dosemu?

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:22 PM +0200 Gilboa Davara 
<gilboada at netvision.net.il> wrote:

> I've been meaning to play around with dosemu once I have some free time.
> If it works, I'll let you know.

Just got it built and installed. I downloaded the 1.3.2 developer's 
snapshot tarball. This doesn't include a spec file or the FreeDOS tarball. 
You'll need to grab the latter from dosemu's directory on the ibiblio FTP 
site or from the 1.2.2 SRPM. You can create a spec file by unpacking 1.3.2 
to a temporary directory and running "make dosemu.spec". This runs 
configure to get the version number and then sed's it into dosemu.spec.in. 
Drop the resulting spec file in your SPECS directory, and the 1.3.2 tarball 
and FreeDOS tarball in your SOURCES directory, and package as usual.

>> Right. I was hoping I could install the FreeDOS boot files to my USB key
>> from dosemu. I can then boot the key with the vendor-supplied DOS flash
>> utility.
>
> OK.
> Didn't think about it.
> /me smack self on head.

Alas, now I'm stuck. I can redirect a Linux filesystem directory (eg. 
/media/KINGSTON) to a DOS drive letter with lredir, but I don't know how to 
mount a physical device (eg. /dev/sdb) to a drive letter so that the SYS 
command can get at the boot block. (BTW, the key is formatted in HD mode, 
not superfloppy. So /dev/sdb1 is mounted to /media/KINGSTON.)