Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:23:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
cc: DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Using a RAMDISK setup
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Brett Porter wrote:

> If anyone has successfully set up a RAMDISK with 8Mb ( or even 16Mb, I am
> thinking of upgrading soon),

For 16MB, use the configuration suggested by the FAQ (section 3.9).

> please send me a copy of your config.sys and
> autoexec.bat (maybe just a portion of it that is relevant to DJGPP
> setup)

A better way is to post the relevant parts of your system
configuration files here.  You might hear advice that will allow you
to free more RAM that way.

A listing of the current memory occupants ("mem /c > mem.lst") would
be also nice.

> Also, are you just using RAMDISK.SYS from MSDOS, or are there some (free)
> ones I can get off the internet? I have Win95 :(, which doesn't have
> RAMDISK.SYS, but I do have MSDOS 6.22 at home (not here at uni.), just be a
> while before I can get it.

First, there's a RAMDISK for W95, if you need that.  I don't remember
the details, but search the DJGPP mail archives: somebody posted the
info here a few months ago.

For DOS, I recommend SRDisk.  It's resizable (i.e., you can change its
size without rebooting).

  SimTel.NET:/pub/simtelnet/msdos/ramdisk/srdskNNN.zip.