Symlinked drive

Symlinked drive

[Scott]

Hi,

I am running dosemu under ubuntu 10.10 - version 1.4.0.1.

Anyway, I have a samba share mounted as /mnt/di. I have attempted to
set that up as drive E: in msdos, by putting a symlink in
.dosemu/drives:

   e -> /mnt/di

Dosemu fails to start, complaining that "Disk-device/file does not
exist".

However, if I make a directory called "/mnt/foo", put in it a symlink to
/mnt/di called "link", then dosemu starts fine, and e:/link contains
all of the files on the samba share. 

   e -> /mnt/foo
     /mnt/foo/link -> /mnt/di

However, the application I am trying to run needs to see those files
as just e:

How to proceed?

Thanks for any help!

Scott Swanson

Re: Symlinked drive

[Frank Cox]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:27:40 -0700
Scott wrote:

> How to proceed?

How about creating the symlink on dosemu's C: drive, then using the subst
command to map it to drive E:?

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Re: Symlinked drive

[Scott]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:02:43PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:27:40 -0700
> Scott wrote:
> 
> > How to proceed?
> 
> How about creating the symlink on dosemu's C: drive, then using the subst
> command to map it to drive E:?

Oh yeah! Been a *long* time since I've worked with dos other than to
use old apps I developed back then. Forgot all about subst!

BUT: it now gives me a "File allocation table bad" error! The symlink
still looks fine, just the subst'ed drive e: doesn't work. Strange.

Thanks for the help!

Scott Swanson

Re: Symlinked drive

[Ivan Baldo]

     Hello.
     Maybe you can solve it by using the lredir DOSEmu command to map 
the directory directly to the E: drive.
     Hope this helps!!!




El 10/03/11 19:28, Scott escribió:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:02:43PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>    
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:27:40 -0700
>> Scott wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> How to proceed?
>>>        
>> How about creating the symlink on dosemu's C: drive, then using the subst
>> command to map it to drive E:?
>>      
> Oh yeah! Been a *long* time since I've worked with dos other than to
> use old apps I developed back then. Forgot all about subst!
>
> BUT: it now gives me a "File allocation table bad" error! The symlink
> still looks fine, just the subst'ed drive e: doesn't work. Strange.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Scott Swanson
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Re: Symlinked drive

[Scott]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:19:36PM -0200, Ivan Baldo wrote:
>     Hello.
>     Maybe you can solve it by using the lredir DOSEmu command to map the 
> directory directly to the E: drive.
>     Hope this helps!!!
>

Yes, that seems to work! Muchas gracias! So excellent for some idiot
like me in a little town in Montana to get help from good folks in
Saskatchewan and Uruguay!

Scott Swanson