Thanks for the tips. I actually already customized some stuff in dosemu.conf, and read README.TXT. I have to say that I'm not finding freedos to be that grate. So, it's good to hear that I can use something else (I was thinking of pc-dos 7.0 which I have here and like the most out of all the different doses I've used). Greg On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:30:49AM -0500, Gene Collins wrote: > Hello all. You don't have to use the free DOS that comes with dosemu. > If you have DOS or Windows 95/98 installed on another partition, you can > point dosemu at it in your /etc/dos/conf file. You don't want to point > to the raw partition however. What you want to do is mount the > partition, and create a symbolic link to the mount point in > /var/lib/dosemu. Then refer to the symbolic link in your /etc/dos/conf > file. Dosemu will happily boot whatever version of DOS it finds in the > linked subdirectory. You should still point to the original Free DOS > image as a second drive for dosemu, since it contains some special > dosemu commands, including the exitemu command, which you'll need to > gracefully shutdown dosemu. Other things you'll find of interest are a > special mouse driver, and a special cdrom driver that will work with > mscdex, just like the standard DOS cdrom drivers do. If you intend to > run the DOS part of Windows 95/98, be sure to edit your MSDOS.SYS file, > and change the bootgui=1 to bootgui=0, so that you will boot without > attempting to start the Windows part of the system. DOSEMU does * NOT * > support this. When you boot outtside of linux, you'll have to type win, > just like you did for Windows 3.1. The other thing you should be aware > of is that dosemu has its own built in himem and emm386 memory managers, > so the ones provided by Microsoft aren't necessary, and won't work. It > is possible to change the extentions that dosemu will look for in the > /etc/dos/conf file for autoexec.bat and config.sys. I changed these to > .emu, and made copies of autoexec.bat and config.sys, calling them > autoexec.emu and config.emu. I then customized these .emu files for > dosemu, and left my standard autoexec.bat and config.sys files > untouched, for normal booting outtside of Linux. You really need to > read the docs to pick up a lot of this information, but be warned, the > docs aren't the easiest reading in the world. But perhaps these tips > will give you some ideas. > > One other thing I should mention is that the /etc/dos/conf file contains > parameters for specifying how much of extended and protected memory you > want to make available to DOS. Don't be greedy and allocate all your > extended, expanded and protected memory to DOS, or you'll find yourself > in trouble. Leave Linux at least 16 meg for its own use. The cool > thing is that after you get things properly configured, you will be able > to run DOS on a virtual console, just like any other Linux application. > The difference is that you'll have to use control-alt-<function-key> to > get out of the dosemu session and on to another console. The comments > in /etc/dos/conf are your friend. Read them carefully. Make a backup > copy of the file before you start editing. You'll save yourself a lot > of grieff! > > Gene > > >Sorry, > >Please ignore. > >I didn't realize that mscdex.exe and > >the other commands I tryed didn't come with dosemu/freedos. > >Even so, I can't imagine why typing theese commmands > >would give me insufficient memory errors > >instead just saying bad command or filename, or something > >like that. > >Greg > > > > > >On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:05:43PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I know this maybe off topic. > >> I'm trying to run a few programs under dosemu > >> (one of them being mscdex), and keep getting a > >> insufficient memory message. What can I do to increase > >> the amount of memory alocated to dosemu, > >> or how else might I fix this problem? > >> Thanks in advance for any help. > >> Greg > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
