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

On Fri, 5 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > qemu -fda dos71.img
> >
> > It boots and gives us a prompt.
>
> OK, now that it is working you can use it to access
> your DOS partition (assuming you've got a DOS partition
> on that machine).

On all our machines.  This was my next question, how to access other 
partitions from qemu and vice versa.  I can access the regular DOS 
partitions from linux, but not linux from DOS (I can just copy over any 
files that I need).

> First, before starting qemu, mount your DOS partition
> at /hd.  Then start qemu like this:
> ---------------------------------
> qemu -fda dos71.img  -hdb fat:/hd
> ---------------------------------

-hdb presumably has nothing to do with where DOS is located (my DOS 
partitions are on hda).  Why 'b'?  Would a second DOS partition be hdc?

Does this let me access all the programs in that DOS partition?
Can I mount more than one DOS partition, for instance hda1 at /hd and hda2 
at /mnt ?  I have four DOS partitions (to make cluster size smaller I 
split up the 1GB drive into 4x256 with 4K or maybe 8K clusters).

> Assuming you've got the same version of DOS (7.1?)
> on both the FD and HD, you should be able to run
> things off the HD.  You'll probably want to change
> the PATH to the HD /DOS directory (can be done in
> FD autoexec.bat)

What would the PATH line look like?  If I mount things as above, is 'hdb' 
going to be the C: partition?  -fda is A:  Did you mean to write -hdc?

This sounds like a big improvement over dosemu, except that dosemu works 
with our CAD program and qemu does not, and dosemu does not require X.
It had some proble with the text editor that I need to check in qemu.
And I can't load Wordperfect directly.  Maybe 4DOS menu will work to start 
it instead of DC.

How do I exit qemu without exiting X?

> Cheers,
> Steven