Do you not have a config.dos as well as an autoexec.dos?

If I'm not mistaken, autoexec.dos (and config.dos) is only used if you install Windows 98 over DOS 6.22, and you select "Previous version of MS-DOS" from the F8 boot menu. In that case autoexec.bat and config.sys get renamed to autoexec.win and config.win, and get replaced with the corresponding .dos files. You can of course easily check if you're in MS-DOS 6.22 with the "ver" command.

No config.dos, which might explain why the system froze when trying to boot into 6.22 (through the win 98 menu). I ended up disabling the Boot to Previous Version of DOS option because of this. I suppose I can make a config.dos file, but the Win 98 version of DOS works just as well from what I understand.

Okay then.

Tempest wrote:

If I restart in DOS mode it says I have 620K free and the largest free upper memory block is 0K (496 bytes)
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If I boot to command prompt only through the Win 98 menu it says I have 619K free and the largest free upper memory block is 7K

I would expect these to be the same and I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy here, unless you've got something in your dosstart.bat in your Windows directory (which would run when you restart in DOS mode).

Anyway, you can spend hours upon hours messing with this stuff if you're so inclined. If everything is working to your liking, then no, there's probably nothing you're missing or should change. I guess if you're not using doskey or ANSI graphics (which would mostly be really ancient text mode games), then there's no reason to keep doskey or ansi.sys around.

Actually I do use ANSI since I play text adventures.

I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything obvious or doing something stupid like trying to load EMM386 into high memory (I already fixed that error).

http://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm suggests that DOS=HIGH,UMB should be before the EMM386 line, but I have no idea if that really makes a difference.

Come to think of it, why are you using the versions from C:\DOS in your config.sys? The Windows versions ought to work slightly better.

You probably don't need setver either, unless you have something that explicitly requires it.

Just leftovers from my old config.sys file, I'll change them to C:\windows (or is it windows\system?)

Yeah I dont remember why I had setver in there, I think there was something weird like a game installer didn't understand what DOS 6.22 was so I was telling it I had DOS 5.0. But that would have been on my 486 box, I must have accidentally copied it over. I'll remove that, unless you think there are games out there that won't understand DOS 7.1 and need to be told that it's 6.22?

MEMMAKER usually works great. No idea whether that is available in Windows 98 SE.

Or REM to drop whatever is not needed.

I also like CT1600 and other early SBs to avoid Creative TSRs.

Tempest wrote:

Just leftovers from my old config.sys file, I'll change them to C:\windows (or is it windows\system?)

Either windows or windows\command , much like the other commands in your autoexec.bat .

I'll remove that, unless you think there are games out there that won't understand DOS 7.1 and need to be told that it's 6.22?

Oh, there probably are, but odds are you'll never encounter them. The only thing I've ever seen is the setup/install program for a certain package of Sound Blaster drivers.

This is my goto for configuring autoexec.bat & config.sys
http://www.mdgx.com/mem7.htm

chinny22 wrote:

This is my goto for configuring autoexec.bat & config.sys
http://www.mdgx.com/mem7.htm

Thanks, I'll give those a look.