At 11:38 AM 04/06/2000 PDT, Richard Davis wrote:
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to use the Dos emulator,
>version .98 included with Red Hat 6.1.
Is it really .98? Though I haven't used Red Hat for quite some time,
I checked the rpms on my 6.1 cd and got the ff:
dosemu-freedos-0.99.13-1.i386.rpm
dosemu-0.99.13-1.i386.rpm
and
mtools-3.9.1-5.i386.rpm
>I thought it might have been set to
>a default value that would work for Windows '98, so I tried running it and
>got a "no hdimage.first" error.
You could have tried to insert a windows'98 bootable floppy in A: or B:
and then typed `dos -A` or `dos -B` as the case may be.
At least, your next boot would have been a pleasant surprise.
> So I decided to create my own hdimage.
If your plan was to make dosemu run with Win98, you follow a different track.
1. First make sure your dos partition is visible. Probably mounting it under
/mnt/dos_hda1 if RH6.1 didn't do so already.
2. Create a directory such as "bootdir" under /var/lib/dosemu/
3. Copy msdos.sys, config.sys and autoexec.bat from your dos parttion's
rootdir
to /var/lib/dosemu/bootdir
3.a. Edit config.sys and place a semicolon (;) before any occurrences of
himem.sys, emm386.exe (linux will provide XMS & EMS) and any scsi or ide
device drivers.
3.b Edit autoexec.bat and place a double colon (::) before any occurrences
of mscdex.exe, and any other device drivers and tsr's.
4. Create softlinks in /var/lib/dosemu/bootdir to io.sys, command.com and
any
other directories you want to access from your dos partition.
x. Add bootdir to the following /etc/dosemu.conf line:
$_hdimage = "bootdir hdimage.first" # list of hdimages under /var/lib/dosemu
5. Finally, type `dos`, (I prefer 'dos -cVk').
6. If it works, start to add your specific tsr's one by one.
>Problem is, the mkdexe program doesn't work when I type "mkdexe
>/var/lib/dosemu/myhdimage -o noapp" or when I try to add extra options. It
>says that no such command is found and later says that the m_tools directory
>is not found. Is the mkdexe command on Red Hat Linux incomplete?
Red Hat 6.1, like Mandrake has everything except the proverbial kitchen sink.
You probably didn't choose to install it.
>Also, when I type dos, I get a general protection error @ 0x19df7: 66. I
>also get an error: SIGESV, protected insn...exiting. I was wondering if you
>had any idea what was going wrong.
Hmmm, to the list! To the list my comrades! There we shall meet our destiny!
:)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Richard Davis(newbie in need)
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