maybe ot: dosemu question

[Gregory Nowak]

Thanks for the tips.
I actually already customized some stuff in dosemu.conf, and read README.TXT.
I have to say that I'm not finding freedos to be that grate.
So, it's good to hear that I can use something else
(I was thinking of pc-dos 7.0 which I have here and like the most out of all the different doses I've used).
Greg


On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:30:49AM -0500, Gene Collins wrote:
> Hello all.  You don't have to use the free DOS that comes with dosemu. 
> If you have DOS or Windows 95/98 installed on another partition, you can
> point dosemu at it in your /etc/dos/conf file.  You don't want to point
> to the raw partition however.  What you want to do is mount the
> partition, and create a symbolic link to the mount point in
> /var/lib/dosemu.  Then refer to the symbolic link in your /etc/dos/conf
> file.  Dosemu will happily boot whatever version of DOS it finds in the
> linked subdirectory.  You should still point to the original Free DOS
> image as a second drive for dosemu, since it contains some special
> dosemu commands, including the exitemu command, which you'll need to
> gracefully shutdown dosemu.  Other things you'll find of interest are a
> special mouse driver, and a special cdrom driver that will work with
> mscdex, just like the standard DOS cdrom drivers do.  If you intend to
> run the DOS part of Windows 95/98, be sure to edit your MSDOS.SYS file,
> and change the bootgui=1 to bootgui=0, so that you will boot without
> attempting to start the Windows part of the system.  DOSEMU does * NOT *
> support this.  When you boot outtside of linux, you'll have to type win,
> just like you did for Windows 3.1.  The other thing you should be aware
> of is that dosemu has its own built in himem and emm386 memory managers,
> so the ones provided by Microsoft aren't necessary, and won't work.  It
> is possible to change the extentions that dosemu will look for in the
> /etc/dos/conf file for autoexec.bat and config.sys.  I changed these to
> .emu, and made copies of autoexec.bat and config.sys, calling them
> autoexec.emu and config.emu.  I then customized these .emu files for
> dosemu, and left my standard autoexec.bat and config.sys files
> untouched, for normal booting outtside of Linux.  You really need to
> read the docs to pick up a lot of this information, but be warned, the
> docs aren't the easiest reading in the world.  But perhaps these tips
> will give you some ideas.
> 
> One other thing I should mention is that the /etc/dos/conf file contains
> parameters for specifying how much of extended and protected memory you
> want to make available to DOS.  Don't be greedy and allocate all your
> extended, expanded and protected memory to DOS, or you'll find yourself
> in trouble.  Leave Linux at least 16 meg for its own use.  The cool
> thing is that after you get things properly configured, you will be able
> to run DOS on a virtual console, just like any other Linux application. 
> The difference is that you'll have to use control-alt-<function-key> to
> get out of the dosemu session and on to another console.  The comments
> in /etc/dos/conf are your friend.  Read them carefully.  Make a backup
> copy of the file before you start editing.  You'll save yourself a lot
> of grieff!
> 
> Gene
> 
> >Sorry,
> >Please ignore.
> >I didn't realize that mscdex.exe and
> >the other commands I tryed didn't come with dosemu/freedos.
> >Even so, I can't imagine why typing theese commmands
> >would give me insufficient memory errors
> >instead just saying bad command or filename, or something 
> >like that.
> >Greg
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:05:43PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I know this maybe off topic.
> >> I'm trying to run a few programs under dosemu
> >> (one of them being mscdex), and keep getting a 
> >> insufficient memory message. What can I do to increase
> >> the amount of memory alocated to dosemu,
> >> or how else might I fix this problem?
> >> Thanks in advance for any help.
> >> Greg
> >> 
> >> 
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