OK, firstly, DEVICEHIGH makes no sense for EMM386, since nothing yet knows how to load stuff high at that point. Use DEVICE instead ...
Secondly, what is DEVIVEHIGH? Thirdly, why aren't you using LH to load your AUTOEXEC.BAT stuff high too? Finally, try "MEM /A /P", to see what gets loaded where, and how big it is once loaded. See also http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/47821.html for "minload", this will usually tell you how big something is _while_ loading. You can only load something high if there is a big enough space available for both these numbers. Anyway, hope that helps (sorry to be brief, no time for more). Joe. On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:10:14 -0500, ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > > I am having trouble running the DOS app; Arachne(arachne.cz) > > normally it would run with my 8MB RAM if I rem'ed out everything in my >autoexec.bat and devicehigh'ed everything in my config.sys > > however, now I want to run it(the latest version) on/from a zip disk >which means I *Must* be able to load my zip drive driver... so I added >more RAM to my old machine: I went from 8MB to my current 32MB of RAM yet >I still can't get Arachne to run with the zip drive driver(and other >drivers like for my CD-ROM) loaded in my autoexec.bat (: > > when I try to run Arachne after boot-up, I still get the Arachne "out of >conventional (low) memory 24,000KB" > > I thought by adding more RAM this would not happen > > I am running Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 or 7.03 so there is no mem sys command >or memmaker(however everything in config.sys is DEVICEHIGH already) > > (I can't now get MS-DOS to run completely again even if I use old copies >of autoexec.bat and config.sys (:) so I guess i'm stuck with DR-DOS > > >here's what I get when I type "mem" in DR-DOS: > >Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available for Programs > >Conventional 655,360 ( 640K ) 511,440 ( 499K ) >Upper 163,840 ( 160K ) 108,048 ( 106K ) >High 65,520 ( 64K ) 2,224 ( 2K ) >Extended 32,505,856 (31,744K ) 0 ( 0K ) >Extended via XMS ----------- 28,536,832 (27,868K ) > >Largest executable program: 464,400 ( 454K ) >Total Free DOS memory: 619,488 ( 605K ) > > > >my autoexec.bat: > >set SOUND16=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\ >SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4 >C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:DMSCD01 /M:12 >C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\SNDINIT.EXE /b >C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE >@ECHO Off >:lh novafont.com >PATH C:\DRDOS;C:\NWCLIENT;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\internet\TWSK20;C:\utilitie\D >IAMOND;C:\EMM386;C:\ >PROMPT $p$g >VERIFY OFF >SET TEMP=C:\DOS >IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP% >SET DRDOSCFG=C:\DRDOS >c:\utilitie\MOUSE\mouse >C:\DOS\SHARE /L:500 /f:5100 >NWCACHE 3396 1024 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF > > >TZ=EST7EDT > >C:\ZIPTOOLS\GUEST.EXE >rem c:\windows\win > >md c:\temp >set temp=c:\temp >rem set path=%path%;c:\arachne >rem arachne > >------ >should EMM386 be moved closer to the beginning of my PATH statement?? >should I make sure a DIR exists that is named and contains EMM386?? >------ > > >my config.sys: > >DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=OFF FRAME=NONE >DEVIVEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\DPMS.EXE >DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\SETVER.EXE >SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P >BREAK=OFF >REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS >REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS >REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS i=E000-EFFF >DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS >DOS=HIGH,UMB >FILES=40 > >BUFFERS=40 >FCBS=4,4 >DEVICEHIGH=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\CDSETUP.SYS /T:I /P:170 /I:15 >DEVICEHIGH=C:\utilitie\DIAMOND\TOSHIBA.SYS /D:DMSCD01 >LASTDRIVE=Z >HISTORY=ON,512,ON >COUNTRY=1,,C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS >STACKS=9,256 > > >please help! > >andy ><[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 > 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
