Jim: Thanks! I think that using such a boot floppy is really the only way to go if you're stuck using a WinNT, Win2k, or WinXP OS. I'm still battling with the decision to take Win2K off of my Printer Server, and replace it with Win98! I've been running Fractint in a Dos box on one of my other Win98 machines, and after all the various tweaks to the memory handling that have been suggested by members of this e-group, I'm getting great results running Fractint under Win98 in a Dos Box. As I've said before, I think that loading Fractint into memory in a ramdrive like a TSR is just too "piss elegant" for words! I want to try and see if I can tweak and kludge what's in your autoexec.bat and config.sys files to work with DOS 7 which is what get's created by Win98 as a setup/rescue disk. Once the floppy has been created by Win98, all I have to do is edit and comment out the autoexec.bat and config.sys what I need and don't need. Has anyone else out there made such a Fractint boot floppy from the Win98 Dos 7 Boot Floppy? Thanks for all the help! Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Muth" <jamth@mindspring.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Loading FRACTINT into DOS The Ultimate Fractint Boot Disk
At 10:53 AM 11/4/02 -0500, Tony Parker wrote:
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Would you be willing to post your autoexec.bat, setramd.bat, msdos.sys and config.sys files to show us how you loaded Fractint into the RAMDRIVE?
Here are the config.sys and autoexec.bat files I use with my dedicated Fractint machine. I have also included the directory of all files on the DOS-6.22 boot disk, which on start-up takes the machine directly into the Fractint program, with 634,144 bytes of conventional memory free. The last line in the autoexec.bat file runs a file named fr.bat, which in turn runs fractint.exe. (It is simpler and faster to type <fr> than to type <fractint>.) I do not use the setramd.bat or msdos.sys files. I also find that running command.com from a ramdrive speeds up things even more.
CONFIG.SYS FILE
device=himem.sys/testmem:off dos=high,umb fcbs=20,0 files=40 buffers=20,0 numlock=off switches=/f stacks=0,0 device=emm386.exe noems devicehigh=mouse.sys devicehigh=ansi.sys devicehigh=ramdrive.sys 8000 /e devicehigh=ramdrive.sys 64 /e
AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE
@echo off prompt=$P$G set dircmd=/o:d set comspec=E:\command.com smartdrv.exe /x path C:\FIRST;C:\ mode con rate=32 delay=1 copy A:\command.com E:\ copy C:\fr\*.* D:\ ;this line loads Fractint into the ramdrive cls D:\ del *.gif del *.par del *.map fr ;this line starts Fractint from the ramdrive
DIRECTORY OF THE DOS-6.22 BOOT DISK
command.com config.sys himem.sys emm386.exe mouse.sys ansi.sys smartdrv.exe ramdrive.sys mode.com diskcomp.com diskcopy.com autoexec.bat
Jim M.
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