Re: [Freedos-user] Problem after updating to FreeDOS 1.1 with writing of environment variables.

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Gillespie
* NOEMS (disables EMS almost 100%, and its pageframe entirely) * I=B000-B7FF (use Monochrome area, might work, or not) * I=TEST (test for additional UMBs) * X=TEST (test for additional UMBs) Thanks, done this and it's freed up some more mem with no adverse side effects so far. It's a

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem after updating to FreeDOS 1.1 with writing of environment variables.

2012-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mark, strange that you only 470k free... Problem is, now the ghost process is crashing with a read error from the DVD, which I know don't contain any errors. Could this be related to me using UIDE.SYS rather than our previous driver (oakcdrom.sys)? Oakcdrom sounds very outdated and

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem after updating to FreeDOS 1.1 with writing of environment variables.

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Gillespie
We ran out of time on this, and the oakcdrom.sys worked for us (and had a good track record of working), Our memory was being used by NTFSDOS, which we needed to use, and can't be unloaded, I'm guessing where that's the missing chunk has gone. RDisk worked very well and allowed us to specify a