On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Graeme Evans wrote:
> 1. Does dosemu support the running of DOS programs in full screen mode?
Yes, but not from within X, you have to switch to a VC first if that's the
case (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1)
> 2. The system I would run dosemu on is Linux only (not dual boot DOS/Linux).
> I believe that dosemu requires DOS to be available on the system.
You need DOS startup files, but no dual boot system or FAT partition.
> Is it
> possible to supply the required DOS files via a floppy disk?
Yes. Automatic scripts (e.g. setup-bootdir) can take care of this.
> Altenatively,
> can the DOS files be mounted on the linux system, but not as a dual boot
> setup?
Yes, they just need to be in a normal linux directory (can be ext2fs).
> What files would be needed?
For MSDOS (inc. Win 9x DOS): IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM, ...
For DRDOS/PCDOS: IBMBIO.SYS, IBMDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM, boot.blk, ... (see
documentation).
For FreeDOS: kernel.sys and command.com. Only the newest version of
FreeDOS works with a boot dir (not the kernel.sys included with DosEMU).
Bart
