Standard instalation

Standard instalation

[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 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

Re: Standard instalation

[Bart Oldeman]

On 11/10/06, Alain M. <alainm@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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

what do you mean by this? What is the exact error message?

> 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

Re: Standard instalation

[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!

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:
> On 11/10/06, Alain M. <alainm@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> what do you mean by this? What is the exact error message?
> 
>> 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

Re: Standard instalation

[Bart Oldeman]

On 11/14/06, Alain M. <alainm@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

> 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

Re: Standard instalation

[Alain M.]

Bart Oldeman escreveu:
> 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

Re: Standard instalation

[Alain M.]

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
---------------
Bart Oldeman escreveu:
> On 11/10/06, Alain M. <alainm@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> what do you mean by this? What is the exact error message?
> 
>> 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