Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> and I compiled dosemu-1.1.3.7 with the attached compile-time settings.
Don't use setup-dosemu script for
now as it removes some important
options from compiletime-settings.
The "compiletime-settings" provided
by default would do in most cases
(or edit it manually).

> so it uses the image as a virtual disk instead of the "freedos" 
> directory as a network drive.
You can use also an msdos directory
as a network drive. For some reasons
I think it is better than the hdimage.
All you need is just to delete the
freedos files and copy the MS-DOS
ones (io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com).
In fact there is probably no need to
even erase the freedos files, as dosemu
recognizes the system files by their names,
and MS-DOS's files have a higher priority
when both DOSes are present.

> 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.
Try this:
1. in the directory you copied the vga.pcf
in, type "mkfontdir".
2. in xterm type "xset fp rehash" to make
your X server to search for the new fonts.

Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>
>> and I compiled dosemu-1.1.3.7 with the attached compile-time settings.
>
> Don't use setup-dosemu script for
> now as it removes some important
> options from compiletime-settings.
> The "compiletime-settings" provided
> by default would do in most cases
> (or edit it manually). 


So just "./default-configure ; make"?

Btw, with a newer binutils spit this in the final link phase:

lib/libarch_linux_mapping.a(mapself.o)(.text+0x671): In function 
`realloc_mapping_self':
: `sys_errlist' is deprecated; use `strerror' or `strerror_r' instead

>
>> so it uses the image as a virtual disk instead of the "freedos" 
>> directory as a network drive.
>
> You can use also an msdos directory
> as a network drive.


I know. My intent was to install dos 6.22 but it refused to install into 
a network drive
since the installation sequence recognizes that C: is not "in an 
acceptable format"
and then "format c:" does not format a network drive so the install exits.
I then created the disk image, which is over 6 MB after installing the 3 
floppies.
This refused to boot up. "strings dosdisk.bin | more" shows the correct 
directory contents
and the readable file contents. (Like "Incorrect DOS version", 
"Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready", etc.) I wanted to use the 
beforementioned
$_hdimage "freedos dosdisk.bin"
to copy the dos-6.22 files to C: but this does not work either.

> For some reasons
> I think it is better than the hdimage.
> All you need is just to delete the
> freedos files and copy the MS-DOS
> ones (io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com).
> In fact there is probably no need to
> even erase the freedos files, as dosemu
> recognizes the system files by their names,
> and MS-DOS's files have a higher priority
> when both DOSes are present.


As you instructed, I copied io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com to 
~/dosemu/freedos.
It boots up happily, but DIR D: shows no D:\DOS directory and the io.sys 
and msdos.sys
are also 0 bytes there. This seems to be a problem with dosemu-1.1.3.7's 
virtual disk handling.

But wait, I created a new diskimage, booted up with dos-6.22 from 
network drive, d: is the image,
copying and listing shows the correct files and sizes. Now where's the 
problem? When I have time,
I will try to reproduce this.

>> 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. 
>

I know the method I just did not bother to do it. There was the bigger 
problem
with dos-6.22 not booting from virtual disk.

Now I tried some games, some worked, some didn't. E.g. doom2 didn't,
supaplex (a boulder dash clone) did. Now back to work. ;-)

> Try this:
> 1. in the directory you copied the vga.pcf
> in, type "mkfontdir". 

> 2. in xterm type "xset fp rehash" to make
> your X server to search for the new fonts. 


But I did neither this not "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs reload".
Today morning I switched on the machine, the font is working, as I expected.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi


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Game problem Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

[Boszormenyi Zoltan]

> Now I tried some games, some worked, some didn't. E.g. doom2 didn't,
> supaplex (a boulder dash clone) did. Now back to work. ;-) 


After setting up doom2 to "no sound", it works.

Supaplex uses a kind of "split screen", the lower part contains time
and other status info, the upper part is a 2D scrolling screen.
The problem is that under xdosemu, the lower part is scrolling, too
where it shouldn't.
Pinball Fantasies does not start, I do not know why, maybe because of the
network drive?

Serf City (Settlers I) starts but its mouse handling is too fast(?):
the mouse is too sensitive.

Xmas Lemmings: the screen is flashing, movements are too slow.
It also uses the split screen VGA feature. Maybe it polls the
horizontal retrace too much?

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi


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Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

[Ged Haywood]

Hi Stas,

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> > and I compiled dosemu-1.1.3.7 with the attached compile-time settings.
> 
> Don't use setup-dosemu script for now as it removes some important
> options from compiletime-settings.

What options are important that it removes?

I compiled 1.1.3.7 with just static linking (while investigating why
it wouldn't compile I removed all other options using setup-dosemu)
and dosemu seems to run OK now.  However I do have a couple of little
problems with it, so I wonder if they're related to these mysterious
removed settings. :)

I'm running a homebrew 2.4.19 kernel.

73,
Ged.

Re: Game problem Re: Freshly installed dos-6.22 with disk image does not work

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> After setting up doom2 to "no sound", it works.
You haven't applied the necessary
patches from here:
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/stas/
so what is to expect.

> Supaplex uses a kind of "split screen", the lower part contains time
> and other status info, the upper part is a 2D scrolling screen.
> The problem is that under xdosemu, the lower part is scrolling, too
> where it shouldn't.
Vga emulation is far from perfection,
use dosemu in a console mode instead
to get the proper graphics.

> Pinball Fantasies does not start, I do not know why, maybe because of 
> the network drive?
Unlikely.

> Serf City (Settlers I) starts but its mouse handling is too fast(?):
> the mouse is too sensitive.
Yes, there is something weird with the
mouse driver of dosemu. Under console
you can use an external mouse driver
however. Also try fiddling with emumouse.com.

>> 2. in xterm type "xset fp rehash" to make
>> your X server to search for the new fonts.  
>  But I did neither this not "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs reload".
>  Today morning I switched on the machine, the font is working, as I 
>  expected.
But you asked for the way of doing that
without restarting an X server, didn't
you? Hmm...