More on the "Hoo Boy this is going to be interesting" front:
I've made a little progress with the previous problems, now realizing
that the system needs to be initialized.
I have (I think) copied the files necessary for system initialization to
a directory under ~/.dosemu and switched my dosemu.conf to point to this
directory for boot. I know this configuration is correct because it
behaves differently than when it is not present - namely the system does
not successfully load. This directory, unlike the stock one, is set up
for MS-DOS, not for FreeDOS.
The symptom manifests itself as an error message eventually leading to a
non-load of the system. Typing F8 during config.sys initialization
shows me the following as it steps through my config.sys
BREAK=OFF[Y,N]?Y
FILES=30[Y,N]?Y
BUFFERS=30[Y,N]?Y
STACKS=9,256[Y,N]?Y
DOS=HIGH,UMB[Y,N]?Y
LASTDRIVE=V[Y,N]?Y
SHELL=c:\dos\command.com c:\dos\ /E:1024 /P[Y,N]?Y
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS[Y,N]?Y
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE frame=none x=C000-C7FF x=E000-E7FF [Y,N]?Y
EMM386 not installed - protected mode software already running.
What does this mean? What protected mode software is already running?
Please forgive my noob questions but it's almost 20 years since I worked
with DOS or had to think about HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE and the like.
Steve Cohen
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