On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 08:47:21PM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote: > > I would suggest modifying QuickStart, section 4, giving the above reason > for why the installer really should create a new hdimage. There is already a note about FreeDOS in README.Debian. > In fact, that it is not there may be the reason for the problem I > encountered while creating a new hdimage. Here is the output: > > > We now try to generate a bootable hdimage into /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first > and are calling ./dexe/mkdexe for this. > > You will be prompted to edit the configuration files > (config.sys, autoexec.bat e.t.c). > > Enter the name of your favorite editor, if you type just ENTER, the > editor given via the EDITOR enviroment variable will be used. > > edit.com > Sorry, but edit.com seems not to be accessable, using default > Starting ... > System type is MSDOS. sysfiles: io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > Cannot create entry named . or .. > Skipping "config.sys", is not a directory > Skipping "autoexec.bat", is not a directory > ... done > meganut:/usr/lib/dosemu# What's happening here is that mkdexe is trying to mcopy config.sys/autoexec.bat to the newly created image, but those two files (because they were in the commands directory) are already there so mcopy is giving up. So the question is whether mcopy (mtools 3.9.6) is supposed to give up or not. Can someone on linux-msdos clear this one up for us please? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
