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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Running it under X gives the exact same results in an rxvt instead.
> > David said this would let me use Alt-F1 etc in WP51/DOS.
>
> Does Alt-Fx work in xdosemu?
>
> > WHen I installed qemu package I deleted most of what is in /usr/local/bin
> > except qemu,
>
> Necessary for PC emulation.

These files all had things like sparc or ppc in their names.
I left everything else, in /usr/share

> > qemu-i386
>
> Not very useful if you are running it on ix86 Linux.
>
> > and qemu-img.
>
> Unnecessary if you use dd to make all of your image files.

Since I don't want to to emulate a Mac or a Sparc, do I need the other 
files in /bin?


> > This leaves /usr/local/share/qemu/*.bin - what are these files for?
>
> BIOS and related files. Several are necessary for using qemu.
I left them there.

> > Do I need ppc_rom.bin, the largest?
>
> No, since you already deleted the ppc qemu.

Do I need the ppc qemu if I only want to emulate DOS?
Is there anything else in share I can delete if I only use DOS under qemu?

> David