DosEmu in RedHat 7.2

DosEmu in RedHat 7.2

[Michael Lee]

Hi.  Has anyone had success using dosemu in redhat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18)?

I've tried virtually everything I could think of...  including multiple
rpms...  versions of dosemu that work fine with 2.2.X kernels...  recompiling
from the src.rpm...  downloading the latest (1.0.2.1) dosemu from sourceforge
and compiling that.  It just never works.

It compiles and runs without any errors (it even made me answer yes to
the first use question, and successfully saved the disclaimer), but then
instantly quits.  I've tried using the various debugging options, but still
zero output.

It obviously doesn't get as far as actually looking at the boot image and
attempting to boot.  Actually, it doesn't even print the familiar messages
showing CPU speed and all.  I'd start browsing through the code myself, but
I'm hoping that someone else has already encountered this problem.

Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks.

Michael Lee                             Assistant Professor
Columbia Union College                  Computer Science
7600 Flower Avenue                      mlee@cuc.edu
Takoma Park, MD  20912                  301-891-4136

Re: DosEmu in RedHat 7.2

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Michael Lee wrote:
> Has anyone had success using dosemu in redhat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18)?
Yes.
However, the kernel upgrade is recommended
as there was some dosemu-related work done
in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20.

> downloading the latest (1.0.2.1) dosemu from 
> sourceforge and compiling that.
No, 1.0.2.1 is nearly an year old and is
currently not supported (hopefully there
will be no support to it also in the
future, as supporting 1.0 branch in its
current state would be a nightmare and
porting all the fixes to it is nearly
impossible now).

> Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated
Upgrade your dosemu.

Re: DosEmu in RedHat 7.2

[Bart Oldeman]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Michael Lee wrote:

> Hi.  Has anyone had success using dosemu in redhat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18)?
>
> It obviously doesn't get as far as actually looking at the boot image and
> attempting to boot.  Actually, it doesn't even print the familiar messages
> showing CPU speed and all.  I'd start browsing through the code myself, but
> I'm hoping that someone else has already encountered this problem.
>
> Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated?

did you try downloading the binary tarball and dosemu-freedos from
www.dosemu.org and running that? At least the problem can then be narrowed
down.

Stas Sergeev suggested using a 1.1.x version. This might just work, for
various reasons.

Bart

Re: DosEmu in RedHat 7.2

[Bart Oldeman]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> > downloading the latest (1.0.2.1) dosemu from
> > sourceforge and compiling that.
> No, 1.0.2.1 is nearly an year old and is
> currently not supported (hopefully there
> will be no support to it also in the
> future, as supporting 1.0 branch in its
> current state would be a nightmare and
> porting all the fixes to it is nearly
> impossible now).

"unsupported" basically means "seems effectively unmaintained" here.

Neither 1.0.x nor 1.1.x are supported beyond volunteers having time
to look into problems. I support 1.0.x if somebody asks "how do I map a
drive to a Linux directory using DOSEMU 1.0.2.1" and I say "use lredir
like this". In that case I wouldn't say "upgrade first!".

The idea here is that if you have a problem (a DOSEMU bug, not just a
user's question or setup fault) with 1.0.x, it might have been fixed in
the 1.1.x development branch, but those problems have, so far, not been
fixed in the 1.0.x branch.

Bart