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AUTHOR: Alex Kloss <alex@22-music.com> |
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DATE: 2003-09-19 |
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LICENSE: GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2 |
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SYNOPSIS: Setting up dosemu with freeDOS or any other DOS. |
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DESCRIPTION: |
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Sometimes you want to use the good old Disk Operating System, e.g. for |
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playing some real old games (like commander keen), but you don't want to |
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shutdown your linux box and don't have a DOS bootdisk anyway... |
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[ATTENTION: dosemu is discontinued in favour of dosbox (available on |
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http://dosbox.sourceforge.net) - but it's still faster in most cases!] |
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PREREQUISITES: |
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http://dosemu.sf.net - dosemu-1.2.0.tgz, most actual dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz |
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HINT: |
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./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-experimental \ |
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--with-fdtarball=<wherever you stored dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz> && |
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make && |
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make install |
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If the installation breaks due to not finding bdftopcf, just use "make |
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install" again. The error shouldn't occur on the 2nd try. |
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now try "dos" or "xdos". If xdos complains about not finding the necessary |
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fonts, you should edit either your etc/X11/XftConfig or /etc/fonts/fonts.conf |
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(if you're using the newest X-Server with xft) and add to the first lines |
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'dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"' in XftConfig or |
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'<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc</dir>' in fonts.conf |
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if you're not using xft, you will have to restart the x server to let the |
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changes take effect or use the commands: |
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xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc |
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xset fp rehash |
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and try to start dosemu again. |
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If you did not use the freedos image, you will have to set up your dos image |
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yourself: make a directory /usr/share/dosemu and copy the io.sys and the |
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msdos.sys of your dos to this directory. |
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A minor problem is that the src/plugin/commands dir does not contain all of |
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the dosemu stuff, for example the cdrom.sys driver is missing. You'll find |
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the tasm sources in /src/commands. Since you propably don't have tasm, you'll |
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have to find a way to 1. extract that driver from the binary distribution or |
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2. compile it without tasm using the gcc assembler: |
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cd src/commands && |
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for i in aspi cdrom ems emufs; do |
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as -o ${i}.sys < ${i}.S |
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done && |
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mkdir /usr/share/dosemu/dosemu && |
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cp *.sys /usr/share/dosemu/dosemu |
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You may now start "dosemu" or "xdosemu" and install your DOS software at will. |
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CHANGELOG: |
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[2002-01-18] |
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* Initial Hint. |
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[2003-09-09] |
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* Conversion to new hint format, some changes. |
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[2003-09-17] |
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* Small fixes in conversion. |
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[2003-10-07] |
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* Added gcc-2.95.3 stuff for LFS-5.x. |
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[2004-01-19] |
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* Updated to dosemu 1.2.0, gcc as instead of as86 and minor changes. |
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