Installing dosemu

Installing dosemu

[Eric Van der Velden]

Hi,
I didn't succeed installing dosemu on my Linux machine.
I have dosemu-1.2.2.tgz  tar -x, so I have dosemu-1.2.2/ dir. In that 
dir. I have put the dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz file (I hope that is correct).
In dosemu-1.2.2/ I only did 'default things': ./configure; make; make 
install.
When I run dosemu (/usr/local/bin/dosemu), and give only <enter>'s ,I get
1.  HMA can't be enabled
2.  UMB's unavailable
3.  FreeCOM: XMSSwap-In: XMS copy error
4.  Cannot terminate permanent FreeCOM instance.

Bye.

Re: Installing dosemu

[Claudia Neumann]

Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 10:29 schrieb E vanderVelden:
> In the attachment you see what is shown when I do 'dosemu'.

There are several problems:
1. compilation error: look at config.log. Perhaps you are missing a library.

2. Normally you should use the dosemu-freedos-bin from the dosemu website 
including kernel.sys, autoexec.bat, config.sys and command.com and the files 
in /bin. The dosemu-freedos is optimized for dosemu. You could run dosemu 
with MSDOS and DRDOS but not in all aspect with freedos.

3. If you want to boot a DOS partition you can not use dosemu-freedos. You 
could use dosemu with freedos and then mount the DOS partition as drive D: 
and work on that partition. Problems starting dosemu will be logged in 
$HOME/.dosemu/boot.log. Your attached file only shows the start messages of 
the dos you are starting. They show a problem of the dos you want to start, 
not of dosemu.

See /usr/local/share/doc/dosemu especially dosemu-HOWTO.txt although the 
documentation is somewhat outdated.

cu

Claudia