Re: A cup of HELP... ;-)

[rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de (Heinrich Rebehn)]

Hi Nircea,

use HIMEM.SYS with the command line option /TESTMEM:OFF.
This will prevent it from testing memory and erasing the ram disk.
This is also mentioned in the mknbi-dos manpage.
HTH

Heinrich


>> 	Hi all,
>> 
>> 	I'm using for about 1 yr. Etherboot and works great, it saved me a lot
>> of HDs and troubles at the ISP I work. Thanks again to all who
>> contributed at it is really a great job and hope that NILO it will be a
>> great success also ( need testers ??, I'm here :)
>> Now the somehow unrelated to this list problem is that one of my
>> customers that has few shops interconected and some old DOS sales
>> program made in FoxPro (ugh..). In an atempt to make the network more
>> reliable he ask me to setup diskless workstations to boot DOS, connect
>> at a SAMBA server and start the application.
>> 	All well, I manage to do that BUT without loading HIMEM.SYS and of
>> course EMM386 that are necessary for the Fox program. When I build a
>> disk image with himem.sys loaded in config.sys the station boots but
>> after loading himem.sys (that loads OK with no error message) it
>> completely loose the ram disk and everything fails with "file not found
>> error" and " cannot find command.com". The dos is M$6.22 damn it :-(.
>> And without extended/expanded mem the whole thing is useless. :((((
>> 	Any advice/pointers/RTFMs from those of you who struggled with that
>> setup before will be GREATLY appreciated.
>> 
>> 		Mircea C.
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