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

mount /dev/hda1 /hd (my first DOS partition) 
make a disk image of dos 7.1 boot disk with himem.sys (dos71.img)

Go into X (Xvesa, 1024x768)
qemu -fda dos71.img -hda fat:/hd


It booted me to A: and I could change to C:

I typed wp (I have a batch file for it) and got the wp screen with the 
usual complain about some file not found (related to using this DOS)
and then:

Put "WordPerfect 2" disk back in drive and press any key.
Nothing happens when I press a key.

Why does it think I am running WP from a floppy disk?

Ctrl-Alt-F centers the WP window against a blank background without icewm 
(it now takes up about half the screen, I should have used 640).

I now see Press Ctrl-Alt to exit grab.  That also does nothing.

A small document viewer does work correctly.  So does 'list' command.
I don't seem to have the path set, this was a reduced-size boot floppy 
with space left to add wordperfect to it (before I knew it could be run 
from hard drive).

Pictview still display with some vertical stripes at the top and complains 
of not enough memory but 'mem' says I have 64MB.  Syschk says 128MB 
extended memory available, no XMM installed.  4DOS says I need an XMS 
manager to make a RAMdisk.  I will try a better boot image.

My partner's little text editor looks like it is working but after I save 
a file it is NOT THERE.

The CAD program is in /dev/hda3.  I tried to specify -hdc fat:/hd after 
mounting that drive and got a segfault.  -hda for that partition worked, 
sort of, but it tells me 'Booting from Hard Disk...' and that is the end.

-hda tries to boot from hard drive - is there a way to boot from C: on the 
hard drive instead of A:?

I tried to run the DOS CAD program and was told 'mouse driver not 
installed'.  The mouse driver is in /dev/hda1.  I mounted that to /mnt and 
/dev/hda3 is on /hd
-hdb fat:/mnt -hdc fat:/hd

This gives me C: and D: (which is usually E:).

Drmouse looks like it installs but then it adds:

c:\Line number:
The X mouse is still working.  How do I use a DOS mouse under qemu?

The CAD program now loads, but again appears with blue vertical streaks 
and no way to use the mouse in it (except to exit qemu).

I had the same problems running it all from A:

Ctrl-Alt-F puts the CAD program alone on the screen, with TWO mouse arrows 
and the same blue vertical stripes.  If i move the mouse, it changes to 
black on white (as our drawing appears, this is expected) with white 
vertical stripes and things somewhat shifted up down or sideways in spots.

-std-vga at boot did not fix this problem (instead of cirrus vga)

I typed Ctrl-Alt to make the mouse work and got Press Ctrl-Alt to exit 
grab and I still have two mouse cursors.  They won't go below the top half 
of the screen.

MS WORKS 3.0 for DOS loads properly.  I saved a file to default name 
WORD1.WPS and was told 'Cannot access file.  C:\WORKS\WORD1.WPS'.
I can Exit okay.

A database program loads properly but then 'cannot insert record to 
database'

Do I need to change permissions on /dev/hda1 so as to write to it?

HWINFO loads and seems to work but very slowly.  IRQ 11 is the only one 
detected (Ethernet PCI card for which I loaded linux driver).


Since I have no path I went into the WP51 directory and it loads okay.
THe keyboard is acting oddly, leaving out characters, maybe if I type too 
fast?  'can I type' became 'cani   p'.  Without the accelerator DOS 
programs supposedly run at 1/10 normal speed.  I would need to type very 
slowly or use a later kernel and the accelerator.

If I type slowly I still get double letters.  thhiss iiss nnoying

F8 for underline gave me a menu, F6 for bold gave me a series of . . . . .

I don't think the function keys are working properly in qemu.

F3 tells me to put back the Wordperfect 2 disk and press any key.
Nothing works now.

Time to give up? It was fun trying.  I think their DOS emulator needs a 
lot more work.

Would BOCHS do a better job of it?

I don't have any reason to run linux under qemu.

Sindi