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Re: Dosemu lredir problem




On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:

> >> I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu.
> >> 
> >> I am using the dosemu package from hamm.  I have an msdos partition
> >> mounted on /dos.  In dosemu I type
> >> 
> >> lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos
> >> 
> >> And then get error 3c.  And I can't seem to find the meaning of the
> >> errors anywhere in the docs.
> >
> >I get this too.  I read somewhere that this is because I am booting
> >from a Free-DOS image, and not an MSDos image.
> 
> So does this mean, that I HAVE to get microslop dos, or something
> similar to lredir drives?  Would be slightly sad, since dosemu is a bit
> useless to me w/o the lredir functionality...

Yes, this is true. Lredir does only work with "real" dos, either from IBM
or Microsoft. Well, you can try to fix FDOS ;)

You can also give dosemu access to partitions or disks as whole, but you
are right that there are cases, where lredir is necessary.

Marcus



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