Re: dosemu without dos being installed?
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> Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed?
DOS does not have to be installed on the hard-drive for dosemu to be installed.
Some version of DOS must be available for dosemu to be able to "boot" thou
It does *not* have to be MS-DOS. I've been running DR-DOS for years under
dosemu. Caldera has OpenDOS (which is a descendant of DR-DOS via Novell DOS)
and there is a version called FreeDOS (fdos) that is included with the
latest versions of dosemu.
I've not worked with fdos much - I'm trying to cut down on my reliance on
*any* version of DOS - thou I have heard that lredir does not work with fdos.
That may have changed recently, I haven't checked.
The documentation that comes with dosemu has gotten much better in the past
few months, so I'd recommend that you install the latest dosemu*.deb and
spend an evening reading the docs - it will do wonders for your understanding
of how to get dosemu to boot.
As with any Linux/Debian package, there are many different ways in-which you
can configure dosemu. It can access a DOS file-system on a partition of
your hard-drive, it can access floppies, it can access floppy disk images,
it can access hard-drive images, and with lredir it can access directories
in the Linux file-system. All in all a very cool utility.
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> Alan Davis
> adavis@netpci.com
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Good Luck!
Chuck
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