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From: "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk AT yifan DOT net>
To: <Opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: DR DOS
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:40:40 -0800
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Hi:

I've been trying to install DR DOS in my computer, to coexist with other
operating systems (WinXP and Linux). However, I have my disk partitioned and
blank to install DR DOS first of all. I know it cannot boot from a logical
partition, so I installed it in a primary partition.

Problem is: the system (with only DR DOS installed) wouldn't boot. The only
thing I could find in a way of help is that there is possibly a conflict in
memory. I am not knowledgeable of how DOS (or any other OS for that matter)
handles memory, but I have tried to remove some entries in the config.sys
file which make me think handle memory and I have had no success.

My config.sys file is:

DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.EXE MULTI DPMI=ON FRAME=NONE
DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\DPMS.EXE
DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\SETVER.EXE
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
BREAK=OFF
BUFFERS=80
FILES=20
FCBS=4,4
FASTOPEN=512
LASTDRIVE=C
HISTORY=ON,512,ON
COUNTRY=3,,C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\VDISK.SYS 32736 128 64 /E
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRDOS\ANSI.SYS

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My autoexec.bat file is:

@ECHO Off
PATH C:\;C:\DRWDOS;C:\DRDOS
EMM386 PIC=ON
DPMI OFF
KEYB LA+
VERIFY OFF
PROMPT [DR-DOS] $P$G
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP%
SET DRDOSCFG=C:\DRDOS
MODE CON: CP PREP=((850) C:\DRDOS\EGA.CPI)
NLSFUNC C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
CHCP 437
SHARE /L:20
GRAFTABL 437
NWCACHE 7670 1024 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF
?"Enable Task Manager (Y/N) ?"TASKMGR

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By the way, I installed DR DOS making a DR DOS boot disk, and then running
the install.exe from the first installation disk, because the MSDOS 6.22
startup disks simply couldn't see the partition, and when I started with the
installation disk 1 the installation just was a fake, it didn't write
anything in the partition.

I would appreciate any help.

Teilhard.