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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: dlormand AT aztecfreenet.org, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Yes, I do have some problems with bl
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:24:38 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 24 May 2004, DAVID L. ORMAND wrote:

> >> What does FreeDOS do better than the latest free version
> >> of DR-DOS? Does its himem.sys conflict with Xvesa?
> >
> >It appears that something in FreeDOS conflicts with Xvesa
> >(because Xvesa doesn't work for Jeff).
>
> I'm booting BL3 and X off a FreeDOS system. Works fine. May
> be just a little out of date, but I wouldn't have expected
> an slightly old kernel to affect X.

Are you saying you boot BL3 with loadlin from Freedos and Xvesa works
fine? If so, do you have to abort Freedos' memory management stuff (like
you have to under M$DOS) before running loadlin? Or does Xvesa work fine
in your setup even when running loadlin from just a regular Freedos
session?

Thanks, James




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