Re: dosemu help

[Michele Bini <mibin@tin.it>]

On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 01:43:03PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
> 
> I just installed dosemu on my system via Debian package (version
> 0.66.7-13).  I need to run a dos program, but I cannot even access the 
> partition through dosemu.
> 
> Thus far, I have tried the following:
> 
> - lredir, always fails.  Checking deja news, apparently the FreeDOS
>   does not support this?  I keep getting "Error 42 redirecting..."
> 

FreeDos doesn't seem to support lredir. You need to install
OpenDos, DR-Dos or M$-Dos if you want redirection

> - mkfatimage16, seg faults.  For instance, I tried 
>   "mkfatimage16 -p -f dos_img /the/directory/*" and it just gives me a 
>   Segmentation Fault.  Also, I tried _not_ using the -f switch, just
>   to see if mkfatimage16 gets anywhere, and, in fact, it does write
>   crud to the screen, but still seg faults after a bit.
> 

mkfatimage it seems to work for me
	mkfatimage -p dir/* >dos_image

> - /etc/dosemu/conf modification, doesn't appear to do anything.  I use 
>   /dev/sda1 as my Windows/DOS partition, so I tried adding the
>   following line to my dosemu configuration file:
>   disk { partition /dev/sda1 }
>   and nothing happens.  I assumed this would appear under the as the
>   next available drive letter, but I can't get to this data anywhere.
> 

No, it should appear as C:

-Michele