teckman wrote:
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> Steve Philp wrote:
>
> > teckman wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok im missing something while reading the docs i guess... but where
> > > am i when im in the emu dos? I type dos and the emulator comes up no
> > > prob... looks like dos. but i cant get to my dos files then. So i was
> > > going to put them where ever i end up when i type dos ..... ie: i want
> > > to run a dos draw pgm called thedraw where on my hd can i copy the pgm
> > > so that i can access it when i enter dos(emu)
> >
> > By default, DOSemu uses a hard drive image in /var/lib/dosemu as it's
> > "C: drive". It's just a big file that they've created so you can play
> > around.
> >
> > If you're comfortable with the idea, you could edit /etc/dosemu.conf and
> > tell it the name of your real DOS drive and it'll use that instead.
> > Edit the line that starts "$_hdimage =". There are good comments next
> > to that line, so you should be using your real DOS drive in no time!
>
> hmmmm close.. i changed it to $_hdimage = "/dev/hda1" this is my first
> drive called /win95 it starts to load but hangs at the c prompt not
> c:\> just c with the curser 2 lines under it and locked! i have to log in
> and kill the process to get the session back.
> It does look as if its reading my c:\config.sys file tho?? where am i going
> wrong? the /dev/hda1 is vfat in fstab should it be msdos?
I can't say that I've ever played with dosemu before, but I just fiddled
with it for a little bit to get it working.
I modified /etc/dosemu.conf and changed the $_hdimage line to the
windows partition.
I modified /etc/dosemu.users and added my username to the bottom of the
file.
Fired up dosemu and was greeted by a sideways Windows boot logo, then
the "It's now safe to shutdown your computer". And that was it!
Hehehe. Linux can even kill Windows faster than Windows can!
So, I remounted the Windows partition and modified msdos.sys. It's a
text file, so just fire up your editor. You need to change the line
that says "BootGUI=1" to read "BootGUI=0" so that it won't try to start
Windows right off the bat.
Then I unmounted the Windows partition and tried xdos again. Worked
great this time. A little pausing every once in a while, but that's
probably because Netscape pulls mail every couple of minutes.
Give the msdos.sys file modification a try and see if it helps. (I just
tried it at the console also and it seems to work fine there also).
All of my playing was with my Win98 partition, but I'd imagine that the
instructions would work just as well with 95.
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Steve Philp
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