install-freedos-master

install-freedos-master

[Jude DaShiell]

where should everything be living for dosemu-setupfreedos to work?
I have freedos12 on the system and dosemu-setupfreedos doesn't find it. 
Also when inside dosemu where does dosemu find its batch files?

Re: install-freedos-master

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

The intention is that `make install` or `sudo make install` puts all 
files in the correct spot. By default that would be in 
/usr/local/libexec/dosemu.

dosemu-setupfreedos is called from dosemu-installfreedosuserspace which 
in turn is called from insfdusr.bat which is installed in 
/usr/local/share/dosemu2-extras/bat. The default configuration mounts 
that to f: and puts it in the path, also a message is printed that this 
command can be executed when all is in place.

dosemu-installfreedosuserspace will first trigger dosemu-downloaddos 
that downloads the set of zip files (you observed that it failed 
previously), those are put in a directory below ~/.cache/dosemu. Then it 
will call dosemu-setupfreedos which unpacks those zip files and creates 
a structure representing how FreeDOS was provided for dosemu 1.

You can call the individual scripts manually too, provide the -h 
argument to get info on how they work. Note that this is not typically 
needed. For instance the downloading is not repeated in case that was 
done previously.

I appreciate you're looking into this and are providing feedback. 
Thanks! Some of the design/structure is sub-optimal and will also be 
revisited over time.

Op 11-04-2021 om 12:55 schreef Jude DaShiell:
> where should everything be living for dosemu-setupfreedos to work?
> I have freedos12 on the system and dosemu-setupfreedos doesn't find it. 
> Also when inside dosemu where does dosemu find its batch files?
> 

Re: install-freedos-master

[Jude DaShiell]

Okay, let's try this again.  I'll let you know what happens as soon as I 
find it out.


On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:

> The intention is that `make install` or `sudo make install` puts all files in 
> the correct spot. By default that would be in /usr/local/libexec/dosemu.
>
> dosemu-setupfreedos is called from dosemu-installfreedosuserspace which in 
> turn is called from insfdusr.bat which is installed in 
> /usr/local/share/dosemu2-extras/bat. The default configuration mounts that to 
> f: and puts it in the path, also a message is printed that this command can 
> be executed when all is in place.
>
> dosemu-installfreedosuserspace will first trigger dosemu-downloaddos that 
> downloads the set of zip files (you observed that it failed previously), 
> those are put in a directory below ~/.cache/dosemu. Then it will call 
> dosemu-setupfreedos which unpacks those zip files and creates a structure 
> representing how FreeDOS was provided for dosemu 1.
>
> You can call the individual scripts manually too, provide the -h argument to 
> get info on how they work. Note that this is not typically needed. For 
> instance the downloading is not repeated in case that was done previously.
>
> I appreciate you're looking into this and are providing feedback. Thanks! 
> Some of the design/structure is sub-optimal and will also be revisited over 
> time.
>
> Op 11-04-2021 om 12:55 schreef Jude DaShiell:
>>  where should everything be living for dosemu-setupfreedos to work?
>>  I have freedos12 on the system and dosemu-setupfreedos doesn't find it.
>>  Also when inside dosemu where does dosemu find its batch files?
>> 
>
>