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DISCUSSION Stas Sergeev 3 participants 3 messages Sep 26, 2002

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Hello.

Quoted 2 lines · Guennadi Liakhovetski

echo bla > COM1
I see nothing in the minicom...

You'd better use some terminal program rather than a simple echo. Anyway, do you have a $_com1 and $_com2 options set correctly in your dosemu.conf?

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What else am I doing wrong
and how do I actually configure UART parameters under DOS(EMU)?

No need in general. Dosemu have the UART init code stolen from minicom, which works.

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Wait a minute - isn't FreeDOS __necessary__ for running dosemu?

No. Any DOS will do or even some other OSes like elks (embedded linux) are fine under dosemu.

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it is (dosemu requested /var/lib/freedos, and only worked,

Check the $_hdimage option of dosemu.conf.

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To: "Will Styles" <[email protected]>

Hmm, this e-mail looks very suspicious...

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You'd better use some terminal program rather than a simple echo. Anyway, do you have a $_com1 and $_com2 options set correctly in your dosemu.conf?

Yep, works now.

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What else am I doing wrong
and how do I actually configure UART parameters under DOS(EMU)?

No need in general. Dosemu have the UART init code stolen from minicom, which works.

Yeah, and to change the baudrate, etc.? No idea how one does it under DOS... Only with a terminal program?

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Wait a minute - isn't FreeDOS __necessary__ for running dosemu?

No. Any DOS will do or even some other OSes like elks (embedded linux) are fine under dosemu.

Ough, I seem to have had a totally wrong understanding of what dosemu was... Ok, I've found thr right doc to read, that explains it (doc/dosemu-HOWTO.txt - not a self-evident name for a primary explanatory document:-))

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it is (dosemu requested /var/lib/freedos, and only worked,

Check the $_hdimage option of dosemu.conf.

Well, what I still don't quite understand, is what are the exact steps after compilation - to copy all the required stuff in a dosemu root-dir, where you'll later unpack FreeDOS or whatever... The reply, that got me going did help a lot - but still, I had to guess a few things... And I am not sure if all my guesses were right.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Pascalstr. 28
D-52076 Aachen
Germany

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Quoted 5 lines · Guennadi Liakhovetski

Well, what I still don't quite understand, is what are the exact steps after compilation - to copy all the required stuff in a dosemu root-dir, where you'll later unpack FreeDOS or whatever... The reply, that got me going did help a lot - but still, I had to guess a few things... And I am not sure if all my guesses were right.

The way that make install tries to explain (at least that's how I understood it from Hans Lermen) is that you first download a binary dosemu (1.0.2.1, that is) and freedos, unpack it into your home directory and get that running. Then if you want to compile dosemu from source, after compilation you just copy your dosemu.bin and dosdebug to ~/dosemu/bin and your global.conf to ~/dosemu/conf.

I would like to get 'make install' working again, but I'll need to be careful where to put files.

Another strategy now is to use the install_systemwide script, which was really aimed at distributors, but then some major distro's don't ship dosemu anymore.

You might want to check out
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5955
for a strategy that uses install_systemwide.

Bart