Re: Your DOSEMU request

Re: Your DOSEMU request

[Stephen torri]

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On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 06:57, norseman wrote:
> Stephen;
> 	You might read the attachment I'm including and
> then try installing the pre-compiles per it's suggestions.
> I am able to run the pre-compiled 1.1.99.1 and Freedos I
> downloaded from the DOSEMU.ORG links. The problems I am
> having are noted in the attachment. Also - the emulators
> that are newer than 1.0.2.1 seem to have smaller memory
> capacities.  If your CPU is "latest and greatest" you may
> not be able to get a compile to run. So far - I can't.
> Like me - you may need to stay with the pre-compiles until
> the others get caught up.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.

The guide helped with getting dosemu to start. Thanks. I chose to do the
path to use freedos in synthetic mode since I do not have a dos
partition available.

Now the next issue is the CDROM drive. I have a CD-RW drive but I
typically do not use the ide-scsi module. I use the ide-cd module
instead. So my cdrom appears at /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (Gentoo 1.4 system).

I placed a symbolic link to the drive in my .dosemu/drives directory:

lrwxr-xr-x    1 storri   wheel          10 Jan 14 20:42 d -> /dev/cdrom

The Autoexec.emu and Config.emu mention the cdrom but I did not know
where to place them. Are these files to replace autoexec.bat config.sys
respectively?

Stephen

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Re: more on your DOSEMU request

[Stephen torri]

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On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 03:38, norseman wrote:
> normally, in the synthetic mode, you only need the .bat/.sys files. thus
> the contents of the .emu files can be made the contents of the .bat/.sys
> files and you won't need to bother with two sets of configs.
> 
> just reading the above and not having more to go on, 
> 	/dev/cdrom -> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
> and
>         $HOME/.dosemu/drives/d -> /dev/cdrom
> 
> yes???
> 
> 
> the cdrom.sys in freedos is expecting to find a /dev/cdrom entry.
> 
> 
> 
> IF-- this doesn't work - you may need to use the ide-scsi method.
> hopefully no need to go to this trouble.

I get the following message when I have it setup as you suggested:

bash-2.05b$ ./xdos
ERROR: IMAGE /home/storri/.dosemu/drives/d header lacks magic string -
cannot autosense!

Stephen
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Re: more on your DOSEMU request

[Bart Oldeman]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Stephen torri wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 03:38, norseman wrote:
> > normally, in the synthetic mode, you only need the .bat/.sys files. thus
> > the contents of the .emu files can be made the contents of the .bat/.sys
> > files and you won't need to bother with two sets of configs.
> >
> > just reading the above and not having more to go on,
> > 	/dev/cdrom -> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
> > and
> >         $HOME/.dosemu/drives/d -> /dev/cdrom
> >
> > yes???

no! You have two alternatives to access the cdrom:
a) device=cdrom.sys (in config.sys)
   shsucdx /d:mscd0001 (in autoexec.bat)
   shsucdx will tell you the drive letter. Alternatively use mscdex.
b) $HOME/.dosemu/drives/d -> /cdrom
   where /cdrom is your CD mount point. In that case you must mount your
   CDROM in Linux.
   lredir d: linux\fs/cdrom
   would do the same (at the DOS prompt or autoexec.bat)

Bart