Hello John,
I've no idea which file is used for booting. I've yet to actually use
dosemu2.
>Writing to the access drive usually crashes QEMU.
I can imagine that perchance, you could use the mtools package on your
Linux hypervisor to read and write directly from the FAT filesystem. If
you can mount the qcow2 file with qemu-nbd in a way that will allow your
FreeDOS VM to use that file, then it's down to the actual FAT filesystem
not getting borked when both FreeDOS and mtools want to read and write
in it. If that fails, there's still network filesystems that work on
FreeDOS.
Best of luck!
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 9.03.2025 o 13:36, hms--- via Freedos-user pisze:
Hi there
I have recently installed dosemu2 and and have a couple of questions.
I read that; quote:- "The autoexec.bat used by default for dosemu is
/usr/share/dosemu/dosemu2-cmds-0.2/fdppauto.bat . You can edit it by
opening it with 'sudo gedit [filename]'
in the terminal but you shouldn't need to."
In the current version I have installed, the directory is
dosemu2-cmds-0.3.
Editing fdppauto.bat appears to make no difference at all. I do not
require sound or CDROM support.
Does anyone know which file is used for booting?
Second question. Drives D, E and F are created on installation.
Attempting to write to files on these drives results in an error
message of "Access Denied" being issued.
I have been using QEMU and FreeDos up to now. There are several
drawbacks compared with dosemu2. Copying a large number of files to
the image and retaining file timestamps is a problem. I achieve this
by first copying to the access drive, then starting FreeDos in QEMU
and then using XCOPY to transfer files to the C: Drive (image). This
takes considerable time. I have had little to no success exporting
files. Writing to the access drive usually crashes QEMU. And finally,
FreeDos under QEMU is slightly slower than dosemu2. The stability of
dosemu2 remains to be seen.
John
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