Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 20 Nov 23:57 -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > A bug report is warranted. I agree with you. Perhaps someone on the Qemu lists can assist in debugging: http://wiki.qemu.org/MailingLists > Thanks for the help, ... Peter E. You're welcome. - Nate -- "The optimist proclai

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-20 Thread peter
From: Nate Bargmann Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:15:18 -0600 > I'm curious if you can read the floppy directory contents using the > 'mdir' command from the mtools package? If you can do that as peter, > then that may point to a problem with qemu. Just a thought. This is for a MS-DOS 5.0

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 19 Nov 23:58 -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Nate Bargmann > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:20:48 -0600 > > ... should have been 'groups peter'. > > peter@armada:~$ groups peter > peter : peter adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev > > Group membership is OK. Y

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-19 Thread peter
From: Nate Bargmann Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:20:48 -0600 > ... should have been 'groups peter'. peter@armada:~$ groups peter peter : peter adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev Group membership is OK. If I am not permitted to read the floppy, the drive motor shouldn't twi

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 18 Nov 23:10 -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Nate Bargmann > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:26:06 -0600 > > It is rw only for the root user and members of the floppy group. Is > > peter a member of the floppy group? Use the 'group' command to find > > out. > > No group comm

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-18 Thread peter
From: Nate Bargmann Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:26:06 -0600 > It is rw only for the root user and members of the floppy group. Is > peter a member of the floppy group? Use the 'group' command to find > out. No group command but peter is in the floppy group. root@armada:/home/peter# which

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 18 Nov 20:49 -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#sec_005finvocation > contains, > "`-fda file' > ... > You can use the host floppy by using `/dev/fd0' as filename ..." > > Therefore take any diskette which the bare PC can boot from and > try to

Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-18 Thread peter
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#sec_005finvocation contains, "`-fda file' ... You can use the host floppy by using `/dev/fd0' as filename ..." Therefore take any diskette which the bare PC can boot from and try to boot the virtual machine from it. Here fd0 twitches; then an error. p