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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I hear FreeDOS does not yet have a usable CD-ROM driver.
>
> Not true.  They offer shsucdex.exe.  Someone other than the main
> developers wrote it, but it's distributed (and I believe now maintained)
> by them.
Hal said he had to use something like oakcdrom.sys with the shsucdex.exe 
but maybe he had some other problem.

> > I discovered that I have been running linux in 64MB RAM on a second
> > computer, also with 256MB RAM installed.  Would Ken's program for clearing
> > vectors keep this from happening?
>
> Isn't this related to DOS's addressable memory limit?  That's 64MB, as I'm
> recalling.
But on a computer with 4x32MB SIMMs linux recognizes 128MB without needing 
to add mem=128M.  Maybe each motherboard is different?  I will compare in 
case DIMMs need that and SIMMs do not.

Perhaps lilo recognizes the RAM but loadlin does not?

 >
> James
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