> with HIMEM.SYS 629,000 bytes free --> kernel does not load > without HIMEM.SYS 566,000 bytes free --> kernel loads fine > > This makes NO SENSE AT ALL! Why does loading fail when I have MORE > memory available? I am confused. Thank you for listening. Cheers! Probably there is a fragmentation issue that loadlin isn't smart enough to detect/handle where the *contiguous* memory is what matters? The DOS installer definitely has more problems than tomsrtbt itself, but at least I'm starting to know what the most likely workarounds are... -Tom
