I want to make a new hdimage file for DOSEMU 0.98.?? I want to make a 20MB file so I can get a full install of DOS6.22 but the image supplied is less than 2Mb!
A detailed list of commands I could use would be appreciated.
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by: gunnyPosted on 1999-05-14 at 10:11:55ID: 1627946
you can do this in various ways, here 2 simple examples:
1)
find out where your dosemu scripts were installed, very likely they will be in a subdirectory called "dexe" which can be found in the directory where your 2 mb hdimage is located (see /etc/dosemu.conf for the position of your hdimage).
change to this directory (could be /var/lib/dosemu/dexe),
and have a look at the "mkdexe" script. you could use it
to copy an allready existing partition into a file, getting an up and running dos-installation:
cd /var/lib/dosemu/dexe
./mkdexe ../new_hdimage -b /dev/hda1 -o noapp
this will create a file called new_hdimage under /var/lib/dosemu from your first ide partition (hda1) and should prompt you to edit the configuration files.
you will then have to edit /etc/dosemu.conf in order to change the hdimage to new_hdimage or whatever.
2)
you should be able to create a file as big as you'd like it by issuing "dd if=/dev/null of=/var/lib/dosemu/20mb_hd
put this file as the hdimage in your /etc/dosemu.conf, but set dosemu up to boot from drive A: so that you can boot from a bootdisk. then simply format drive C: and don't worry it won't be your real hd, but just the 20mb_hdimage file.
so do a "format c: /S" in order to copy the dos-system-files too.
after that change the /etc/dosemu.conf in order to boot out of the newly created hdimage!
notes:
- have a look at the README.txt that comes with dosemu (find it somewhere under /usr/doc/packages) or at the DOSEMU-HOWTO (/usr/doc/howto) they document everything if i made some mistake here
- you can use the "do_mtools" script out of the "dexe" directory in order to mount the image file as if it was a partition