Standard instalation
Im am writing some procedures to install dosemu compiling from SVN. The first run dialog has changed and I cannot figure how things *should* be:
1) I have a brand new intalation of Mandriva 2007
2) I installed dosemu-freedos-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
3) I downloaded SVN 2006nov11, compiled and installed dosemu
Then I run "dosemu" and it cannot find freedos to create ~/.dosemu and says:
Sorry, there is no operating system rehe /var/lib/dosemu/drives/*
Please try to install FreeDOS from dosemu-freedos-*-bin.tgz
The file dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz is at /usr/share/dosemu/
If I use my old ~/.dosemu directory it works, but I need to know how it *should* be for any new user...
Thanks,
Alain
Quoted 8 lines · Alain M.
Im am writing some procedures to install dosemu compiling from SVN. The first run dialog has changed and I cannot figure how things *should* be:
1) I have a brand new intalation of Mandriva 2007
2) I installed dosemu-freedos-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
3) I downloaded SVN 2006nov11, compiled and installed dosemuThen I run "dosemu" and it cannot find freedos to create ~/.dosemu
what do you mean by this? What is the exact error message?
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and says:
Sorry, there is no operating system rehe
/var/lib/dosemu/drives/*
Please try to install FreeDOS from dosemu-freedos-*-bin.tgz
What should happen:
make sure that the dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz tarball is in the dosemu source directory when you do "make install", and that make install does not complain about its nonexistance.
After make install there should be a back-up symlink in /etc/dosemu/drives/c
with/etc/dosemu/drives/c -> /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos where kernel.sys etc are in /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos
dosemu when you invoke it the first time, checks for the existence of ~/.dosemu/disclaimer.
If this file does not exist, you should get a menu:
Please choose one of the following options:
1. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in ~/.dosemu/drive_c (recommended).
2. Use a read-only FreeDOS C: drive in /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos.
3. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in another directory.
4. Use a different DOS than the provided DOSEMU-FreeDOS.
5. Exit this menu (completely manual setup).
[ENTER = the default option 1]
followed by the liability disclaimer.
The disclaimer and menu will change in the near future though (the default first time behaviour is going to be no menu, but a welcome screen, C: set to ~/.dosemu/drive_c, and Z: set to /usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos) , but I'd still like to know what caused your different behaviour.
Please check the above symlinks and send the contents of ~/.dosemu/boot.log.
Bart
Thanks, now it worked. The problem was that the message in "make install" complaining about dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz was not visible because the screen dafaults to 25 lines and it had rolled off. Then I missunderstood that everything was ok!
thanks, the explanation was very helpfull.
Ah!!! I just noticed another error, there are several lines:
/bin/bash: line 7: bdftopcf: command not found
and it was solved by installing bdftopcf. What *was* wrong is that it was not flagged by "./configure". Would you consider this a bug?
Alain
PS: using Mandriva 2007, kernel 2.6.17
Bart Oldeman escreveu:
Quoted 53 lines · Alain M.
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Im am writing some procedures to install dosemu compiling from SVN. The first run dialog has changed and I cannot figure how things *should* be:
1) I have a brand new intalation of Mandriva 2007
2) I installed dosemu-freedos-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
3) I downloaded SVN 2006nov11, compiled and installed dosemuThen I run "dosemu" and it cannot find freedos to create ~/.dosemu
what do you mean by this? What is the exact error message?
Quoted 5 lines
and says:
Sorry, there is no operating system rehe
/var/lib/dosemu/drives/*
Please try to install FreeDOS from dosemu-freedos-*-bin.tgzWhat should happen:
make sure that the dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz tarball is in the dosemu source directory when you do "make install", and that make install does not complain about its nonexistance.After make install there should be a back-up symlink in
/etc/dosemu/drives/c
with/etc/dosemu/drives/c->/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedoswhere kernel.sys etc are in/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedosdosemu when you invoke it the first time, checks for the existence of ~/.dosemu/disclaimer.
If this file does not exist, you should get a menu:Please choose one of the following options:
1. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in ~/.dosemu/drive_c (recommended).
2. Use a read-only FreeDOS C: drive in/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos.
3. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in another directory.
4. Use a different DOS than the provided DOSEMU-FreeDOS.
5. Exit this menu (completely manual setup).
[ENTER = the default option 1]followed by the liability disclaimer.
The disclaimer and menu will change in the near future though (the default first time behaviour is going to be no menu, but a welcome screen, C: set to ~/.dosemu/drive_c, and Z: set to
/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos) , but I'd still like to know what caused your different behaviour.Please check the above symlinks and send the contents of ~/.dosemu/boot.log.
Bart
Quoted 4 lines · Alain M.
Thanks, now it worked. The problem was that the message in "make install" complaining about dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz was not visible because the screen dafaults to 25 lines and it had rolled off. Then I missunderstood that everything was ok!
Right, I'll see what can be done about that.
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Ah!!! I just noticed another error, there are several lines:
/bin/bash: line 7: bdftopcf: command not found
and it was solved by installing bdftopcf. What *was* wrong is that it was not flagged by "./configure". Would you consider this a bug?
Yes. It was based on the assumption that it comes standard with X which is no longer the case. Similarly for mkfontdir. In Debian they are in an optional package called 'xfonts-utils' now, how about Mandriva?
Bart
Bart Oldeman escreveu:
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Yes. It was based on the assumption that it comes standard with X which is no longer the case. Similarly for mkfontdir. In Debian they are in an optional package called 'xfonts-utils' now, how about Mandriva?
mkfontdir worked ok, or it was already installed or if is part of the bdftopcf package, probably the first.
bdftopcf is part of the "main" package so it was easy to install... (Mandriva Free 2007 is a 4 CD set, so lots of things are in the main set)
Alain
Hi Bart,
Bellow is a message we exchanged some time ago (just as a remainder), I just installed dosemu 1.4.0 stable (snv was down) from scratch (ne machine) and I am having a similar problem...
1) the link at /etc/dosemu/drives/c points do /usr/local/share/dosemu/drive_z and not frreedos which exists and is a link to that too. Everything is there, so it should just work...
2) when I run "dosemu" the first time (after renaming ~/.dosemu), there is not the little menu shown below, and I get dosemu running and complaining about command.com. In the ~/.dosemu/drive_c there is only config.sys, autoexec.bat and \temp\.
If I use an old ~/.dosemu everything woks fine.
Please help me get the install procedure right,
Alain
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Bart Oldeman escreveu:
Quoted 53 lines · Alain M.
Quoted 8 lines
Im am writing some procedures to install dosemu compiling from SVN. The first run dialog has changed and I cannot figure how things *should* be:
1) I have a brand new intalation of Mandriva 2007
2) I installed dosemu-freedos-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
3) I downloaded SVN 2006nov11, compiled and installed dosemuThen I run "dosemu" and it cannot find freedos to create ~/.dosemu
what do you mean by this? What is the exact error message?
Quoted 5 lines
and says:
Sorry, there is no operating system rehe
/var/lib/dosemu/drives/*
Please try to install FreeDOS from dosemu-freedos-*-bin.tgzWhat should happen:
make sure that the dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz tarball is in the dosemu source directory when you do "make install", and that make install does not complain about its nonexistance.After make install there should be a back-up symlink in
/etc/dosemu/drives/c
with/etc/dosemu/drives/c->/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedoswhere kernel.sys etc are in/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedosdosemu when you invoke it the first time, checks for the existence of ~/.dosemu/disclaimer.
If this file does not exist, you should get a menu:Please choose one of the following options:
1. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in ~/.dosemu/drive_c (recommended).
2. Use a read-only FreeDOS C: drive in/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos.
3. Use a writable FreeDOS C: drive in another directory.
4. Use a different DOS than the provided DOSEMU-FreeDOS.
5. Exit this menu (completely manual setup).
[ENTER = the default option 1]followed by the liability disclaimer.
The disclaimer and menu will change in the near future though (the default first time behaviour is going to be no menu, but a welcome screen, C: set to ~/.dosemu/drive_c, and Z: set to
/usr/local/share/dosemu/freedos) , but I'd still like to know what caused your different behaviour.Please check the above symlinks and send the contents of ~/.dosemu/boot.log.
Bart