Re: dosemu?

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On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 16:22 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I was trying to figure out how to create a DOS-bootable USB key from Linux 
> (so I can flash a new BIOS in a system with no floppy) and discovered that 
> I can't find dosemu in any of the normal repositories, not even Livna. What 
> happened to it? I'm sure I'd had it RH7.2.
> 
> I grabbed the official dosemu SRPM but it's failing to build on x86_64 
> because it's trying to pass an invalid -mtune=x86_64 to gcc.
> 

Umm... First, I doubt that you'll be able to flash the BIOS from DOSEMU.
Being a user mode application, with no kernel support, I can't see how a
user-land application can access the BIOS.

Second, AFAIK DOSEMU doesn't build on x86-64, only on i386/i686.
Try passing --target=i686 instead.

Gilboa


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