Date:	Tue, 30 May 2000 19:49:50 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Prashant TR wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> > If you use dosemu or VMware, you need a copy of the operating system you
> > want to run. You still have a copy of autoexec.bat that runs. You set up
> > DJGPP exactly as you would normally. The operating system runs within
> > dosemu or VMware.
> 
> You don't really need a copy of it. I've been using DOSEmu since quite
> sometime. All you need to do is change the value of $_hdimage to
> something like $_hdimage="/dev/hda1 /dev/hda5" 

Please note that in the above instance, for doemu to acess those
drives,the partitions (/dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5) must *NOT* be mounted by
linux. So AFAIK you can't use linux to acesss the partions at the same
time as dosemu.

Also using Dosemu running FreeDOS to acesss directly a partion is like
playing russian roulette...you never know when that FreeDos bug might
cause disk corruption and you might have to kiss your partition
goodbye...That kind of configuration is far too risky IMHO..

FWIW I installed djgpp on a 98 MB disk image...but the file system gets
corrupted and other bad things happen quite frequently...so I decided that
a reboot do windoze was much better than running Dosemu and getting
corrupted FAT's..:(


>(of course, this depends
> on where you've installed DOS). So you really don't need to install DJGPP
> all over again. The performance I get is exactly the same I get under
> *real* DOS.

You may also be getting a lot more corrupted FAT systems than *real DOS*
produces...

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