On 11/10/06, Alain M. <alainm@xxxxxxxxx> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
