High, On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> First of all, let me clarify that I'm not running under X since I'm blind. > I have made several attempts over the last few months to get dosemu up and > running and, despite having read the accompanying docs ad infinitum ad > nauseum I > am still confused. If somebody could help me with this, even offlist if I'm > sounding too beginnerish, I would really appreciate it. > I don't want to use freedos; I want to use the dos-6.22 partition that i have > on > /dev/hda2. > I've tried doing this several ways; my most recent, which I realize isn't > totally accurate, was to put '/dev/hda2" under the hdimage entry in the > dosemu.conf. This actually did get me some results as I was able to run wp5.1 > with this setup, but it had other problems. For one thing, this apparently > bypassed the commands in /usr/lib/dosemu so I couldn't exit not having access > to > the exitemu command. Of course, once could copy those commands to /dev/hda1 > (/dos when mounted) but that made me wonder if I was also bypassing other > important things by this setup. I'm also confused by the link to Nah, there are just a few dosemu commands to interact between dos and Linux. Just make a directory \EMU with all the commands and add C:\EMU to the default search path in autoexec.bat. And if you add the following lines to config.sys, you will be able to get access to your Linux partitions under DOS: C:\>type config.sys rem this sets up the redirector to look at the Linux root directory. rem this is probably not a good idea once you have dosemu installed device=c:\emu\emufs.sys / device=c:\emu\ems.sys ome/C:\>type config.sys > /var/lib/dosemu whic contains freedos. Do I still want this stuff in > /var/lib/dosemu to be there since i'm not using freedos. Also there's an > autoexec.bat in the /var/lib/dosemu/freedos directory, but most of the > commands > there seem to relate to freedos. Are there any commands from that autoexec.bat > that I need or extra ones that i need to put into my autoexec.bat in /dev/had2 > to have this run correctly? well, nothing actually. I must say that I simply have created a 'new' msdos6.22 image, just to execute simple dos commands (some companies are still ignorant). I have mounted my old windoze partition once, but I remember that I have never been able to configure it right to play games (tomb raider 1, for instance) or to run win98. But you can leave the freedos image mounted as the D: drive, until you are convinced that you do not need it anymore. > My second problem, which may or may not be caused simply by the fact that I > don't have this set up correctly, is that I can't get my com ports to work. I > do > have the appropriate /dev indications in my /etc/dosemu.conf in the com lines, > and if i try to copy something to a braille storage device I have on com2, I'm > told the file was copied but com2, with my storage device, is never actually > being accessed. Do you have read/write access to the /dev/ttyS* ports under Linux? # ls -l /dev/ttyS* crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Feb 27 2001 /dev/ttyS0 Try to add yourself to the group dialout: # adduser cheryl dialout and relogin as cheryl after that. I remember I got my mouse working once, but I did not need it under dos, so I did not pay more attention to it afterwards. > I really do usually try to figure out thing on my own with linux before > running > to a list, but this is getting me totally frustrated and obviously just > reading > the docs again isn't going to help me if I'm not understanding some key > points. > Help would be appreciated. Greetz, Sebastiaan > TIA. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
