Re: Standard instalation

["Alain M." <alainm@pobox.com>]

Hi Bart,

Bellow is a message we exchanged some time ago (just as a remainder), I 
just installed dosemu 1.4.0 stable (snv was down) from scratch (ne 
machine) and I am having a similar problem...

1) the link at /etc/dosemu/drives/c points do 
/usr/local/share/dosemu/drive_z and not frreedos which exists and is a 
link to that too. Everything is there, so it should just work...

2) when I run "dosemu" the first time (after renaming ~/.dosemu), there 
is not the little menu shown below, and I get dosemu running and 
complaining about command.com. In the ~/.dosemu/drive_c there is only 
config.sys, autoexec.bat and \temp\.

If I use an old ~/.dosemu everything woks fine.

Please help me get the install procedure right,

Alain
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Bart Oldeman escreveu:
> On 11/10/06, Alain M. <alainm@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Im am writing some procedures to install dosemu compiling from SVN. The
>> first run dialog has changed and I cannot figure how things *should* be:
>>
>> 1) I have a brand new intalation of Mandriva 2007
>> 2) I installed dosemu-freedos-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
>> 3) I downloaded SVN 2006nov11, compiled and installed dosemu
>>
>> Then I run "dosemu" and it cannot find freedos to create ~/.dosemu
> 
> what do you mean by this? What is the exact error message?
> 
>> and says:
>>
>> Sorry, there is no operating system rehe
>> /var/lib/dosemu/drives/*
>> Please try to install FreeDOS from dosemu-freedos-*-bin.tgz
> 
> What should happen:
> make sure that the dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz tarball is in the dosemu
> source directory when you do "make install", and that make install
> does not complain about its nonexistance.
> 
> After make install there should be a back-up symlink in
> /etc/dosemu/drives/c
> with
> /etc/dosemu/drives/c -> /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos
> where kernel.sys etc are in /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos
> 
> dosemu when you invoke it the first time, checks for the existence of
> ~/.dosemu/disclaimer.
> If this file does not exist, you should get a menu:
> 
> Please choose one of the following options:
> 1. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in ~/.dosemu/drive_c (recommended).
> 2. Use a read-only FreeDOS C: drive in /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos.
> 3. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in another directory.
> 4. Use a different DOS than the provided DOSEMU-FreeDOS.
> 5. Exit this menu (completely manual setup).
> [ENTER = the default option 1]
> 
> followed by the liability disclaimer.
> 
> The disclaimer and menu will change in the near future though (the
> default first time behaviour is going to be no menu, but a welcome
> screen, C: set to ~/.dosemu/drive_c, and Z: set to
> /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos) , but I'd still like to know what
> caused your different behaviour.
> 
> Please check the above symlinks and send the contents of 
> ~/.dosemu/boot.log.
> 
> 
> Bart