[102483] in RedHat Linux List
Re: dosemu deaths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Kleber)
Thu Dec 3 11:05:59 1998
From: Michael Kleber <kleber@math.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:38:56 -0500 (EST)
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Well, I played more and am alsmost ready to give up on dosemu.
Jeff Hogg suggested:
> Another, maybe simpler idea, is to go get the 0.98 version of dosemu, its at
> http://www.dosemu.org It set up much more easily, and ran better for me.
Ah, clever idea! (Why didn't I think of that? I forget how out of
date the Linux distribution is sometimes.) I tried it, and now I get
lredir e: linux\fs\mnt/windows
Error 5f00 redirecting drive E: to LINUX\FS\MNT/WINDOWS
I can't find any docs on what an error 5f00 is; maybe I'm just not
looking in the right place. Certainly more informative than crashing,
though! Once again, I get the same thing no matter which type of / or \
I use for delimeters, and whether I'm trying to mount /tmp or a
linux-mounded windows partition.
But with 0.98 I've played some more with things -- it comes set up
with a config.sys that maps one drive to a .../dosC directory on the
linux disk -- and I'm now convinced that there are deep, fundamental
problems here, not just superficial ones. (I type "dir" twice in a
row in that re-mapped directory and the second time I get bogus files
appearing with garbage names and sizes; neither time do I see all the
things in .../dosC. Clear memory problems, I think.)
Also, John P Walker said:
> ...I had the same problem. The only way I found to get dosemu to boot
> was to set it up to boot directly off my dos partition instead of the
> hdimage.
Hmm -- doesn't sound like the same problem, since I can boot from the
hdimage but *not* from the partition itself!
Anyway, I've also convinced myself that the excellent PC port of
Q*Bert ( http://www.jrok.com/pcbert.html ) won't run under dosemu, in
which case I might as well just reboot to windows anyway. :-)
--Michael Kleber
kleber@math.mit.edu
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