Queries / problems with dosemu1.4 bin

Queries / problems with dosemu1.4 bin

[Victor Warner]

I have installed dosemu-1.4.0-bin.tgz and dosemu-freedos-1.0-bin.tgz
using the instructions provided.
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosemu/dosemu-freedos-1.0-bin.tgz?download>

After starting (./dosemu), I get the following message:

"Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256
Enter the full shell command line:"

In order to boot I need to type "command.com /P /E:256"

I notice that C:\ is empty but D:\ contains command.com, autoexec.bat
etc and various subdirectories (bin, dosemu, gnu, etc).

The path is set to nothing.

I do not think this is quite what is intended. Is there an easy way to
fix this?

Below is the ~/.dosemu/boot.log in case it is of assistance.


Victor Warner.




Boot.log

CONF: config variable parser_version_3 set
CONF: config variable c_system set
CONF: Parsing built-in dosemu.conf file.
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: Parsing built-in global.conf file.
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used unset
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: mapping driver = 'auto'
debug flags: -a+cw
CONF: Disabling use of pentium timer
CONF: dosbanner on
CONF: timer freq=18, update=54925
CONF: CPU set to 586
CONF: JIT CPUEMU set to 0 for 586
CONF: 2048k bytes EMS memory
CONF: EMS-frame = 0xe400
CONF: DPMI-Server on (0x5000)
CONF: DPMI base addr = 0xffffffff
CONF: PM DOS API Translator on
CONF: No DJGPP NULL deref checks: off
CONF: dosemu running on X
CONF: x keycode keycode 2 mode13fact 2 gamma 100 font '' mgrab_key "Home"
CONF: time mode = 'bios'
SER: directory /var/lock namestub LCK.. binary No
MOUSE: no device specified, type 0 using internaldriver: yes,
emulate3buttons: no baudrate: 0
CONF: Keyboard-layout keyb-user
CONF: **** Warning: floppy /dev/fd0 not accessable, disabled
CONF: fastfloppy = 1
CONF: IPX support off
CONF(LPT0) f: (null)   c: lpr -l  t: 20  port: 0
CONF(LPT1) f: (null)   c: lpr -l -P lpt2  t: 20  port: 0
CONF: not allowing speaker port access
CONF: Packet Driver enabled.
device: /home/user/.dosemu/drives/c type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive C:
device: /home/user/.dosemu/drives/d type 4 h: -1  s: -1   t: -1 drive D:
CONF: cdrom MSCD0001 on /dev/cdrom
CONF: config variable c_system unset
Linux kernel 2.6.21; CPU speed is 900000000 Hz
CPU-EMU speed is 900 MHz
CONF: mostly running as USER: uid=1000 (cached 1000) gid=1000 (cached 1000)
DBG_FD already set
DOSEMU-1.4.0.0 is coming up on Linux version 2.6.21.4-eeepc
CONF: reserving 640Kb at 0x00000 for 'd' (Base DOS memory (first 640K))
CONF: reserving 48Kb at 0xF4000 for 'r' (Dosemu reserved area)
CPU: Stack bottom 0xbff44000, top 0xbff59000, esp=0xbff47ee0
CONF: reserving 128Kb at 0xA0000 for 'v' (Video memory)
CONF: reserving 8256Kb at 0x100000 for 'x' (Extended memory (HMA+XMS))
Registering HWRAM, type=e base=0xb6495000 size=0x400000
CONF: reserving 4096Kb at 0xB6495000 for 'e' (VGAEMU LFB)
CONF: reserving 12Kb at 0xC0000 for 'V' (VGAEMU Video BIOS)
SERIAL $Id: ser_init.c 1769 2007-05-04 05:59:48Z bartoldeman $
PKT: Cannot allocate TAP device (dynamic): No such file or directory
CONF: detected layout is "auto"
CONF: detected alternate layout: (null)
CONF: reserving 64Kb at 0xE4000 for 'E' (EMS page frame)
CONF: reserving 132Kb at 0xC3000 for 'U' (Upper Memory Block (UMB, XMS 3.0))
TIME: using 9154 usec for updating ALRM timer

Re: Queries / problems with dosemu1.4 bin

[Bart Oldeman]

On 27/03/2008, Victor Warner <vwarner@woroner.com> wrote:
> I have installed dosemu-1.4.0-bin.tgz and dosemu-freedos-1.0-bin.tgz
>  using the instructions provided.
>  <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosemu/dosemu-freedos-1.0-bin.tgz?download>
>
>  After starting (./dosemu), I get the following message:
>
>  "Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256
>  Enter the full shell command line:"
>
>  In order to boot I need to type "command.com /P /E:256"
>
>  I notice that C:\ is empty but D:\ contains command.com, autoexec.bat
>  etc and various subdirectories (bin, dosemu, gnu, etc).

I think what happened is that you had an older DOSEMU configuration
around which confused the script (which should have copied config.sys
to C:). Try to remove (and perhaps backup) your .dosemurc file and
.dosemu directories and try again.

Bart