The dosemu HOWTO

edited by Mike Deisher, deisher@dspsun.eas.asu.edu

1. The preliminaries

• 1.1 What is dosemu, anyway?
• 1.2 What's the newest version of dosemu and where can I get it?
• 1.3 Where can I follow the development?
• 1.4 What documentation is available for dosemu?
• 1.5 How do I submit changes or additions to the HOWTO?
• 1.6 Message from Greg...

2. Compiling and installing dosemu

• 2.1 Where are the installation instructions?
• 2.2 Top ten problems while compiling and installing dosemu.
• 2.3 How can I build a single (non-library) executable?
• 2.4 How do I make ELF binaries?
• 2.5 How do I compile dosemu on a machine with low memory?
• 2.6 How can I speed up compilation?
• 2.7 How can I compile non-interactively?
• 2.8 More compilation tips from Marty...
• 2.9 Do I need to compile dosemu as root?
• 2.10 The makefile is in an infinite loop...

3. Hard disk setup

• 3.1 How do I use my hard disk with dosemu?
• 3.2 Can I use my stacked/double-spaced/super-stored disk?

4. Parallel ports, serial ports and mice

• 4.1 Where are the (microsoft compatible) mouse drivers?
• 4.2 Why doesn't the mouse driver work?
• 4.3 Why does dosemu clobber COM4?
• 4.4 How do I use dosemu over the serial ports?
• 4.5 How can I switch between dosemu and a shell over the serial line?
• 4.6 How can I get the parallel ports to work?

5. Multiple users and Non-interactive sessions

• 5.1 Can I use dosemu on a multi-user system?
• 5.2 How can I run dos commands non-interactively?

6. dosemu and Netware

• 6.1 How do I get Netware access from dosemu?
• 6.2 Netware HOWTO

7. dosemu and X-windows

• 7.1 Can I run dosemu in console mode while running X?
• 7.2 Is it possible to run dosemu in a window in X-windows?
• 7.3 Does ansi emulation work properly?

8. dosemu and MS-Windows 3.1

• 8.1 Is it possible to run MS-Windows 3.1 under dosemu?

9. Video and sound

• 9.1 Can I run 32-bit video games under dosemu?
• 9.2 Exiting from dosemu gives me a screen full of garbage.
• 9.3 How do I get dosemu to work with my Trident/Actix/other video card?
• 9.4 Why doesn't my soundcard software work with dosemu?

10. Other Hardware

• 10.1 How do I get my xxxxx device working under dosemu?

11. Problems and fixes

• 11.1 Dosemu crashed and now I can't type anything.
• 11.2 I've enabled EMS memory in dosemu.conf but it does not help.
• 11.3 How do I get rid of all those annoying "disk change" messages?
• 11.4 Why won't dosemu run a second time after exiting in console mode?
• 11.5 Why will dosemu run in a term but not in the console?
• 11.6 How can I speed up dosemu?
• 11.7 My CDROM drive has problems reading some files under dosemu.
• 11.8 How do I see debugging output?
• 11.9 Why are my keystrokes echoed ttwwiiccee??

12. Contributing to the dosemu project

• 12.1 Who is responsible for dosemu?
• 12.2 I want to help. Who should I contact?