diff --git a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf
index 80ba05e83..84d28afe1 100644
--- a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf
+++ b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.conf
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ GCC_WRAPPER_INSERT=""
 GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND=""
 GCC_WRAPPER_REMOVE="-m*"
 
-hook_add preconf 5 'bzcat $archdir/dosemu-freedos-b9r4-bin.tbz2 | gzip > dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz'
+hook_add preconf 5 'bzcat $archdir/dosemu-freedos-b9r5-bin.tbz2 | gzip > dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz'
 
-var_append confopt ' ' '--with-fdtarball=dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz'
+var_append confopt ' ' "--with-fdtarball=dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz --sysconfdir=$root/etc/dosemu"
 
diff --git a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc
index cc8ed6735..5aa48e97b 100644
--- a/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc
+++ b/package/rene/dosemu/dosemu.desc
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
 
 [L] LGPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.2.1
+[V] 1.2.2
 [P] X -?---5---9 176.900
 
-[D] 926431918 dosemu-1.2.1.tgz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dosemu/
-[D] 3426201797 dosemu-freedos-b9r4-bin.tgz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dosemu/
+[D] 519953460 dosemu-1.2.2.tgz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dosemu/
+[D] 3921055868 dosemu-freedos-b9r5-bin.tgz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dosemu/