This is directly on an ASUS PC with 2GB DDR3 RAM, not in a virtual PC.
The MEM command provides info:
Used memory 742kb
Free memory 2,095,898kb
Largest executable program size / free conventional 619kb
Free EMS memory 32Mb
Free XMS memory 2,095,279kb
Hence a small DOS programme should
Menu options 1 and 2 both fail to boot and result in an endless loop, as
noted earlier.
So 3 is the boot option I use. Options 4 and 5 also boot, but have the
same XMS problem as 3.
On 2025-03-03 13:18, tsie...@softcon.com wrote:
Are you selecting number 3 from the menu when it boots?
It l
Are you selecting number 3 from the menu when it boots?
It looks like that's the only option that loads all the drivers you need
for xms capabilities.
I don't have a machine here where I can test this configuration, but
just looking at the file you provide, selecting option number 3 should
do t
Are you selecting number 3 from the menu when it boots?
It looks like that's the only option that loads all the drivers you need
for xms capabilities.
I don't have a machine here where I can test this configuration, but
just looking at the file you provide, selecting option number 3 should
d
There's no xms memory, because you still haven't run an xms memory
manager from what I can tell. I'm not familiar with freedos, since I
have opendos and pts dos, both of which allow for multitasking, so I
typically use those instead of freedos, but as mentioned before, you
need to load a memor
Hi,
Thanks for educating me about EMS and XMS - I had not really thought
about the difference before.
I am now using xmgr.sys as XMS manager and fdconfig.sys reads :
SET DOSDIR=C:\FreeDOS
!COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FreeDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS
!LASTDRIVE=Z
!BUFFERS=20
!FILES=40
!MENUCOLOR=7,0
MENUDEFAU
Correction…
The next FreeDOS 1.4-RC3 will be released the day after tomorrow (March 1st).
The release candidate (like the monthly interim test builds) are usually
released on the 1st of the month.
The current release candidate can be download through the link on the Download
Page of the Free
Hi Jerome,
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I had not appreciated that the
USB version of FreeDOS 1.3 is not a live system!
Having followed your instructions carefully, I now have the following in
fdconfig.sys :
SET DOSDIR=C:\FREEDOS
!COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FREEDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS
!LAS
That's a safeguard too, and another way of booting, or swapping... *-*.
Go lucky guys. Keep my eyes on you.
Alicia Creus Fernández
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Mensaje original El 27/2/25 17:12, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user ha escrito:Hi Alicia,On Feb 27, 2025, at 10:
Hi Alicia,
> On Feb 27, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Alicia via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
> Hi, this is alicia:
> Thanks for the improvements, version 1.3 was enough for the case i solved.
>
You are welcome. :-)
> A week ago... or so i made again (more than 16 years ago i did the first
> one) kind
Hi, this is alicia:
Thanks for the improvements, version 1.3 was enough for the case i solved.
A week ago... or so i made again (more than 16 years ago i did the first one) kind of a "live-usb" full system... but i made a partition for the new installation, leaving the installer on the first a
Hi,
While the USB media is technically a running version of FreeDOS,
the USB install media is not configured to be used as a portable installation
of FreeDOS.
It is configured for the single purpose of installing the OS and not for
general usage.
If you do not want to install FreeDOS onto a
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 o
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.free
Hi there,
On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, david--- via Freedos-user 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".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_memory#eXtended_Memory_Specification_(XMS)
In
Hi,
You could try HimemX an extended memory manager for FreeDOS. It works
similarly to the EMM386.EXE in MS-DOS. You can download HimemX from
https://github.com/FDOS/HimemX
To use it, add the following lines to your `config.sys` file:
DEVICE=HIMEMX.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Also MemEater is a
Hi,
You could try HimemX an extended memory manager for FreeDOS. It works
similarly to the EMM386.EXE in MS-DOS. You can download HimemX from
https://github.com/FDOS/HimemX
To use it, add the following lines to your `config.sys` file:
DEVICE=HIMEMX.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Also MemEater is a small
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