Unable to load freedos "No operating system error"

Unable to load freedos "No operating system error"

[Stephen torri]

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I have read up a few posting on this error off of Google. I cannot say
why I cannot start dosemu beyond it cannot find my freedos installation.
I am running 1.1.99.1 on a Gentoo 1.4 system. The variable _hmimage is
set to "drives/*". In my .dosemu/drives directory I have:

bash-2.05b$ ls drives/* -l
lrwxr-xr-x    1 storri   wheel          32 Jan 10 20:21 drives/c ->
/usr/share/dosemu/

The contents of /usr/share/dosemu are:

bash-2.05b$ ls -l /usr/share/dosemu
total 1068
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 12:28 Xfonts
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Oct 16 12:28 commands ->
freedos/dosemu
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          562 Oct 16 12:28 dosemu-bin.tgz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1072238 Oct 16 12:28
dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct  6 23:14 freedos
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 12:28 keymap

The contents of /usr/share/freedos is:
bash-2.05b$ ls -l /usr/share/dosemu/freedos/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 16 12:28 dosemu

In /usr/share/dosemu/freedos/dosemu are all the commands. What do I need
to change in order to get dosemu to start?

Stephen

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Re: Unable to load freedos "No operating system error"

[Stephen torri]

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On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:57, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > bash-2.05b$ ls drives/* -l
> > lrwxr-xr-x    1 storri   wheel          32 Jan 10 20:21 drives/c ->
> > /usr/share/dosemu/
> 
> That should point to /home/user/dosemu/freedos

Moved. Now drives/c points to /home/storir/dosemu/freedos.

> Copy the freedos directory into /home/user/dosemu/freedos

I copied /usr/share/dosemu/freedos/dosemu/* o
/home/storri/dosemu/freedos.

> And start again

Still broke. Still reports cannot find freedos.

Stephen
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Stephen Torri
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Re: Unable to load freedos "No operating system error"

[Stefan]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:23:56PM -0600, Stephen torri wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:57, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > > bash-2.05b$ ls drives/* -l
> > > lrwxr-xr-x    1 storri   wheel          32 Jan 10 20:21 drives/c ->
> > > /usr/share/dosemu/
> > 
> > That should point to /home/user/dosemu/freedos
> 
> Moved. Now drives/c points to /home/storir/dosemu/freedos.
> 
> > Copy the freedos directory into /home/user/dosemu/freedos
> 
> I copied /usr/share/dosemu/freedos/dosemu/* o
> /home/storri/dosemu/freedos.
> 
> > And start again
> 
> Still broke. Still reports cannot find freedos.

i don't know if that applies to you, but i had a similar problem, until i
deleted the ~/dosemu and ~/.dosemu dir, and started from the clean
/usr/share/dosemu (by simply invoking 'dosemu'). then it just worked 'out of the
box'.

h2h

stefan

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> Stephen
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Re: Unable to load freedos "No operating system error"

[Bart Oldeman]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Stephen torri wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:57, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > > bash-2.05b$ ls drives/* -l
> > > lrwxr-xr-x    1 storri   wheel          32 Jan 10 20:21 drives/c ->
> > > /usr/share/dosemu/
> >
> > That should point to /home/user/dosemu/freedos
>
> Moved. Now drives/c points to /home/storir/dosemu/freedos.

Then make sure that there exist freedos files in that directory. At least
kernel.sys and command.com should be there. If you compile from source
then dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz should be in the source directory, unless you
can use some other DOS.

Bart