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In mail (today) you write:

> src> Why are you even trying to run Desqview under that OS?
> src> Use MS-DOS 6.22 or DR-DOS 7.03.
>
>      Unlike MS-DOS 7.x+, MS-DOS 6.x and earlier doesn't work with
> FAT32 and disk space above 8Gb. AFAIK, DR-DOS 7.03 also doesn't
> support FAT32 - FAT32 supported only in DR-DOS 7.05 with extra driver
> DRFAT32.SYS. I don't know how DR-DOS works with disk space above 8Gb,
> also.

I bypassed all that ages ago. I got a copy of Netware 3.12 from someone
who no longer used Netware and set up a Netware server. One volume is a
pair of 9 gig SCSI drives "mirrored" (think "software RAID"), and my
DOS and windows boxes have no problems with it other than the DOS
systems not being able to report free space properly. 

It's got 2k clusters on that volume, btw. Netware handles all the
translation issues transparently.

Finding old copies of Netware isn't that hard, though setting it up is
rather more complex than setting up DOS or Windows. But it's great for
networking stuff runnimng several different OSes. 

>      FreeDOS works with FAT32 and 8Gb+, but I don't know how it works
> with QEMM and DV, though.

Why do you need more than 8 gig in a single partition? I have trouble
picturing a DOS application that needs that storage and can still run
decently.

Come to think of it, you could probably run MSLANMAN for DOS and
network to a Win32 box as yet another solution.

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