On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Steven C. Darnold wrote: > Since the larger kernel by itself is enough to raise the > 8mb RAM requirement, I might as well go all the way to 12mb, > which will allow for a slighty larger ramdisk. Of course, > once I get down to it, I may find that I can achieve a big > jump in functionality (eg. GUI) by going to 16mb.
I gather that there would be an option to pick the size of the ramdisk, based on equipment, and living with what functionality could fit it. > There is, however, one cloud on the horizon. As more and > more win9x machines are "upgraded" to winXP, there are fewer > and fewer users who can execute loadlin.exe. How about executing loadlin.exe using a bootable floppy? Perhaps using an autoexec.bat file. You could pick a compact DOS - say 3.30 - or a free version. (Just to aviod Bill's lawyers. ;-) Distribute the files appropriately, and include a pause or two to swap floppies, and you could probably fit everything on even 360 K floppies. That might be useful on some older systems - although I don't expect to be running it on my XT. :-( If you use less than 1.2 M on each floppy image, it could be written on either 1.2 or 1.44 M floppies, which might be handy. Boyd Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
