Re: [Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal)

2022-02-22 Thread richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
tended (AT/286/386) Memory, von BIOS berichtet. 5 435k Bytes XMS 3.50 (3.52) Speicher: 5 436k belegt + 65 535k frei. DOS in HMA. Richard From: Eric Auer Sent: Monday, 21 February 2022 5:52 AM To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal)

2022-02-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Richard, as you are interested in having extremely large RAMDISKs: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HimemSX might be interesting for you, because it can use RAM beyond the first 4 GB. Normal HIMEM versions can only use your first 4 GB, and between a few 100 MB and more than a gigabyte

Re: [Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal)

2022-02-19 Thread richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
little smarter" as per your suggestion (thanks for the tip). Richard From: Eric Auer Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2022 7:43 PM To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal) Hi! > SHELLHIGH = \FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.CO

Re: [Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal)

2022-02-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! SHELLHIGH = \FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM ... devicehigh=srdxms.sys If you have not EMM386-style driver loaded, then you should not use ...HIGH style commands. Also, you write that autoexec uses C:\FREEDOS\BIN\srdisk E:8192 /s=256 (using % notation for C:\FREEDOS) So I expect this "s

Re: [Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal)

2022-02-17 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, First, if you load the driver in the FDCONFIG.SYS you need to provide the full path to the driver. If you remove the line you have added to that file, then you can simply add this to the end of the FDAUTO.BAT or even create a separate batch file to only start the RAM disk when needed. ( as

[Freedos-devel] RAMdrive install problem (on bare metal)

2022-02-16 Thread richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
I am new to FreeDOS and trying to convert over to RC5 from a bare metal USB BOOT disk that does not use any FreeDOS material. With my old setup, I successfully created two RAM drives (D:\ and E:\) of approximately 1.3 G Byte and 128 M Byte respectively. The C:\ drive was just the USB stick itse