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- NOTE ***************** DOSEMU now places errors to stderr ******************
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- use 'dos 2>debug' instead of 'dos >debug'.
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- I have now gone to keeping each of these releases separate by letters as in
- pre4d.tgz, pre4e.tgz, etc... There are also diffs to go between releases.
- Please not that pre4.tgz is actually pre4a.tgz in this case.
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- How to quickly get dosemu up and running:
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- 1) Make a DOS bootable disk:
- - Boot DOS
- - Format a: /S
- - Copy fdisk.exe to the diskette
- - Copy sys.com to the diskette
- 2) Make dosemu:
- - Modify the Makefile if you need special keyboard, etc
- - Do 'make clean'
- - Do 'make config'
- - Do 'make dep'
- - Do 'make install'
- - Copy an edited examples/config.dist to /etc/dosemu/config
- - Copy exitemu.com from the commands subdirectory to the
- diskette
- - Copy ./hdimage.dist (located in dosemu0.49pl4) to ./hdimage
- 3) Prepare DOSEMU:
- - From the dosemu0.49pl4 directory, type dos -A
- - From the a: drive do fdisk /mbr
- - From the a: drive do sys c:
- - type 'exitemu'
- 4) Go for it:
- - type dos -D-a
- - From here you are on your own. Please read the documentation
- in the doc subdirectory, and most of all ENJOY!!!!!
- 5) Something not right?:
- First read the FAQ for Q&A's, then if no luck ...
- Please run a session 'dos -D+a>debug' and send jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca
- me your debug (gzip|uuencoded if large), your /etc/dosemu/config
- file, and background on the system your running (video card, linux
- release, cpu size, memory).
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- Some notes from Tim Bird (Tim_R_Bird@Novell.COM) on lredir found
- in the commands subdir :
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- LREDIR allows you to redirect any drive, including one that is
- currently a physical drive, meaning that you can replace a drive with a
- redirected one. When you delete the redirection, the physical drive is
- again visible. I am currently using this so that the boot diskimage
- disappears, and is replaced by the mounted MSDOS file system in Linux,
- with the drive letter and root the same as when I just boot DOS.
- People who use LREDIR in this way should be careful when they use
- LREDIR in the autoexec, because COMMAND.COM will continue parsing
- the autoexec.bat from the redirected drive as the same file offset
- where it left off in the autoexec.bat on the physical drive. For
- this reason, it is safest to have the autoexec.bat on the
- redirected drive and the physical drive (diskimage) be the same.
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- Notes:
- - A mouse driver that works is mscmouse found on Simtel and the
- mirrors.(msdos/mouse/mouse701.zip)
- - Various reports have been received that showed DR.DOS is not up
- to 100% under emufs.sys. I'm thinking it's something invalid in
- the expected data area's used, but we have yet to track it down.
- If emufs.sys is not working correctly under DR.DOS for you, please
- send a debug into me after verifying that all's well when you do
- the same thing under MS.DOS. If MSDOS also exhibits the same the
- problems then I really want a debug output. Oh what the heck,
- send a debug output anyway :-).
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- Many thanks to all involved, including all those who submitted debug
- output for my viewing pleasure, keep it coming.
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- jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca
- James B. MacLean
- Department of Education
- Student Assistance Division
- 2021 Brunswick Street
- Halifax, N.S., Canada
- B3M 4B2
- (902) 424-8438
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