Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I went and largely read the instructions. largely meaning that my spanish is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) Would it be possible for you to put together English translation or summary of that document? My Portugese and Spanish is at 0. [ I would not mind the CD not working as I

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread Behan Webster
across. Check it out. http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? (No, I have no relation to altavista, nor do I gain anything by promoting it. I just think it's a useful tool that's helped me out a couple of times). I'm still not confident enough to try running Win95 under dosemu yet

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-18 Thread servis
://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? (No, I have no relation to altavista, nor do I gain anything by promoting it. I just think it's a useful tool that's helped me out a couple of times). I'm still not confident enough to try running Win95 under dosemu yet though. 8) Behan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 04:55:24PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote: I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? You *can* run Win3.1 under Dosemu, and there is a lot of documenattion in /usr/doc/dosemu about it, BUT: You need Windows and Os/2 license. Better

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to applications. Then allow

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 03:45:15AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-17 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-17 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU, and others reported success (and failure ;-). Would there be any changes

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-17 Thread servis
On 16 Mar, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote: I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-17 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Mar, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote: I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's

help with dosemu

1998-03-17 Thread Shaleh
I have the latest dosemu from hamm. I am having a problem using lredir to mount a directory under dos. I would like to mount /usr/local/dos as my d:. Having done this I would like to install some dos based games. when I type 'lredir d: linux\fs\usr/local/dos' at the dosemu prompt I get a error

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-16 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote: I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running win95 under DOSEMU

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where win95 lives

Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-15 Thread Asher Haig
I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth in this? Please no responses asking why I want to run Windows... It's a need, not a desire. Thanks - Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only thing I'd rather

Re: dosemu and graphics

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, David Morris wrote: My computer runs Debian continually. However, lately, I have been needing to reboot to dos (a 6 year old daughter who wants to play a couple dos games who it is very hard to say 'no' to). I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based

dosemu and graphics

1998-03-06 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
David Morris writes: I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based program and have tried to get it to run in graphics mode so the games are more accessible. However, as a normal user I can't get it. If I try to run vgaon it kicks out an error: CAN'T DO VIDEO INIT, BIOS

dosemu and graphics

1998-03-05 Thread David Morris
My computer runs Debian continually. However, lately, I have been needing to reboot to dos (a 6 year old daughter who wants to play a couple dos games who it is very hard to say 'no' to). I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based program and have tried to get it to run

Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Anyone? Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Jean-Michel Rouet
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... -- Jean-Michel Rouet (thesard Dpt ITI

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Gernot Bauer
Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Jean-Michel Rouet
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Jean-Michel Rouet wrote: Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just have the hdimage there :( Am I missing something? I've inspected the dosemu_0.66.3-1.deb package it contains : -rw-r--r-- root/root 28011 May 5 13:36 1997 usr/lib

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread John Spence
On Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 02:20:42PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: I installed the dosemu-package (stable-distribution) but the config-file is missing (should be /etc/dosemu/conf) and I cant find a readme how to create one... Maybe have a look in /var/lib/dosemu/... I just have

Re: Dosemu-problems

1998-02-26 Thread Gernot Bauer
Verify that /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist exists go to /etc as root do a $ rm -f conf $ ln -s /usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist conf and that should do the job ! Dear Jean-Michel, thanx a lot, that was the solution. Gernot

DOSEMU configuration

1998-01-23 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
I give up! I have tried to configure DOSEMU to run on my Debian system without success. I am dual-booting NT from the primary partition, so I can't build from /dev/hda1 otherwise it comes up with cannot load NTLDR :) I have a bootable DOS 6.2 diskette here which if I build a diskimge from

DOSEMU and IPX

1998-01-14 Thread fealvar
Is it posible to run ipx under DOSEMU 0.66 without linux ipx support? __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Potenciado por Debian GNU

Re: DOSEMU and IPX

1998-01-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 05:46:57PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it posible to run ipx under DOSEMU 0.66 without linux ipx support? You may be able to run one of the IPX-over-packet-driver drivers (in the Crynwr collection?) on top of the packet driver that DOSEMU provides to DOS (I think

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-12 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus writes: Yes, this is true. Lredir does only work with real dos, either from IBM or Microsoft. Does it not work with OpenDOS? Well, you tell me ;) What is OpenDOS? Maybe it works, but it certainly works not with FDOS. bye, Marcus -- TO

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: So does this mean, that I HAVE to get microslop dos, or something similar to lredir drives? Would be slightly sad, since dosemu is a bit useless to me w/o the lredir functionality... You can also try Opendos from Caldera. It is free. In some aspects

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-11 Thread Neilen Marais
I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find the meaning of the errors anywhere in the docs. I get

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-11 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find the meaning

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-11 Thread john
Marcus writes: Yes, this is true. Lredir does only work with real dos, either from IBM or Microsoft. Does it not work with OpenDOS? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-09 Thread dfederman
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi all I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. If I recall arightly, this is a problem with the version of DOS you are utilizing for dosemu. The DOS kernel that seems to come with dosemu doesn't support network drives. (Is it a sort of OpenDos lite

Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-08 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find the meaning of the errors anywhere in the docs. If on the other

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-08 Thread Mark W. Blunier
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: Hi all I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu. I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find the meaning

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. This seems to indicate that the boot partition, normally dev/hda1, cannot be DOS on a dual boot system if you intend to use

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. I don't believe this. bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 03:06:02AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 10:43:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. I don't believe this. I don't know why

lilo and dosemu

1997-12-13 Thread tmalloy
It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access partitions which use the lilo boot system. This seems to indicate that the boot partition, normally dev/hda1, cannot be DOS on a dual boot system if you intend to use dosemu from linux. Two solutions are suggested by this. One repartion

Re: lilo and dosemu

1997-12-13 Thread David Z. Maze
tmalloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access t partitions which use the lilo boot system. Why not? The only rule I'm aware of is that you can't use DOSEMU directly on a mounted filesystem -- though IIRC you can use lredir to gain access

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. I have used both WP5.1 and 6.0 with dosemu (many versions over the past three years

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-27 Thread Erv Walter
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote: What sort of problems are you having? Instability to such an extend that I cannot us Wordperfect in Dosemu. I What version of DOS is doesmu running. I found wp

RE: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Oct-97 Johann Spies wrote: Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. Johann I don't recall any special diffculty once I'd got dosemu itself running OK. What appears to be the nature of your problem? Maybe the following

dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-25 Thread Johann Spies
Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. I have used both WP5.1 and 6.0 with dosemu (many versions over the past three years) with no trouble or anything special done to set it up

Dosemu and a Matrox Millenium?

1997-10-05 Thread Johannes Martinez
Has anybody had any luck getting this to work? I can't seem to get any graphics modes. Or has anybody been able to get QPV working under dosemu, i really want to use this graphics viewer. johannes martinez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

dosemu and vfat

1997-09-29 Thread Lawrence
Is dosemu vfat32 compatible? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: dosemu and vfat

1997-09-29 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: Is dosemu vfat32 compatible? I assume it is, if you run a vfat32-compatible DOS in it. That would be MS-DOS 7.1, taken from Windows 95 OSR2 or any higher version. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Running DOSEmu as a regular user...

1997-09-19 Thread Dale Martin
Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's another datapoint on this problem - root (for our domain - not me - doh!) gets this mail when I run it: [ begin included mail ] -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Illegal user Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Illegal DOSEMU user: uid=7023 [ end included

Running DOSEmu as a regular user...

1997-09-18 Thread Dale Martin
I _have_ to be missing something simple. My /etc/dosemu/users looks like: dmartin c_all root c_all I'm user dmartin. I type xdos, and it says: ~ xdos Illegal User!!! I have read/write permission on /var/lib/dosemu/hdiamge.first, and the floppy drive. Here are the permissions of /usr/bin

Video Card and SVGA and dosemu

1997-09-18 Thread adavis
I bought a Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM. This is the safe route, I think, as there are some 2MB boards with a slower RAMDAC chip. I guess SVGAlib doesn't support this card, and this is certainly a problem What I am wondering about though is dosemu. I was able to get dosemu (the debian package

RE: dosemu w/ graphics mode in X

1997-08-07 Thread wb2oyc
On 22:44:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to get graphics mode to work in X with dosemu. I have seen screenshots of windows 3.1 running under X in a xdos box. I don't want to do anything that exotic. I want graphics mode in an xdos box. Any hints? Erv, If you get an answer

dosemu w/ graphics mode in X

1997-08-05 Thread Erv Walter
Does anyone know how to get graphics mode to work in X with dosemu. I have seen screenshots of windows 3.1 running under X in a xdos box. I don't want to do anything that exotic. I want graphics mode in an xdos box. Any hints? Thanks, Erv -- Graduate Student

dosemu

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
I installed the debian dosemu 0.66 package the other day and I can't get it to totally work -- my dos partition (/dev/hda1) does not show up. In the /etc/dosemu/conf I have the line disk { parition /dev/hda1 } When I boot, I can see the hdimage on drive c: and drive d: has a file called IPL.SYS

Re: dosemu without dos being installed?

1997-07-28 Thread stick
Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? DOS does not have to be installed on the hard-drive for dosemu to be installed. Some version of DOS must be available for dosemu to be able to boot thou It does *not* have to be MS-DOS. I've been running DR-DOS for years under dosemu. Caldera

Re: dosemu without dos being installed?

1997-07-28 Thread Randy Edwards
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? Yes. I run with nothing but ext2 partitions on this machine and have dosemu installed. However, as I understand it (read: not sure 'cause I haven't messed with it much), fdos' redirection of ext2

dosemu without dos being installed?

1997-07-28 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Dosemu help

1997-07-18 Thread vanryn
Hello all, I downloaded dosemu 0.64.3 and compiled it according to the Quickstart. I am currently running kernel 2.0.9. If I understand correctly, my kernel DOES NOT require any patching to enable vm86plus with this latest version of dosemu. When I try to run dos I get, vm86plus service

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-17 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Eloy A. Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! At 04:45 PM 7/11/97 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: ! ! However, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the paragraph ! about the base package, and that will effectively purge it. ! Forcing dpkg to remove the package removes all of the files in /dev. ! It's my

Re: dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

1997-07-14 Thread Mike
Brent Hendricks wrote: But OpenDOS from Caldera uses lredir just fine. I haven't had any problems using OpenDOS with DOSEMU. No more MS operating systems on my computer! Now if only we could redistribute OpenDOS with DOSEMU. The second best thing would be to have an .deb package that would

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-14 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, At 04:45 PM 7/11/97 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: However, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the paragraph about the base package, and that will effectively purge it. Forcing dpkg to remove the package removes all of the files in /dev. It's my error, sorry. But removing this paragraph by hand

dosemu and lredir problem redirecting drives

1997-07-14 Thread Paul Kirschner
I installed Debian 1.3.1 with DOSEMU. Mapping drives according to the documentation didn't work for me... Welcome to dosemu 0.66! C:\ lredir e: \linux\fs\tmp Error 3e redirecting drive E: to \LINUX\FS\TMP C:\ lredir e: \linux\fs/msdos Error 40 redirecting drive E: to \LINUX\FS/MSDOS (BTW

Re: dosemu and lredir problem redirecting drives

1997-07-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Paul == Paul Kirschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul I installed Debian 1.3.1 with DOSEMU. Mapping drives Paul according to the documentation didn't work for me... FreeDOS unfortunately does not work with lredir. Try Caldera's OpenDOS or (shudder) Billy's Ms. dos. -- Brought to you

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-12 Thread Bruce Perens
However, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the paragraph about the base package, and that will effectively purge it. Forcing dpkg to remove the package removes all of the files in /dev. It's my error, sorry. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL

dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

1997-07-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have dosemu 0.66.3-1. If I try to use lredir, like C:\ lredir D: LINUX\FS\TMP I get Error 3c redirecting drive D: to LINUX\FS\TMP The error number is 3e, if I try to mount my mounted dos-partion under dosemu. Dosemu also says in the be start, that D: is directory /, but dir D: gives rubbish

Re: dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

1997-07-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jouni == Jouni [EMAIL PROTECTED] fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jouni I have dosemu 0.66.3-1. If I try to use lredir, like C:\ Jouni lredir D: LINUX\FS\TMP I get Error 3c redirecting drive Jouni D: to LINUX\FS\TMP Jouni The error number is 3e, if I try to mount my mounted

Re: dosemu lredir don't redir :-(

1997-07-11 Thread Brent Hendricks
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Jouni I have dosemu 0.66.3-1. If I try to use lredir, like C:\ Jouni lredir D: LINUX\FS\TMP I get Error 3c redirecting drive Jouni D: to LINUX\FS\TMP I had this happen to me until I submitted to Bill's will and installed msdos on my hard drive image

1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
it is an essential package. It does not stop me from working but it would be cleaner if i could remove it. Removing its entry from the status file would it be safe ? - dselect did not downgrade the packages i had installed from hamm except for dosemu. I had dosemu_0.66.6-1 and now i have

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Igor Grobman
in a completely unusable state. Just leave that package as it is. - dselect did not downgrade the packages i had installed from hamm except for dosemu. I had dosemu_0.66.6-1 and now i have dosemu_0.66.3-1 (the version in bo). you can just upgrade back to hamm version. -- Proudly

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, Laurent Bonnaud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : i first installed Debian 1.1 (how was it called btw ?) Buzz (Lightyear) was the name of Debian 1.1. Cool name. : - dselect reports the package base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete but will not :purge it (neither will dpkg --purge) because it is an

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Igor == Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Igor Igor NO NO NO!! Don't try removing this package. It owns all of your device Igor files. Removing it will leave your system in a completely unusable state. Igor Just leave that package as it is. Yes, that's what i see when i list the

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note that it is possible to remove base (see one of my messages in the -user or -devel archive), but I don't recommend it if you don't know what you're doing. You can by installing al the replacement packages first (make sure you have the makedev package), then

Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu

1997-07-10 Thread jdassen
On Jul 10, Laurent Bonnaud wrote Igor == Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Igor Igor NO NO NO!! Don't try removing this package. It owns all of your device Igor files. Removing it will leave your system in a completely unusable state. Igor Just leave that package as it is.

Re: dosemu comes w/o conf file

1997-07-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 29, 1997 at 01:30:37PM -0600, Paul Rightley wrote: The solution to this problem is simply to purge dosemu and then reinstall it. Thank you Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler. The problem is that dselect only removes packages - it does not purge them. This means that one cannot use dselect

RE: dosemu comes w/o conf file

1997-06-29 Thread Paul Rightley
The solution to this problem is simply to purge dosemu and then reinstall it. Thank you Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler. The problem is that dselect only removes packages - it does not purge them. This means that one cannot use dselect and remove and then successfully install dosemu. This is analogous

problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-28 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, I'm running Debian 1.3 with some packages from unstable (aka hamm), eg. libc6, xfree 3.3 and several packages depending on it. I noticed the following (minor) problems: 1) DOSEmu I installed DOSEmu 0.66.6 and when I run it as an ordinary user I always get dos: error in loading shared

Re: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-28 Thread David Pfitzner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) wrote: (about dosemu 0.66.6) Well, fdos seems to have problems with lredir. I only get garbage on drive d: (which should actually be the whole linux fs). From the dosemu mailing list, it appears that lredir does not work with fdos, due to missing

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase]

1997-06-28 Thread Gary L. Dolan
In an earlier message, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: I'm running Debian 1.3 with some packages from unstable (aka hamm), eg. libc6, xfree 3.3 and several packages depending on it. I noticed the following (minor) problems: 1) DOSEmu I installed DOSEmu 0.66.6 and when I run

dosemu comes w/o conf file

1997-06-27 Thread Paul Rightley
I just install dosemu 0.66.3-1 (the version in stable). It manages to install perfectly, but 'dos' gives the error 'can't open /etc/dosemu/conf' or something similar. When I look in /etc/dosemu, I find conf link to a file that is not present - 'dist'. Also, no /etc/dosemu.conf file is provided

Re: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
2) fvwm95 I had a problem with fvwm95-2.0.42a-10. It didn't contain the file system.fvwmrc95 in /etc/X11/fvwm95, so I copied system.fvwmrc95.dpkg-dist. Yesterday I installed fvwm95-2.0.42a-10.2 because I thought the bug was corrected. But unfortunately after installation all fvwm modules from

Re: problems with dosemu, fvwm95, xbase

1997-06-27 Thread Dima
>>Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: >Hi, > >I'm running Debian 1.3 with some packages from unstable (aka hamm), >eg. libc6, xfree 3.3 and several packages depending on it. I noticed >the following (minor) problems: > >1) DOSEmu >I installed DOSEmu 0.66.6 [ snip ] &

Installing dosemu after 1.21.3: Problem

1997-06-16 Thread Jan Finjord
dosemu at all! Get repeatedly Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial) stable/binary-i386/otherosfs/dosemu_0.66.3-1.deb Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... 47526 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dosemu

Re: Installing dosemu after 1.21.3: Problem

1997-06-16 Thread Adam Klein
an ms-dos partition). Afterwards, I cannot install dosemu at all! Get repeatedly Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial) stable/binary-i386/otherosfs/dosemu_0.66.3-1.deb Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... 47526 files

Re: DOSEMU mtools

1997-05-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 27 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: files in /usr/doc/dosemu and have visited the DOSEMU homepage and have seen a couple of references to mtools-3.6 having a utility called setup- hdimage. I've installed mtools_3.6-1

dosemu

1997-05-28 Thread Rick Younie
A fellow posted a couple weeks ago about problems making a larger hdimage for dosemu. If t hat's you and you're still having problems, I just got dosemu working properly -- larger hdimage and accessing a linux subdirectory. Lotsa fiddly bits. Be glad to help if you write. Rick -- [EMAIL

DOSEMU mtools

1997-05-27 Thread stick
Howdy all, I'm wanting to setup multiple hdimages of various sizes for use in dosemu-0.66.3-1. I've tried using mkhdimage with little or no success. I can create the drive, but as soon as I copy 1 or more files to it, DOSEMU fails to recognize it as a valid drive. I've read all of the files

Re: DOSEMU mtools

1997-05-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 27 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy all, I'm wanting to setup multiple hdimages of various sizes for use in dosemu-0.66.3-1. I've tried using mkhdimage with little or no success. I can create the drive, but as soon as I copy 1 or more files to it, DOSEMU fails to recognize

Re: DOSEMU mtools

1997-05-27 Thread stick
On Tue, 27 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: files in /usr/doc/dosemu and have visited the DOSEMU homepage and have seen a couple of references to mtools-3.6 having a utility called setup- hdimage. I've installed mtools_3.6-1 and don't see anything like that. setup-hdimage comes

Re: dosemu and OpenDOS

1997-05-19 Thread Gleb Arshinov
John == jghasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I just downloaded OpenDOS. Ironically, it comes in a John self-extracting archive which requires MSDOS. No problem, Alternately, (if you haven't done so already) you may try unzipping the archive, since you can unzip self extracting zip

Re: DOSEMU drive access problem

1997-05-19 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
On May 18, 6:54pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Subject: Re: DOSEMU drive access problem On Sun, 18 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: DOS-C version 0.92 [FreeDOS Release] (Build 37). Is freedos compatible with MS-DOS? Try using msdos boot disk first. Aw, do I have to? I was just getting

Re: DOSEMU drive access problem

1997-05-19 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: On May 18, 6:54pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Subject: Re: DOSEMU drive access problem On Sun, 18 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: DOS-C version 0.92 [FreeDOS Release] (Build 37). Is freedos compatible with MS-DOS? According

dosemu and OpenDOS

1997-05-18 Thread jghasler
I just downloaded OpenDOS. Ironically, it comes in a self-extracting archive which requires MSDOS. No problem, I've got dosemu, right? Problem is, the hdimage is too small. The doc's suggest that a tool called mkdexe will do the job, but it seems to be missing. A web search failed to turn

Re: dosemu and OpenDOS

1997-05-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, how do I create a larger hdimage? I do not have MSDOS or any other Microsoft software. /usr/sbin/mkhdimage ? Cheers, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DOSEMU drive access problem

1997-05-18 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I'm having trouble getting dosemu to be able to access the dos partition on my hard drive. The dos partition is on a second drive which is a SCSI drive; the first drive is an IDE drive. The dos partition is mounted under Linux as /dos: leisure:~ df Filesystem 1024-blocks

Re: dosemu and OpenDOS

1997-05-18 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: So, how do I create a larger hdimage? Paul Seelig writes: /usr/sbin/mkhdimage? Yup, that lets me create any size hdimage I want. An empty, unbootable one, which I can't get at from my bootable hdimage. How do I either make it bootable, or make it accessible from my bootable one?

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: Have you looked in the /etc/dosemu directory? lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 1 15:13 conf - ../../usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Apr 16 17:32 users I had to `dpkg --purge dosemu' before installing

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-05 Thread Adam Klein
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to get dosemu up and running, but it says I need to get FreeDOS first. What is FreeDOS? Where can I get it? When I get it, what do I do with it? Thanks. FreeDOS is the fdos package. It's in dselect under fdos. Incase

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-05 Thread Rick Jones
Which mirror are you using? This is ftp.debian.org: --- Up-to-date Optional packages in section otherosfs --- *** Opt otherosf dosemu 0.66.2-10.66.2-1The Linux DOS Emulator *** Opt otherosf dosfstools 1.0-8 1.0-8 Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 4 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: FreeDOS is the fdos package. It's in dselect under fdos. Incase you aren't aware of it the package list in dselect is searchable (using a / character). If I'm right in dosemu_64.0.deb was in /etc/dosemu a file fdos.conf which contained useful

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-05 Thread Rick Jones
a / character). If I'm right in dosemu_64.0.deb was in /etc/dosemu a file fdos.conf which contained useful initialisation for dosemu with fdos. But in dosemu_66.*.deb *all* configuration files are missing :-) (but they are mentioned in the docs). Is there any failure while assembling the package

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