Re: dosemu

[Shaya Potter <spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Miro Torrielli wrote:

> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > 
> > Try installing the xcompat package. It probably has the a.out library
> > dosemu is looking for.
> > 
> > Luck,
> > 
> > Dwarf
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> 
> Thanx for the info, I should have thought of it myself.
> However, I can't get dosemu to boot with the -A switch, and
> can't therefore install it. It always crashes giving me:
> ERROR: can't get floppy parameter in /dev/fd0.
> 
> My floppy drive usually works, and the boot disk is fine.
> Whats up??
> 
> Thanks for your time...
 
This seems to be a bug in the version of DOSEMU that has been packaged 
for debian.  The way to get around this is to edit the dosemu.conf file 
in /etc and replace
	floppy { device /dev/fd0 }
with
	floppy { file /var/lib/dosemu/diskimage } 
you will then take the floppy that has all the files you were supposed to 
put on it and run
	dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/var/lib/dosemu/diskimage }
you will then be able to boot off the image of drive A: and when ever you 
access drive A:, it will be the image file.

This is a workaround, not a fix.  However, this bug does seem to be fixed 
(at least on my system) in the development releases, which I am using on 
my system.

Hope this helps

Shaya
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Shaya Potter
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