Hi,

I wanted to play some old games on my new RH8.0 (all upgrades are applied),
and I compiled dosemu-1.1.3.7 with the attached compile-time settings.

I also installed the freedos package but for some reason the games I 
wanted to try
does not start.

So I decided to install MS-DOS 6.22 into a disk-image so I used
"mkfatimage16 -k 262144 >dosdisk.bin" to create the image and
with "xdosemu -A" I was able to install the 3 floppies.

After that I changed  $_hdimage:

$_hdimage = "dosdisk.bin"

so it uses the image as a virtual disk instead of the "freedos" 
directory as a network drive.

xdosemu now refuses to work. The boot.log attached. I copied the vga.pcf 
font to the
proper place but did not bother to restart the font server yet.

What's wrong with my installation?

When I change $_hdimage to

$_hdimage = "freedos dosdisk.bin"

then xdosemu loads freedos but listing D: seems to not contain the 
D:\DOS directory
and io.sys and msdos.sys both seem to be 0 bytes long.

On another machine, with a RH 7.3, I also installed dosemu-1.1.3.7 
(1.0.2 segfaults)
and it works there on a real win98 partition. I kept the old dosemu.conf 
et.al
from a previous RH 6.2 / dosemu-1.0.2 installation there.

I recompiled dosemu without experimental stuff to see what happens but 
no change.

BTW, the mkfatimage* executables, the setup-dosemu script, midid, etc 
should also
be installed somewhere (under /opt/dosemu/bin ?) when I do a 
"./install_systemwide".

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi