Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:49:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DR-DOS 7.03 Not Recognizing All Memory In-Reply-To: <01c06d91$4ac53ea0$9955b7d4@default> Message-ID: X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Sorry I am so late in responding to this. On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Florian Xaver wrote: > [I originally wrote, concerning DR-DOS 7.03:] > > [...] My machine has 128MB RAM installed, and 'doozy recognizes all of > >it. However, when I boot DR-DOS, the MEM command only reports on 64MB. > >Is this a limitation of DR-DOS? > > Yes, but you can fix it. > > Write this before DEVICE=c:\drdos\emm386.exe [...] : > > DEVICE=c:\windows\himem.sys > > (don't use himem from Dr-DOS, use this one from Win98). > > Then you can use all memory! I am still learning DR-DOS in my spare time and admit that I have not yet been able to get all the way through the DOSBOOK. However, I did try what Florian suggested. When I boot, DR-DOS complains about having both HIMEM.SYS and EMM386, but unfortunately, the message goes off the top of the screen. The MEM command does report 128MB. But apparently not everything is happy with it. I installed my old copy of Mansfield's KEDIT, and it would only recognize 640KB. When I took out HIMEM.SYS (from Windows 98), KEDIT would use 16MB. On another matter, in my C:\DRDOS there is a file DRDOS.INI. I cannot find it listed in the DOSBOOK index as to what it is for and what it does. I did change the current color setting and that changed the color scheme in the DOSBOOK. But unless there is someting I am missing, I do not know what the other settings in DRDOS.INI are good for. Color thing that is significant for me. Back under MS-DOS 5, I used NDOS.COM from the Norton Utilities as my shell. NDOS allowed me to set the forground and background colors as well as the overscan border on a VGA monitor (i.e., for command level itself, not DOSBOOK). I liked this feature very much, as stark white on black is a little difficult for me. But again, I haven't found any way to set colors in DR-DOS. Thanks. -- Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Keyserver (0xF383C8F9) or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.smart.net/~bartlett