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 itself (and the real hard drive effectively did not exist to the
DOS).
With my RC5 USB BOOT stick (16 GByte) I have on it
C:\ ~ 512 M Byte (about 128 MByte free)
D:\ ~ 13 G Byte free
and from my simple test, FreeDOS RC5 appears to work for me (and is a great
improvement over my old USB BOOT stick).
I am trying to modify FDconfig.sys and FDauto.bat to allow a RAMdrive (say E:\)
but with no success.
I modified FDconfig.sys to have an additional entry after the line
SHELLHIGH = \FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM ...
adding
devicehigh=srdxms.sys
I modified FDauto.bat (near the end) to have an additional entry
C:\FREEDOS\BIN\srdisk E:8192 /s=256 (using % notation for C:\FREEDOS)
with the intention of having a 8 M Byte RAMdrive.
My attempt (for a RAM drive) was not successful resulting in the following
errors:-
....
Always on A20 method
devicehigh=srdisk.sys
UMBs unavailable
CONFIG.SYS error line 12
>>>devicehigh=srdisk.sys
^
Kernel: allocated 46 Disk buffers = 24472 bytes in HMA
and because of this (in FDauto.bat) when get to
C:\FREEDOS\BIN\srdisk.exe E:/8192 /s=256
Resizeable RAMdisk Formatter Version 2.09 ...
Fatal error No SRDISK driver installed
Aborted
Any suggestion on how to fix?
Running on an INTEL i3 (+ i7 Xeon)
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From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org>
Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2022 10:30 AM
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday, Feb
20
Hi everyone!
Just a reminder that our next virtual get-together is coming up THIS
SUNDAY, February 20.
Email is great, but sometimes it helps to put a face to a name, so we
aren't all just people behind an email address. We like to get
together once a month to get to know each other a little better. Our
next virtual get-together is Sunday, February 20 at 11am US/Central.
(Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time.) We
alternate topics each month, between "technical" and "social time."
For the February get-together, it's "technical."
I'll share the link here when the meeting starts. You can also check
the website. (I'd share the link now, but when spammers find the link
they start banging on the URL right away, and BlueJeans can mark that
meeting as "compromised" and take it down. So I'll need to wait until
the meeting is about to start to share the URL.)
In January, we used Zoom as a test. For February, we're back to using
BlueJeans. (Jim uses this for his consulting.) You can join from your
browser, but you may get better performance if you download the
desktop or mobile client. You can download the client from here:
https://www.bluejeans.com/downloads#desktop
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