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SUBJECT:
Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat
DATE:
2025-02-27 20:33
FROM:
da...@bp-asia.net
TO:
"Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS."
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Hi,
I am using FreeDOS 1.3 on a USB stick.
On booting up, it ask for language selection, (English), and then asks
whether to install to hard disk, (refused), so it returns to DOS. I
have made no amendments to either the fdconfig.sys or fdauto.bat files,
which are exactly as provided in the original FreeDOS 1.3 download zip.
Quoting the contents of fdconfig.sys :
!COUNTRY=001,858:\FREEDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS
!LASTDRIVE=Z
!BUFFERS=20
!FILES=40
DOS=HIGH
DOS=UMB
DOSDATA=UMB
DEVICE=\FREEDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE
SHELLHIGH=\FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM \FREEDOS\BIN /E:2048 /P=\FDAUTO.BAT
On 2025-02-27 18:57, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote:
Let's start with 2 quick questions: what version (what distribution) of
FreeDOS did you install, and what do you see first when FreeDOS starts
up on the computer?
I hope you're running FreeDOS 1.3 .. or maybe the release candidate for
FreeDOS 1.4. Both of these are available from the www.freedos.org [1]
website.
Both of these versions show a menu when FreeDOS starts up. It's
important to know what option you're selecting in that menu, because
XMS support will be provided by one of those options.
There should be a FDCONFIG.SYS file that comes with FreeDOS. Can you
look in this file? Is it a long file, or a short one, or is it empty?
Did you edit this file since installing FreeDOS?
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 11:59 PM david--- via Freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
I am new to FreeDOS and have run into a problem whereby some
traditional MSDOS programs will not run, complaining about "XMS
allocation error".
In MSDOS the solution is an additional line in config.sys reading
"device=emm386.exe ram", but there does not appear to be a emm386.exe
equivalent in FreeDOS. I would very much appreciate an explanation,
please, about how to get around this problem.
Thank you
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