begin John Goley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Edward Mendelson, > > I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu 1.0.2.1 running > with MSDOS 6.22. windows' dos isn't the best one to use. you also want to stay away from dos 4.x.
> How did you do it? I am very new to Linux and Dosemu and need all the help I > can get. <BG> > > Trying version 1.0.2 with freedos on my new P4 1.7 ghz machine wouldn't work > at all. xdosemu said it was starting but would never give me a DOS box. > Never had this problem when I was using a AMD Athalon 1.2 ghz machine. > > Anyway my main question is how to get MSDOS to work rather than use the > provided freedos. > > Thanks for any help you could give me. well, i'm not edward and i don't know if this is the right way, but here's what i did. freedos was installed in /var/lib/dosemu/freedos, so i did: mv /var/lib/dosemu/freedos /root/oldfreedos # keep a copy somewhere mkdir /var/lib/dosemu/freedos and put command.com, io.sys, msdos.sys, autoexec.bat, config.sys and all the other DOS programs in /var/lib/dosemu/freedos. you can take them all from windows if you want dos 6, or you can take them from a dos 5 floppy. your choice. after awhile, i thought it was kind of goofy to have dos 5.0 in a directory named "freedos". so in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf, i changed: $_hdimage = "freedos dosgames cdrom" to $_hdimage = "dos dosgames cdrom" and renamed /var/lib/dosemu/freedos to /var/lib/dosemu/dos. note that the first directory in $_hdimage becomes your C: drive, and that's where DOS should go. so the short answer is: put whatever DOS you want to use in that directory. MAKE SURE to not mix up files from different dos's. also, the directories in $_hdimage are relative to $DOSEMU_LIB_DIR, defined in /var/lib/dosemu/global.conf. this may all sound complicated, but i assure you, i'm making it more complicated than it should be. pete -- The mathematics [of physics] has become ever more abstract, rather than more complicated. The mind of God appears to be abstract but not complicated. He also appears to like group theory. -- Tony Zee's `Fearful Symmetry' PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
