 in the A: drive
#result: dosemu runs, but the directory defined as $_hdimage
#cannot be accessed as the C:\drive. Below I list what happens.
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label
File not found.
Have you attempted this with FreeDOS Beta3 and Beta4?
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
