Hi, On Tuesday 27 May 2003 20:37, I wrote:
I installed dosemu, xdosemu and dosemu-freedos. That worked, I did a nostalgic EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT session.
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2. freedos. Look at freedos.org, it's promising, at actually runs. Freedos could be my dos of choice, *if only* I could access the linux filesystem from dos. But for now I can't say "L:" and go to my linux dirs; I'd have to use the mtools instead to move files between linux and dos.
As I don't have a DOS partition, I want to access my Linux filesystem, so this is where I stopped. I'll try again after downloading DRDOS.
Natalie
Good news! FreeDOS *can* access the Linux filesystem This is the DOS in a BOX screen: Linux DOS emulator 1.0.2.0 $Date: 2001/06/10 $ Last configured at Mon Jun 11 00:46:22 MEST 2001 on linux DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed DOS called with UMB,HIGH DOSEMU ? detected XMS driver at f800:0000 Kernel: allocated 6 Diskbuffers = 3156 Bytes in HMA [dosemu EMS 4.0 driver installed] HMA area successfully claimed FreeDOS Kernel compatibility 5.0 FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.24c (Build 2024c) [Jun 10 2001 22:25:01] D: = LINUX\FS/HOME/NAT attrib = READ/WRITE Welcome to dosemu 1.0.2.0! DOSEMU built-in command.com version 1.0 This is the README.bindist file: ==================================================== The DOSEMU/FreeDos ready-to-use binary distribution. ==================================================== INSTALL ------- The most easiest way to get DOSEMU working on your machine is to use the ready-to-use DOSEMU binary distribution. This one comes in 2 packages: - ftp://ftp.dosemu.org/dosemu/dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz A tarball containing a collection of suitable FreeDos binaries, eventually patched to fit DOSEMU needs, together with some GNU tools you may find usefull. - ftp://ftp.dosemu.org/dosemu/dosemu-<version>-bin.tgz A tarball containing the recent DOSEMU binaries together with a user local configuration setup. This installation fits into any user HOME directory and can be used and installed without root permissions. You have to unpack _both_ tarballs (as normal user, NOT as root) into the same directory (regardless what ever) within your HOME, such as: $ mkdir mydos $ cd mydos $ tar -zxf dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz $ tar -zxf dosemu-1.0.2-bin.tgz $ cd dosemu now look where you are and what was installed: $ pwd /home/joeuser/mydos/dosemu $ ls README.bindist bin dosemu xdosemu Xfonts conf freedos RUN --- After you got the install right you now can execute DOSEMU with $ cd ~mydos/dosemu # (your CWD _must_ be here) $ ./xdosemu which will use X or execute $ ./dosemu which will just start within the current terminal or console. If you never used DOSEMU before, you will get prompted (once) that you have read the liability disclaimer and after you agreed, DOSEMU will boot FreeDos and give you a command prompt. If for some reasons it does not start, look at boot.log for details. Remember, that you can't use <Ctrl>-C _within_ DOS to exit _from_ DOS. For this you need to execute 'exitemu' or, when using xdosemu, <Ctrl><Alt><PgDn>. If you want to have your Linux $HOME available as DOS drive D: type $ ./dosemu -home or $ ./xdosemu -home For DOS applications which only read/write from/to STDIN/STDOUT, you may prefer to invoke DOSEMU such as $ ./dosemu -dumb this has the advantage that (A) the output of the DOS application stacks up in your xterm scroll buffer and (B) you can redirect it to a file such as $ ./dosemu -dumb -E dir > listing Note that DOSEMU command.com's commandline editor/history will also work here, however, editing is restricted to BACKSPACE'ing. SOURCES ------- The sources of the here included GPL'ed binaries can befound at http://www.dosemu.org/ http://www.freedos.org/ http://freedos.sourceforge.net/download/ http://www.gnu.org/ Some applications are public domain with no sources published. POLICIES -------- All software herein can be distributed and used freely, most is GPL, other not GPL licenses can be found in the doc/* directories. -- Hans <lermen@fgan.de> 2001/06/10 ==================================================================== Without changing anything to the config file I ran Fractint, and ... ... everything seems to work perfectly: color cycling, color map editing, saving and reading images, running pars, loading color maps ... I have not yet added a sstools.ini, but I guess that will work as well. Good luck! Natalie -- Red Hat Linux 7.1 OOo 1.0.1 NL - OOo 1.0.2 EN aabdeehilptz aegilnt ;) Linux Counter: user 230952