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From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP Install Problems (DOSemu/FreeDOS beta 8)
Date: 22 May 2002 12:25:12 GMT
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Tony Richardson (richardson AT evansville DOT edu) wrote:
: I'm just getting started with DJGPP (and DOSemu under Linux and
: FreeDOS), but I couldn't find an answer by searching the archives.

: When I try to install DJGPP using the lbinstdj program I get a bunch
: of
: errors about not being able to create directories and files.  When I
: look at the corresponding main directory created by the libinstdj
: program in the linux directory tree, I see that the directory has the
: following permissions

:   drw-rwxr-x    2 richards richards     4096 May 22 06:34 djgpp/

: I very much suspect that the no execute permission for user/owner on
: the directory is the problem (since I can't create directories or
: files under that directory from Linux either).

It most probably is.

: I am not using a DOS hard drive partition or an image file.  I don't
: have a DOS partition and DOSemu seems to be dropping support for image
: files in favor of redirecting the C drive to a linux directory tree. 
: I suspect this is part of the problem though.

: Has anyone run into this problem?  Have a fix?

It looks like a problem in dosemu.  Ask on their list.

Or perhaps your umask is too restrictive, but then you should get this
problem from mkdir in Linux too. 

Perhaps dosemu has some setting that prescribes certain permissions?


Right,

						MartinS

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