From: richardson AT evansville DOT edu (Tony Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP Install Problems (DOSemu/FreeDOS beta 8) Date: 22 May 2002 12:25:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 42 Message-ID: <2f64dfca.0205221125.7fbe18d1@posting.google.com> References: <2f64dfca DOT 0205220347 DOT 19c11bad AT posting DOT google DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.195.226.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1022095520 32387 127.0.0.1 (22 May 2002 19:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 May 2002 19:25:20 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) wrote: > Tony Richardson (richardson AT evansville DOT edu) wrote: > : 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). > > It most probably is. > > : 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? > > It looks like a problem in dosemu. Ask on their list. I'll try. It's strange though, I can create directories under dosemu with no problems and I've installed other software without a hitch too. > Or perhaps your umask is too restrictive, but then you should get this > problem from mkdir in Linux too. umask = 002 (RedHat User Group settings) > Perhaps dosemu has some setting that prescribes certain permissions? I couldn't find anything. Thanks though. I'll try the DOSemu group. Tony Richardson