commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

[Christian Fischer]

Hi all.

Is there any commandline switch to override the $_hdimage setting?
# dosemu -I 'disk { something "/path/to/drives/c" }'
don't work because of missing the right key for "something" in the global.conf 
doc. Probably the key "disk" is only useful for real disks or diskimages, is 
that right?
Is there any way to do that without changing the link to drive c ?

Regards
Christian
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commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

[Christian Fischer]

Hi all.

Is there any commandline switch to override the $_hdimage setting?
# dosemu -I 'disk { something "/path/to/drives/c" }'
don't work because of missing the right key for "something" in the global.conf 
doc. Probably the key "disk" is only useful for real disks or diskimages, is 
that right?
Is there any way to do that without changing the link to drive c ?

Regards
Christian
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Re: commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Christian Fischer wrote:
> # dosemu -I 'disk { something "/path/to/drives/c" }'
> don't work because of missing the right key for "something" in the 
> global.conf doc.
"something" should be a "directory" in
your case. Can also be "hdimage",
"partition" and "wholedisk".

Re: commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

[Christian Fischer]

On Friday 04 March 2005 04:39, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> > # dosemu -I 'disk { something "/path/to/drives/c" }'
> > don't work because of missing the right key for "something" in the
> > global.conf doc.
>
> "something" should be a "directory" in
> your case. Can also be "hdimage",
> "partition" and "wholedisk".

Hi Stas,
If i run dosemu as non root i get always configuration file parsing errors.
If i run dosemu as root i get in some cases configuration file parsing errors, 
but it doesn't work at all.

running
# xdosemu -I 'disk { directory 
"/data/imports/nfsroot/dosimages/khk_mufi/drives/c" }'

starts dosemu but without my drive "c". bootlog shows the following:

Parsing commandline statements.
CONF: Parsing commandline file.
device: /data/imports/nfsroot/dosimages/khk_mufi/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   
t: -1 drive D:
CONF: config variable c_comline unset

but i haven't the content of my drive in D:

"hdimage" don't work because drives/c is a directory and no image, "partition" 
don't work because it is no partition and "wholedisk" don't work because 
drives/c is a directory.

Without the "c" this is the same (probably i have to give the path as the root 
of my drives, without the "c")

Do You have any suggestions?

Christian
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Re: commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Christian Fischer wrote:
> running
> # xdosemu -I 'disk { directory 
> "/data/imports/nfsroot/dosimages/khk_mufi/drives/c" }'
> starts dosemu but without my drive "c". bootlog shows the following:
Try setting $_hdimage="" in your
dosemu.conf. -I 'disk... stuff only
appends the drive to the end of your
$_hdimage list, so it won't be c: unless
you set $_hdimage to "".
There is probably a better way of doing
that of course.

> but i haven't the content of my drive in D:
What do you have there? Have you tried
the same with lredir?

>> "something" should be a "directory" in
>> your case. Can also be "hdimage",
   ^^^^^^^^^^
>> "partition" and "wholedisk".
> "hdimage" don't work because drives/c is a directory and no image, "partition" 
> don't work because it is no partition and "wholedisk" don't work because 
> drives/c is a directory.
As stated above, it should be a "directory"
*in your case*, this is pretty obvious.

Re: commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

[Christian Fischer]

On Friday 04 March 2005 10:54, Christian Fischer wrote:

> > "something" should be a "directory" in
> > your case. Can also be "hdimage",
> > "partition" and "wholedisk".
>
> "hdimage" don't work because drives/c is a directory and no image,
> "partition" don't work because it is no partition and "wholedisk" don't
> work because drives/c is a directory.

Sorry Stas, i misunderstood your comment. Only "directory" can be a solution 
in my case.

The logentry is not right, volume D: is /root, not the nfs share.

device: /data/imports/nfsroot/dosimages/khk_mufi/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   
t: -1 drive D:
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Re: commandline switch for changing $_hdimage settings?

[Christian Fischer]

On Friday 04 March 2005 19:27, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Try setting $_hdimage="" in your
> dosemu.conf. -I 'disk... stuff only
> appends the drive to the end of your
> $_hdimage list, so it won't be c: unless
> you set $_hdimage to "".
> There is probably a better way of doing
> that of course.

Well, that works fine. Is it documented (i haven't read about that in the 
technical README) that -I 'disk ...' stuff only appends drives? Is this the 
case only for drives or for -I stuff at all? 

> > but i haven't the content of my drive in D:
>
> What do you have there? Have you tried
> the same with lredir?

I haven't tried with lredir. 
/data/imports/nfsroot/dosimages/khk_mufi/drives/c is an nfs import from an 
alphaserver 1200 running gentoo linux and contains normal program files 
(Fakturation software).

I don't know much about lredir. I think it isn't useful for my needs. We have 
some dosprograms (office programs) used by some users with different 
permissions, they get the homes and the working directories in it automounted 
(autofs) from my alphaserver, and they should be able to run multiple dos 
sessions at the same time on different dos-rootdirectories. 

To set $_hdimage = "" (and starting the sessions with -I 'disk ...') is pretty 
well for me.

And sorry again for my last response.
Christian
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