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@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
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