[ale] Dosemu help requested

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I don't have Quake, but I was able to dig up a copy of an old favorite, 
WarCraft II.  I downloaded and installed Dosemu v1.2.2 and freedos (on 
my machine at home).  Then, I modified autoexec.bat so that e:\ was 
pointed at /dev/cdrom, mounted the WarCraftII CD, and started xdosemu 
(it didn't seem to work in regular dosemu).  Anyway, the install took 
about 15 seconds, and I was ready to setup my sound card. Surprisingly 
enough, it worked right off the bat, and now I'm playing WarCraft II in 
one window, IM'ming in another window, and surfing in yet another.  Hope 
this helps.

Nathan J. Underwood
Cyber Tech Cafe' <><
http://www.cybertechcafe.net


Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Jim,
> 
>     It sounds like you're trying to install before you get into dosemu, 
> rather than starting dosemu, and then installing.  You may also need to 
> setup a redirect to your CD-ROM (/dev/cdrom) do d:\ (you can do this via 
> your dosemu/autoexec.bat file I believe).  I untarred / installed dosemu 
> in /usr/local (i.e. /usr/local/dosemu), and the users who need it have a 
> symlink to it in their ~/bin directories (and dosemu starts from their 
> .bash_profile, so they have no idea it's not their DOS box anymore B-), 
> but that's another post).  Anyway, here's what I'd do:
> 
>  - It sounds like you've got dosemu installed, but to be complete, 
> install dosemu (skip this if you already have)
>  - Modify my autoexec.bat (for me, it's in /usr/local/dosemu/freedos) to 
> include a link to /dev/cdrom as d:\
>  - Insert and mount your Doom CD in the CD ROM
>  - start dosemu (after the brief little disclaimer, should dump you at a 
> c:\ prompt)
>  - run the install.bat script
>  - If it still says that directories don't exist, see if you can see 
> which ones, and create them (in dosemu).  Also, make sure that your 
> userid has permissions to create directories in your dosemu directory 
> (so that the files can be installed).  Since I've never done it, I can't 
> guarantee that it'll work, but this will hopefully get you started.  In 
> the meantime, I'm looking around for an MS DOS game that I can install 
> on a *nix box via dosemu just for the heck of it B-).
> 
> Nathan J. Underwood
> Cyber Tech Cafe' <><
> http://www.cybertechcafe.net
> 
> 
> Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:28:59PM -0400, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using dosemu for an application, but haven't had any trouble with 
>>> it.  The directory that the version of dos (I'm using the stock 
>>> freedos, but got it to work with MS DOS 6.2 also) is in is generally 
>>> your c:\ drive.  What does the prompt that you're trying to install 
>>> Quake under look like (i.e. is it still a $ or # prompt, or is it a 
>>> c:\ prompt)?  If it's not the latter, have you typed 'dosemu' to 
>>> start the emulator (I know that this may seem obvious, and don't mean 
>>> to offend, but just want to be certain).
>>> -- 
>>
>>
>>
>> No offense taken Nathan. Basically I type "dosemu install.bat" while in
>> the install directory of the cd. It asks me what drive to install to and
>> I type C. It then asks about the directory for the doom install. When I
>> respond to that it tells me "More than one of those directories doesn't
>> exist!" It then asks me to reenter the directory and nothing I've tried
>> works.
>>
>> If I start dosemu without any other parameters it gives me a promt like:
>>
>> C:\>
>>
>> when it loads. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim Seymour
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