MSDOS 6.22 running with/in Dosemu.
John Goley
I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu 1.0.2.1 running
with MSDOS 6.22.
How did you do it? I am very new to Linux and Dosemu and need all the help I
can get. <BG>
Trying version 1.0.2 with freedos on my new P4 1.7 ghz machine wouldn't work
at all. xdosemu said it was starting but would never give me a DOS box.
Never had this problem when I was using a AMD Athalon 1.2 ghz machine.
Anyway my main question is how to get MSDOS to work rather than use the
provided freedos.
Thanks for any help you could give me.
John
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Peter Jay Salzman
>
> I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu 1.0.2.1 running
> with MSDOS 6.22.
dos 4.x.
> How did you do it? I am very new to Linux and Dosemu and need all the help I
> can get. <BG>
>
> Trying version 1.0.2 with freedos on my new P4 1.7 ghz machine wouldn't work
> at all. xdosemu said it was starting but would never give me a DOS box.
> Never had this problem when I was using a AMD Athalon 1.2 ghz machine.
>
> Anyway my main question is how to get MSDOS to work rather than use the
> provided freedos.
>
> Thanks for any help you could give me.
well, i'm not edward and i don't know if this is the right way, but
here's what i did.
freedos was installed in /var/lib/dosemu/freedos, so i did:
mv /var/lib/dosemu/freedos /root/oldfreedos # keep a copy somewhere
mkdir /var/lib/dosemu/freedos
and put command.com, io.sys, msdos.sys, autoexec.bat, config.sys and all
the other DOS programs in /var/lib/dosemu/freedos. you can take them
all from windows if you want dos 6, or you can take them from a dos 5
floppy. your choice.
after awhile, i thought it was kind of goofy to have dos 5.0 in a
directory named "freedos". so in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf, i changed:
$_hdimage = "freedos dosgames cdrom"
to
$_hdimage = "dos dosgames cdrom"
and renamed /var/lib/dosemu/freedos to /var/lib/dosemu/dos. note that
the first directory in $_hdimage becomes your C: drive, and that's where
DOS should go.
so the short answer is: put whatever DOS you want to use in that
directory. MAKE SURE to not mix up files from different dos's. also,
the directories in $_hdimage are relative to $DOSEMU_LIB_DIR, defined in
/var/lib/dosemu/global.conf.
this may all sound complicated, but i assure you, i'm making it more
complicated than it should be.
pete
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Edward Mendelson
> with MSDOS 6.22.
I
> can get. <BG>
Hello John,
I've spelled out the method at this page:
http://www.wpdos.org/linux.html
The instructions (which focus on running WordPerfect under DOSEMU) are very
heavily dependent on the ones at DOSEMU.org, but addressed more to beginners
(beginners like me, that is). And, by the way, I couldn't get the DOS window
to start (just as you said in your message) on my Pentium until I followed
the steps that I listed on that page.
Any additions and corrections are very welcome. I'm completely new at this
too...!
Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson
>>>I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu 1.0.2.1 running
>>>with MSDOS 6.22.
>>>
>>windows' dos isn't the best one to use. you also want to stay away from
>>dos 4.x.
Actually, MSDOS 6.22 is the last of the NON-Windows 9x Microsoft DOS
versions. It's just as Windows-9x-free as MSDOS 5.0. The Windows 9x DOS
versions are 7.0, etc.
Justin Zygmont
http://solarflow.dyndns.org/pcplus. Basically you can just copy the dos
boot files to a directory and create a symlink to it.
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, John Goley wrote:
> Hi Edward Mendelson,
>
> I think I remember you saying on list that you go Dosemu 1.0.2.1 running
> with MSDOS 6.22.
>
> How did you do it? I am very new to Linux and Dosemu and need all the help I
> can get. <BG>
>
> Trying version 1.0.2 with freedos on my new P4 1.7 ghz machine wouldn't work
> at all. xdosemu said it was starting but would never give me a DOS box.
> Never had this problem when I was using a AMD Athalon 1.2 ghz machine.
>
> Anyway my main question is how to get MSDOS to work rather than use the
> provided freedos.
>
> Thanks for any help you could give me.
>
> John
John Goley
> There is some info on how to do that on my web page at
> http://solarflow.dyndns.org/pcplus. Basically you can just copy the dos
> boot files to a directory and create a symlink to it.
That is basicly what I did and got MS DOS 6.22 up and running. Then tried to
run my DOS boat design program and it loads but then freezes. I thought this
was a problem with MSDOS. So started over with FreeDos. FreeDos runs fine
with Dosemu 1.0.2.1 on my P4 1.7 but the boat program still only loads and
then crashes.
So it may be a problem with the P4 and the boat program conflicting in some
way.
I do remember trying WABI off your site but could never get it up and
running. I worked with Daniel Greenberg for a couple of weeks but could
never get it to work.
What I need is to get a Win31 CAD program to work with my DOS boat design
program and seem to be blocked at every turn. :^( Wine works with the CAD
program but will not let me access the DOS DXF files.
Ideally I think wabi could do the job if I could get help from you.
Thanks.
Justin Zygmont
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, John Goley wrote:
> Justin Wrote:
>
> > There is some info on how to do that on my web page at
> > http://solarflow.dyndns.org/pcplus. Basically you can just copy the dos
> > boot files to a directory and create a symlink to it.
>
> That is basicly what I did and got MS DOS 6.22 up and running. Then tried to
> run my DOS boat design program and it loads but then freezes. I thought this
> was a problem with MSDOS. So started over with FreeDos. FreeDos runs fine
> with Dosemu 1.0.2.1 on my P4 1.7 but the boat program still only loads and
> then crashes.
that's not what you said initially, if dosemu freezes when you start your
program then it is NOT likely a dos 6.22 problem. Also if dos 6.22
freezes for you then why should freedos work?
> So it may be a problem with the P4 and the boat program conflicting in some
> way.
>
> I do remember trying WABI off your site but could never get it up and
> running. I worked with Daniel Greenberg for a couple of weeks but could
> never get it to work.
>
> What I need is to get a Win31 CAD program to work with my DOS boat design
> program and seem to be blocked at every turn. :^( Wine works with the CAD
> program but will not let me access the DOS DXF files.
You probably need libc5. For running win31 programs wabi is the easiest
thing in the world to install and use.
John Goley
> If it doesn't use DPMI, you can upload it somewhere and give me a link to
it,
> so that we can try to solve your problem.
What is DPMI?