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DISCUSSION Rich Shepard 1 participant 1 message Feb 25, 2003 1 message not in the archive

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An alternative approach is to create a large dosimage as per the instructions & sit this atop a linux partition which has ext3 protection & nowhere near as many problems with geometry of drives.

Progress, I think.

I made soft links from /var/lib/dosemu/bootdir.first/ to all the
directories in /dos7/. Then I modifed /etc/dosemu.conf so $_hdimage points to bootdir.first.

In the QuickStart doc file, it suggests inoking dosemu with 'dos -O
2>/tmp/error.out'. I tried that and nothing happened. I was back at the bash prompt once again. So I tried what worked before, 'dos -C' (for color). Once again, I saw this:

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Linux DOS emulator 1.0.0.0 $Date: 2000/03/05 $
Last configured at Sun Mar 5 21:50:56 MET 2000 on linux This is work in progress.
Please test against a recent version before reporting bugs and problems. Bugs, Patches & New Code to [email protected]

DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed

Nothing after this, so I pressed [Enter] and a non-stop race of:

ERROR: HLT requested: lina=0x5fbc!

kept scrolling by until I killed the process.

Can someone please explain this error to me, and suggest how to fix the
problem?

TIA,

Rich

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