help with dosemu; getting very frustrated

[Gregory Nowak]

I here your frustration loud and clear. I did all I could, but my com ports don't work either. I sent out a plea for help to this list a while back, but nobody responded.

Since it sounds like you seem to have your own dos setup, you don't need any reference to freedos. Also, if you want to access programs like exitemu under your own dos, remember that $home/dosemu/freedos/dosemu/generic.com is what is responsible for all the commands specific to dosemu. In other words, exitemu.com and other commands like it are really symbolic links to generic.com. So, coppy generic.com to your dos drive that you use, and rename it as exitemu.com. The same procedure is true for any other dosemu specific commands. Hth.
Greg


On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:57:17PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I've tried this on two other lists so far and nobody seems to have answers for
> me; hope somebody here can help. As I have it at least partly up and running,
> I'd especially like input from anybody who got their serial ports to work.
> 
> First of all, let me clarify that I'm not running under X since I'm blind.
> I have made several attempts over the last few months to get dosemu up and
> running and, despite having read the accompanying docs ad infinitum ad nauseum I
> am still confused. If somebody could help me with this, even offlist if I'm
> sounding too beginnerish, I would really appreciate it.
> I don't want to use freedos; I want to use the dos-6.22 partition that i have on
> /dev/hda2.
> I've tried doing this several ways; my most recent, which I realize isn't
> totally accurate, was to put '/dev/hda2" under the hdimage entry in the
> dosemu.conf. This actually did get me some results as I was able to run wp5.1
> with this setup, but it had other problems. For one thing, this apparently
> bypassed the commands in /usr/lib/dosemu so I couldn't exit,  not having access
> to
> the exitemu command. Of course, one could copy those commands to /dev/hda2 ( I
> did)
> (/dos when mounted) but that made me wonder if I was also bypassing other
> important things by this setup. I'm also confused by the link to
> /var/lib/dosemu which contains freedos. Do I still want this stuff in
> /var/lib/dosemu to be there since i'm not using freedos. Also there's an
> autoexec.bat in the /var/lib/dosemu/freedos directory, but most of the commands
> there seem to relate to freedos. Are there any commands from that autoexec.bat
> that I need or extra ones that i need to put into my autoexec.bat in /dev/had2
> to have this run correctly?
> My second problem, which may or may not be caused simply by the fact that I
> don't have this set up correctly, is that I can't get my com ports to work. I do
> have the appropriate /dev indications in my /etc/dosemu.conf in the com lines,
> and if i try to copy something to   the versabraille I have on com2, I'm
> told the file was copied but com2, with my versabraille, is never actually
> being accessed. I know the actual connection works, because I can do this either
> from linux (to /dev/ttyS1) or DOS (to com2).
> This is getting me totally frustrated and obviously just reading
> the docs again isn't going to help me if I'm not understanding some key points.
> Help would be appreciated.
> TIA.
> 
> 
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