Thank you, Dennis and TJ. I do indeed have 16 gigabytes of memory on my box. It is running a 6 core processor and "gaming motherboard" (that is MSI's description for it) which I've repurposed for server work. Specifically it is being transformed into a network attached storage server running FreeNAS 8.x.
To explain my interest in FreeDOS: I have a need to update a motherboard BIOS. Also, I some Dell PERC 5/I SAS controllers (they have the LSI chipset) which need a firmware update as described here: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showpost.php?p=12000789&postcount=88 I assume the person who did the update and is talking about a "boot floppy" means a "DOS boot floppy." Thanks Bob On 1/22/12 4:36 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmister<damag...@hyakushiki.net> wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney<dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of >>> 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to >>> applications. >>> >>> The box I have FreeDOS on has 256MB of RAM. I load HIMEM.SYS, and >>> have a disk cache and a ramdisk in XMS memory. >> Isn`t XMGR.SYS the xms memory manager under FreeDOS? Loading HIMEM.SYS >> seemed to cause a crash for me, although I could be wrong. > It's HIMEM.EXE here in FreeDOS 1.0. (I misspoke calling it HIMEM.SYS.) > >>>> The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. >>> Er, don't you mean 16 megabytes? >> 16GB as in gigabytes is certainly believable these days, on a 64-bit >> system. > Believable but unlikely, unless it's a server. The consumer systems > I've seen all have 3 - 8 GB. > ______ > Dennis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
