From: thorin@ptd.net   
      
   Excellent!!! Looks like smartdrive and emm386 did the trick.   
      
   Its been so long since ive tweaked dos... i gues i missed them. :P   
      
   Thanks!   
   The board's up and running on 32mb now.  I'll try more once i do some   
   testing.   
      
   Thanks!   
      
      
   Jim wrote:   
   > I've found that (with mbbs 625 anyhow) that i can hit 64 megs max using   
   > DOS 7.  Heres the contents of the autoexec.bat and config.sys:   
   >   
   > @echo OFF   
   > PROMPT $p$g   
   > PATH C:\DOS;C:\BBSV6;C:\;C:\NC   
   > SET TEMP=C:\TEMP   
   > C:\DOS\SMARTDRV C 4096   
   > c:\3c90xpd.com /I=0x78   
   > cd \bbsv6   
   > C:\BBSV6\BTRIEVE /p:2048   
   > bbs go   
   >   
   >   
   > DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS   
   > DOS=HIGH,UMB   
   > DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE ON   
   > FILES=225   
   > BUFFERS=40   
   > LASTDRIVE=E   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Nathan:   
   >   
   >>So i came into some new hardware for my board.  Its currently on an   
   >   
   > old   
   >   
   >>486, with 16MB of ram.  The new machine is a PIII-667, with 256MB of   
   >   
   > ram.   
   >   
   >>I had this notion that i would install a bare bone linux install, and   
   >   
   >   
   >>vmware. Then install dos, and copy my board into the VM.   
   >>   
   >>So I set the whole thing up, and installed a new copy of WG2 into the   
   >   
   > vm   
   >   
   >>to test it out before i go live with it.   
   >>   
   >>Well, it seems that the software just doesnt like more than 16MB of   
   >   
   > ram.   
   >   
   >>  If i turn the memory in the VM up to anything higher, the board   
   >>crashes when i try to launch the board. The "Phar Lap's dos extender"   
   >   
   >   
   >>box pops up, tells me how much memory there is, and then throws some   
   >>memory addresses below it, and hangs.   
   >>   
   >>So is this just becasue i'm running in vmware? Or does the board not   
   >>like tons of memory?   
   >>   
   >>Thanks.   
      
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