Re: [ProgSoc] MS-DOS bootdisk

[Nick <nick@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

Yeah,. Sure its for your little brother.

I'd have to have a look at home to be sure, but I *think* you need
himem.sys loaded, set DOS=HIGh, or UMB, so it loads it in the high memory
area. anything else, like drivers and that, use lh driver. I could be way
of, but again, i'm going of the top of my head. hope i'm right ;)


- Nick Hudson

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jay Banyer wrote:

> Hulo all,
> 
> I want to create a MS-DOS bootdisk so that I can play dos games on my
> win95 pc. I have a couple of question regarding this.
> 
> 1. How do I maximise the amount of free convential memory (ie the stuff
> under 640k)? You may assume that no drivers need to be loaded (ie
> autoexec.bat and config.sys are currently empty). From memory, there is
> about 580k free. I'm pretty sure this can be improved, but I don't know
> how.
> 
> 2. Can I install the normal ide cdrom driver (MSCDEX or something) on
> the boot disk? If so how, using as little conventional memory as
> possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> j.
> 
> ps - I'm actually doing this for my little brother. But I knew if I said
> that, someone would reply with "yeah, sure it's for your little brother"
> ;)
> 
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