From: richardson AT evansville DOT edu (Tony Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: DJGPP Install Problems (DOSemu/FreeDOS beta 8)
Date: 22 May 2002 04:47:29 -0700
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I'm just getting started with DJGPP (and DOSemu under Linux and
FreeDOS), but I couldn't find an answer by searching the archives.

When I try to install DJGPP using the lbinstdj program I get a bunch
of
errors about not being able to create directories and files.  When I
look at the corresponding main directory created by the libinstdj
program in the linux directory tree, I see that the directory has the
following permissions

  drw-rwxr-x    2 richards richards     4096 May 22 06:34 djgpp/

I very much suspect that the no execute permission for user/owner on
the directory is the problem (since I can't create directories or
files under that directory from Linux either).

I am not using a DOS hard drive partition or an image file.  I don't
have a DOS partition and DOSemu seems to be dropping support for image
files in favor of redirecting the C drive to a linux directory tree. 
I suspect this is part of the problem though.

Has anyone run into this problem?  Have a fix?

Thanks,
Tony Richardson