From: whandke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wieland Handke) Subject: Starting .EXE files from mounted hard drive under DOS-Emulator Date: 14 Jun 1993 06:30:20 GMT
Hello Linuxers,
some days ago I installed Linus the first time on my IBM 386. Since I
used this system for the first time I like it very much. But I have
a question about including my ordinary DOS-drive into the filesystem
when calling the DOS-emulator. I configured my harddrive the following
way: hda1: primary DOS-partition 16 Bit-FAT (maybe this is the problem?)
32 MB
hda2: extended DOS-partition (divided into logical partitions ...)
84 MB
hda5: 16 MB Linux filesystem (main system)
hda6: 60 MB Linux filesystem (mounted on /root/usr)
hda7: 8 MB Linux swap memory
I already successfully tested to mount hda1 on /usr/tmp. In the next step
I started dosemu. After mounting hda1 on /usr/dos and then calling Linux.exe
appiered hda1 as drive D:, but my problem is, that dosemu was crashed everytime
when I tried to start any simple EXE from drive D: in this way. Does anyone have
an idea how to manage this problem?
I don't want to give up my primary DOS-partition, because sometimes I'd
like to boot DOS alone for using some MS-loss utilities (programming languages etc.).
At the time I'm not yet available in any mailbox, a friend of mine will
be so kindly to give my question into the network.
I'm forward looking to your helpful answers.
Many thanks from Peter Tronicke.
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