Hi Larry, > That information would have been great to find on the Freedos.org site.
As said, it is unfortunately a bit confusing... But if you can make it a bit easier to read, it would be fine to put it on our homepage :-) This includes the hints about dosemu below, but you will have to try them first to check if they actually work :-). > Not being that familiar with you're packaging The packaging is very straightforward: If you unzip the "somethx.zip" in the c:/fdos directory, then you get the someth (-ing) tool installed, and if you do the same with "someths.zip" then you get the source code for the tool installed. The zips CAN also contain extra files such as batch scripts run at install / update / uninstall or text files describing package dependencies, but those are often so simple that you can ignore them and just unzip the files :-). See also: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdDependencies > In fact, I was following a limited suggestion from the Freedos.org site, > which only mentioned that one has to get past the formatting issue, but > didn't say how. That was about virtual machines I believe? As far as I remember, you have to keep the (possibly virtual) boot CDROM in the drive until DOS is installed. How you do that depends on your virtual machine brand... For dosemu, you can say in your ~/.dosemurc something as: $_cdrom = "/dev/cdrom" or: $_cdrom = "some.iso" ... but I do not know how to BOOT from cdrom there. You can add a virtual diskette by saying: $_vbootfloppy = "diskimage.bin +hd" $_floppy_a ="threeinch" You can boot from that diskette by saying: xdosemu -A ... as opposed to xdosemu -C which boots from C: You can add harddisks by saying: $_hdimage = "freedos fatimage.bin" ...which makes the freedos/ directory the C: drive and uses a diskimage (dosemu comes with tools to make them, special format?) as the second harddisk which contains the partition for the D: drive :-). All filenames referenced by .dosemurc are treated as "file in /etc/dosemu/ or /usr/lib/dosemu/ or ~/dosemu/" and I believe all 3 locations are checked when you run it. FreeDOS 1.0 comes with a special boot diskette image that can open the cdrom and then continue to install from there. If (quite possible) it cannot find the dosemu cdrom drive, simply put the ISO file at the DOS place c:/fdbootcd.iso then the boot diskette will use it - even if you have no cdrom drive at all :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
