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Re: Dos disk-image and emm386



>Hi
>
> How do i enable umb in a remote-loaded dos? Whenever i try to load
>emm386, it trashes the disk image and i have to give the 'three finger
>salute'. I'm using drdos 7.02 (from caldera). I can use himem.sys without
>problems...
> The machine is a 486 with 16mb ram, and using etherboot4.0pre7 16 bit
>(haven't tried any 32bit versions yet, as 3.2 couldnt detect my netcard)

You can only do this if you switch the current device to hard disk and
rmrd a: which lives in extended memory. emm386 uses extended memory,
hence it trashes the virtual floppy. Maybe you can switch the current
device to something else, I don't know.



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