From: s4ucwg@fnma.COM (Chip Gregory) Subject: DOSEMU - new-user-type questions (LONG) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 19:35:56 GMT
I am running SLS 1.03 on a 386 33mh with a trident
8900c. I have a 125 mb hardrive configured as c:,
a 1.44 mb 3" as a:, and a 5" as b:. The hardrive is
partitioned as 32 mb DOS as hda1, 8mb swap as hda2,
and the rest as hda3 (ext2). I boot native DOS (5.0)
from c:. I boot linux from a:. I am NOT using LILO.
Notes/Questions:
1.) I first configured DOSEMU to run from an "hdimage"
file. I did not like having my DOS partition as drive D.
I then configured it to run from a "diskimage" file.
My disk image is drive A, I skipped my 3 inch, my 5 inch
is drive B, my DOS partition is drive C (EMU), and my
linux / is drive D (EMU).
Any way to boot DOSEMU and keep a: as a:, b: as b:, etc.?
2.) Quicken 6.0 fails when I start it up. I found that if
I start it as "q > q.msg" it comes up ok. Quicken wants to
remind me to do backups and this messages seems to cause
problems for DOSEMU. The Quicken graphs are close - with
the labels a little screwed up. I have NOT tried to work on
graphics parameters. I specified "trident and 1024" in the
config. I also got XMS to work and am loading everything high
(DOS, doskey, and mouse). EMS gave me an error "Can not set
line A20" or something like that.
Recommendation of XMS versus EMS?
Ideas on EMS error about line A20?
3.) DOS edit doesn't work. It comes up. I can type stuff
in the edit area, but when I pull down a menu, a get a DOSEMU
debug message "ERROR: InsKeyboard could not put key in buffer".
???
4.) Telix came up, initialized my modem, and I dialed myself
on the phone and properly registered a busy signal. After I
exited Telix, it seemed my keyboard buffer was screwed up.
Almost as if "local echo" stayed on - very strange.
Any ideas?
5.) Automap (a very detailed graphic depiction of the US with
roads, geographical highlights, etc.) worked well. It was very
slow, but everything seemed ok, including the mouse, (it must have
it's own mouse driver).
6.) I do not understand the mouse or the ports parameters. I
know the doc says that the mouse doesn't work. I tried the MS
mouse driver, and it could not find the mouse. I tried the Artec
driver, and it loaded, but I do not think it actually loaded
properly. I ran the Artec test program and screams came out of
the speaker but no mouse activity.
???
Thanks in advance,
- Chip