On Wednesday 12 December 2001 09:48, chris huston wrote:
| Hi,
| I'm trying to play a few of my favorite dos games
| using linux xdos.
|
| Is there a location where i can move the dos games into
| its directory structure so i can reach them via xdos?
As per README.txt instructions, I made a new directory called drives in
/var/lib/dosemu/, created a symlink called C to the mounted dos drive,
then edited /etc/dosemu.conf
# mkdir -p /var/lib/dosemu/drives
# cd /var/lib/dosemu/drives
# ln -s /dos C
Using your favourite editor (I use vim) as root, edit /etc/dosemu.conf:
$_hdimage = drives/*
I can now access all files on my dos drive. My dos drive is usually
mounted as vfat on /mnt/windows but I created some aliases for root to
speed up the dos mounting:
alias mdos='mount -t msdos -o umask=000 /dev/hdb1 /dos'
alias mw='mount /mnt/windows/'
alias ud='umount /dos/'
alias uw='umount /mnt/windows'
# mkdir -p /dos # mount position for my dos drive
so all I have to do (as root) is unmount windows and mount dos before
running xdos:
# uw# umount /mnt/windows
# mdos # mount /dos
exit# [Ctrl+D] to return to user
$ xdos # run xdos as user
and when I'm finished with xdos:
$ su
Password: [password]
# ud# umount /dos
# mw# mount /mnt/windows
I think you can make symlinks in /var/lib/dosemu/drives to any dos-useable
dir on your hd which will give you access to those dirs. For example
you'd end up with:
/var/lib/dosemu/drives/C
/var/lib/dosemu/drives/D
/var/lib/dosemu/drives/E
/var/lib/dosemu/drives/F
and your /etc/dosemu.conf accesses all links in your drives dir. HTH
skinky
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