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Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS

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"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> wrote in message
news:XnsA12B8CCB2F340auricauricauricauric@88.198.244.100...
> Rod Pemberton wrote:
>
> > I pasted this DEVICE= line from my MS-DOS CONFIG.SYS into
> > FreeDOS' CONFIG.SYS (v1.1):
> >
> >  DEVICE=HIMEMX.EXE/MAX=2097152/NUMHANDLES=128/METHOD:PORT92
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > It still flagged the '=' sign as an error.
> >
> > After spending a half-hour trying every combination of upper-
> > and lower-case "DEVICE=", "HIMEMX.EXE", and the path, I
> > found that FreeDOS needs a space between HIMEMX.EXE
> > and it's parameters.
> >
> > [snip]
>
> Bearing in mind that I have roughly zero experience with
> FreeDOS...
>
> Is HIMEMX.EXE in the root directory? (It should be in
> C:\FDOS\BIN, not C:\.)
> If it's not, then you should pass the full path, e.g.:
>

Yes.  The drive is blank, except for a handful of files.  There
are no directories.

I recently re-installed an old IDE HD (Hard Drive) as my primary
master.  My system normally boots from a secondary master via BIOS
settings which is a SATA SDD (Solid State Drive).  I
re-partitioned and re-formatted the old IDE. Then, I sys'd it and
copied files to it.  Next, I used the modern BBS menu (Bios Boot
Spec.) to select the primary master, the old IDE, to boot.  I did
this in order to test the configuration of files, CONFIG.SYS, and
AUTOEXEC.BAT, etc using the FreeDOS command.com and kernal, before
making a bootable floppy image.  Normally, I just create an boot
floppy using MS-DOS files, but I decided to see if there was
enough system files and utilities from FreeDOS and other sources
to make a boot disk with my set of preferred files.  Once I like
it, I'll format, sys, and copy the files to an actual floppy.
Finally, I'll use John Fine's partcopy to create a floppy image.
It's much easier to use than rawread/rawrite or Linux 'dd'
command.  Floppy disk drives are becoming more scarce.  At some
point, I should probably create a bootable DOS CD or learn how to
use a ramdisk or virtual disk for creating floppy boot images...

>   DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE /switches
>
> In VMware, with the full path and *no* switches, I get no error.

Odd.  Ok.

> With it entered exactly as you have it, I get the same error,
> with or without the full path specified.

Good.

> With the full path specified and the switches spaced out
> as mentioned by Sjouke Burry:
>
>   DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE /MAX=2097152
>              /NUMHANDLES=128 /METHOD:PORT92
>
> ...it works fine.

Yes.

However, I just needed one space at the end of HIMEMX.EXE.


Rod Pemberton

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FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-15 23:26 -0500
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS Sjouke Burry <s@b> - 2012-12-16 08:36 +0000
    Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> - 2012-12-16 05:35 -0500
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS Sjouke Burry <s@b> - 2012-12-16 17:03 +0000
        Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-12-16 20:50 +0000
        Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> - 2012-12-16 20:42 -0500
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-16 16:33 -0500
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2012-12-16 19:04 +0100
    Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-16 16:32 -0500
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2012-12-17 00:00 +0100
      Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2012-12-18 15:30 +0000
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-12-16 20:50 +0000
    Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-12-16 16:33 -0500
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2012-12-16 21:17 +0000
  Re: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2012-12-18 15:35 +0000

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