From: sho AT tannis DOT sho DOT net (Sho Nakagama) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OpenDOS group??? etc... Date: 29 Jan 1997 11:27:55 GMT Organization: Sho's World Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <32eefd6e DOT 3014064 AT news DOT okstate DOT edu> Reply-To: sho AT tannis DOT sho DOT net NNTP-Posting-Host: village.ios.com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp In article <32eefd6e DOT 3014064 AT news DOT okstate DOT edu>, Paul J. Thompson wrote: >I want to put OpenDOS on my computer but when I tried today, >everything just went to heck... I am running a 386 with 4 mb ram and >an EGA monitor. It is currently running PC-DOS 7.0 and win3.11 for wg >with 4dos as primary shell. I hav a direct T1 connect and am running >Novell Netware and LAN. When I installed OpenDOS, my computer >suddenly would not use UMB, load stuff high from the autoexec, the >tcpip stack was having some fatal error, and Taskmgr was just giving >me hell... OK, well anyway if you mean loading drivers via autoexec.bat into upper memory, you might have to enable it (well you had to in DRDOS). LAN? Do you mean Novell Lan Workplace for DOS? In that case, (I've only used 4.2 along with Netware 3.11 and PN 1.0) tcpip.exe might need an update. I remember the first time (when I was still using 4.1b) it would die under Novell DOS> > >I want to propose the creation of a comp.os.opendos newsgroup... > Probably would be a good idea >how are they started? Well, assuming you want a fast track, you might try sending a create message out for alt.os.dos.caldera (so it'll go with the linux group). Else, well, the quality of discussion in the news.* groups is...scary -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Imagine, a cloth such conviction to keep you warm in a winter storm Imagine darkness in the day and nighttime simply falls away I'm just a time machine, not young, not old I'm about halfway between a sleep and a sleep" --------------------------------------------------------------------- GBH(tm) [your secret society ad here] KoX ARSCC