Hi, On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Alain Mouette <[email protected]> wrote: > my 2cents: > > I spent a lot of time with MicroCore Linux. It runs very well, and > probably would run Dosemu. BUT the problemis that it is not a *real* > Linux ditro in the sense that is does not install to a harddisk, it > rather boots every time as if it was from a cdrom. There are a few > tricks to include what you have bade into next boot, but it is complex > and not automatable... So I abandoned it...
Hmmm. I read similar but never tried (yet). There are installation instructions on the webpage, but again, it's not super simple and easy. PuppyLinux has .sfs files and optionally saves all your changes into a separate file, but of course it's a much bigger distro (130 MB nowadays). But it's easy to boot via "mini" Gujin via FreeDOS (I tried it once) if you put vmlinuz + initrd.gz on the FAT partition first. That's probably the easiest way (that I know of, so far) to run DOSEMU, but again, not ideal since it uses more RAM and disk than I'd like. (Heh, I'd rather not have to spend a year or two learning Linux >From Scratch [LFS] just to make a "lite" Linux just to boot DOSEMU w/ FreeDOS.) > As for using memory, there is no problem using more than 66Mb of ram in > Dosemu, it provides good memory drivers. Are you sure? IIRC, it starts out with only 20 MB DPMI available, which is too low for latest DJGPP w/ GCC 4.6.1. I ended up copying + editing ~/.dosemurc to increase to 64 MB (e.g. to rebuild Gautier's 3D Engine w/ GNAT). Beyond that amount I didn't test. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
