I would like to install the newly-released FreeDOS 1.3 into dosemu2 (on Ubuntu 21.10, x86-64.) In fact, I would like to install *any* FreeDOS into it. :-) I have installed the package `install-freedos` but it does not do what it says -- in fact, it does not do anything. I think it installs some scripts and the user must run them. The entirety of the package description is: « A set of scripts to install freedos. Also provides a set of bat files for dosemu2 integration. » It does not tell me what the scripts are, or where they are located, or what to run, or what parameters are needed. There's no `man` page. I can't find any info at all on the web, and there's no info on Github: https://github.com/dosemu2/install-freedos So, I have been trying to work it out for myself, but so far, without success. I would be very happy to write some README files for you, maybe even a HOWTO or something, if I could work out what to do. Looking at the package properties, I can see the following list of files: « /. /usr /usr/libexec /usr/libexec/dosemu /usr/libexec/dosemu/dosemu-downloaddos /usr/libexec/dosemu/dosemu-installfreedosuserspace /usr/libexec/dosemu/dosemu-setupfreedos /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/install-freedos /usr/share/doc/install-freedos/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/install-freedos/copyright /usr/share/dosemu2-extras /usr/share/dosemu2-extras/bat /usr/share/dosemu2-extras/bat/dosrc.d /usr/share/dosemu2-extras/bat/dosrc.d/1sugfdus.bat /usr/share/dosemu2-extras/bat/dosrc.d/bin2path.bat /usr/share/dosemu2-extras/bat/insfdusr.bat /usr/share/dosemu2-extras/bat/rmfdusr.bat » There's no usage message if the batch files are invoked without parameters. That would help! I was reasonably skilled with DOS batch files 30 years ago, so if I can work this out, I can add that for you. So, I tried `-?` which got me an informative error. Then I tried `-h` and that got me some info. Next I tried: root@lproven:/usr/libexec/dosemu# ./dosemu-downloaddos freedos12 This downloads 9 files, then fails with this error: « Downloading https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/base/command.zip... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/libexec/dosemu/./dosemu-downloaddos", line 205, in <module> download_dos(dos_to_download, destination) File "/usr/libexec/dosemu/./dosemu-downloaddos", line 170, in download_dos download_FREEDOS_FULL_ARCHIVES(FREEDOS12_URL, destination) File "/usr/libexec/dosemu/./dosemu-downloaddos", line 117, in download_FREEDOS_FULL_ARCHIVES download_file(freedos_url + '/repos/base/' + filename + '.zip', destination) File "/usr/libexec/dosemu/./dosemu-downloaddos", line 57, in download_file with urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.parse.quote_plus(source, "\./_-:")) as response, open(destination_file, 'wb') as f: File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 214, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 523, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 632, in http_response response = self.parent.error( File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 561, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 494, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 641, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found » I have looked in http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/base/ ... and it is true, there is no COMMAND.ZIP. I don't know Python to any useful level, so fixing this script is beyond me. Is there any other way I can proceed? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@xxxxxxxxx ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven@xxxxxxxxx Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
